tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post1655229196497260205..comments2023-09-19T05:03:19.109-07:00Comments on Scelata: Sad Situation in GeorgiaScelatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674226359189392827noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-44907202850962765282009-08-08T14:21:11.195-07:002009-08-08T14:21:11.195-07:00Um, a clarification...did not leave my husband beh...Um, a clarification...did not leave my husband behind, he's still here, he just goes to church there and the reasons have everything to do with a musician's deep need for texts and music worthy of God... I understand, I have just chosen to, as Aris put it one day... help "bail the Barque" myself rather than complain and jump ship.Carleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07682455163923165469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-80260128759185724012009-08-08T14:19:08.911-07:002009-08-08T14:19:08.911-07:00The journey has been the best, even at its most pr...The journey has been the best, even at its most profound moments of personal sacrifice of will and pride and stupid I THINK I KNOW MORE THAN you do, which I DON'T, ever. Generally. <br /><br />Humility came at a price, and is an ongoing challenge. The Catholic Church has to be approached with the idea that if something is God's will to be changed about it, you're in for at least a five hundred year wait, so...you'll probably need to pack some sandwiches when you go camp out with your picket signs at the Vatican.<br /><br />I feel sad often for my good friends (and husband, mind you, Catholic, but SINGING at the Episcopal Cathedral because he can't STAND the music at any Catholic Church here in town) who I left behind.Carleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07682455163923165469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-87735327936274860332009-08-07T06:36:00.232-07:002009-08-07T06:36:00.232-07:00"orthodoxy is not going to save the Episcopal..."orthodoxy is not going to save the Episcopal church. Schism won't destroy it."<br /><br />Since schism begat it, eh?<br /><br />"EX-Episcopalian here.... Thank you God, for getting me the heck out of there before I became a priest."<br /><br />I didn't know you were a convert. Isn't it interesting that so much of the "juice" in the Church comes from converts?<br />I had designs on being a priest, myself.<br />I am a cradle Catholic, but had a conversion experience when it suddenly hit me that much wiser, much holier men and women had given literally <i>lifetimes</i> of thought to the question of the proper matter for the Sacrament of Holy Orders, and if the Church though I wasn't it, it required an obscene amount of pride to disagree.<br /><br />And I have an obscene amount of pride.<br />But having made an effort of the will to submit to what the Church teaches, even if I didn't understand it, (<i>still</i> don't "understand" it,) opened up so much to me, and opened me to so much...<br /><br />(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)Scelatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674226359189392827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-69406599572159388362009-08-07T06:01:38.357-07:002009-08-07T06:01:38.357-07:00EX-Episcopalian here. I'm just going to shake...EX-Episcopalian here. I'm just going to shake my head at this news, again. The idea that there are shadow congregations and litigation pending sends me back to our own Diocese's bizarro meltdowns in the 90's. Thank you God, for getting me the heck out of there before I became a priest.<br /><br />And, IMO, orthodoxy is not going to save the Episcopal church. Schism won't destroy it. There will always be those who want to do as they please while professing to do as He wants, and they will always need a structure in which to practice their willful choices.<br /><br />"splendor without cost, supplication without surrender." (I quote myself, too, sometimes, it seems...) ;)Carleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07682455163923165469noreply@blogger.com