Celebrating the Beautiful World of Traditional and Continuing Anglicanism
Monday, February 14, 2005
Moving
I have moved recently and have not been able to post much. My dsl service should be up in about a week and a half, so I will be posting more in a few weeks. This weekend I went to NYC with my girlfriend. We worshipped at Church of the Transfiguration, an historically anglo-catholic parish in lower Manhattan. The priests' ceremonial was way off. I was quite shocked. They chanted the litany, which was nice, but it was all downhill from there. It did not follow ritual notes at all. The deacon ad subdeacon didn't hold up the priest's chasuble while he censed the altar; the priest didn't wear a cope during the first part of the mmass; thhey didn't wear maniples; they didn't do the introit, gradual, etc. It was quite out of the ordinary. They were basically '79 BCP anglo-catholics. We in the various anglo-catholic continuing churches do it the old way - a full missal mass straight out of ritual notes. Are there any episcopal parishes that still do it that way? I think Ascension and St. Agnes in Washington DC does. Does anyone else know of any?