Well, the Weekend from Hell is over. I finished my History mid-term papers; the second paper didn't take as long as the first. I ended up writing four and a half pages for each one, instead of the three and a half I expected.
My priest was on vacation this weekend, and we had a visiting priest who was pretty bad. He was very theatrical; everything was done with a flourish and with dramatic pauses. His homily went on for a tremendous amount of time in its unending search for a point. He also altered and added a lot of words to the liturgy, including the infamous "The celebration is over, let us go now to serve God and one another" with dramatic pauses, of course. We said the Apostle's Creed instead of the Nicene Creed. Surely that's not something done specially for Lent? Which hasn't even started yet, after all. And he left out the line about believing in "the forgiveness of sins." Maybe that part was just a matter of his eye skipping over the line. ::: Tries really hard to give him the benefit of the doubt, even though the Apostle's Creed is a prayer even little kids can lisp by heart :::
He was quite charismatic and seemed very friendly, however. A nice guy, but he needs to get it together a bit better. You could feel that the congregation was disconcerted when he changed the words; our parish priest sticks to the program. In particular the bit about the Creed caused confusion; everyone was paging through the missal trying to figure out what was going on. Ahk. I give him a 5 on the Heterodoxy Scale, a marvelous system of my own invention with 0 being the Pope and 10 being Call to Action type people ;)
Sunday, February 06, 2005
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Interesting... Maybe they told him the wrong Rite to do or something? Always weird when strange priests show up and start messin' with the line-up. Bah.
ReplyDeleteBut what's a step worse is when they try and sing the service and they REALLY can't... (wince) Lol!
Hetrodoxy scale... Me likey... ;)
Speaking of which, Father Doc went through the whole what's going down with the Anglican Primates at the end of the month in Belfast thing at Adult Ed today, and it turns out America/Canada might become a new provence in time for my birthday- creating a possible ACUSA (Anglican Church of the United States of America)... And making ECUSA (Episcopal Church of the United States of America) no longer a recognized Anglican Communion organization or something complicated.
All down to Cantebary's call, I guess. Nerve raking time to be Anglican, but it's a good thing one way or the other (apparently) since if there is a split we go with Africa and Asia, not crazy gay bishop liberal peoples.
Congrats on getting through the Dark Age essays in one piece! :)
-Shan
Kudos for putting up with the new guy. He probably thinks the Mass is some kind "show" and the altar is a "stage" on which he, the "actor" must "preform".
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