But God doesn't care how we worship Him!

Or how we dress when we go to church...
Anyway, worship is more authentic if I make the rituals up myself, isn't it?
In today's Office of Readings, we have this from Leviticus:
The Lord spoke to Moses; he said:
‘Take Aaron, his sons with him, and the vestments, and the chrism, the bull for the sacrifice for sin, the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread. Then call the whole community together at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.’
Moses followed the orders of the Lord; the community gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and Moses said to them, ‘This is what the Lord has ordered to be done’.
He made Aaron and his sons come forward, and washed them with water.
He put the tunic on him, passed the girdle round his waist, dressed him in the robe and put the ephod on him. Then he put round his waist the woven band of the ephod with which he clothed him.
He put the pectoral on him, and placed the Urim and Thummim in it.
He put the turban on his head, with the golden plate on the front; this is the sacred diadem as the Lord prescribed it to Moses.
Then Moses took the chrism and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, to consecrate them. He sprinkled the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and its furnishing, the basin and its stand, to consecrate them. Then he poured the chrism on Aaron’s head, consecrating him by unction.
Then Moses made Aaron’s sons come forward; he put the tunics on them, passed the girdles round their waists and put on their head-dress, as the Lord had ordered Moses.
Then he had the bull for the sacrifice for sin brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the victim’s head and Moses immolated it. Then he took the blood and with his finger put some of it on the horns round the altar, to take away its sin. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar, which he consecrated by performing the rite of atonement over it. Then he took all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty mass which is over the liver, the two kidneys and their fat; and he burnt them all on the altar. The bull’s skin, its flesh and its dung he burnt outside the camp, as the Lord had ordered Moses.
Then Aaron raised his hands towards the people and blessed them. Having thus performed the sacrifice for sin, the holocaust and the communion sacrifice, he came down and entered the Tent of Meeting with Moses.
Then they came out together to bless the people and the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole people – a flame leaped forth from before the Lord and consumed the holocaust and the fat that was on the altar.
At this sight the people shouted for joy and fell on their faces.

But then a liturgist spoke thusly:
how can we make this more meaningful for us?
That color ephod doesn't do anything for me, let's use a different one, blue maybe.
Blood? What kind of example does that set?
Yes, I know what Moses said, but who put him in charge?
Aaron's daughters' self-esteem will suffer if we go through with this this way.
Well, all right, you can preside, but I'll stand over here and perform this ceremony I have written myself. What, seven is some kind of magic number? Once is plenty. Shouldn't there be some kind of rite of enrollment for Aaron's sons? Dung? that's disgusting! It's not as if God will mind if I substitute some braziers of incense, and let's add a procession in which we can kinda "dance" them in. Right, God told you to make that diadem... oh. Well, even if He did, wouldn't this hat I've designed be better? The Tent of Meeting? What are you, a rubricist? EVERY place is a holy place. And if only He'd thought of it, I'm sure He would have realized how much more effective it would be to spread all this Rite-y goodness out, over a few days, first we'll have what we'll call the Rite of Oil, and then a few days later the Rite of Blood, and then the Rite of Burning.... oh wait the holocaust might become odiferous, you're right. We'd better form a commission to look into appointing a committee to select a panel to vote for a focus group to study the implementation of a program to plan a series of listening sessions, where we can break into small discussion groups and share what God's instructions to Moses mean to us. Now, who will be the facilitator?
(And the IIPs* muttered, Oh, great..... ANOTHER forty years in the desert!)

(IsraelitesInthePews)