[Right Cal Gal]

I tell you, Catholics were getting to be so Protestant that I was ready to join the Episcopalians just so my services would be a little more Roman!

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, it wasn't quite that simple. You had to find a 'high' church that wasn't evangelical or 'low'. Some Piskie services are the next thing to holy rollers, some are just white bread Protestant. It all depends.

Our old ECUSA diocese was traditionally 'low', there were a couple of 'high' parishes, and we were in both of them at one time or another. The highest was Our Saviour, Virginia-Highlands -- and it was so ultramontane it made Smoky Mary's in New York City look low. The rector preached on Purgatory one Easter and threw my then-Methodist husband for a loop! (of course now he's Catholic, you never know what's going to happen in 30 years.)