Been staying at St Stephen's House - a theological college for the CofE and part of Oxford University. Hadn't really thought about it but remembered when I arrived that it's seriously catholic. They talk about Popes a lot. Morning and Evening Prayer were "quaint". I counted 9 different pages to find per service to do all the psalms, collects etc. in what was actually standard Common Worship. I just read the feed off the website which puts all the text in the right place every day for you. (See here)
I reckon I spent 20-25% of morning prayer simply looking things up before I could actually start reading the bit I was supposed to be.
I get confused nowadays by having to find a board in a church which has a list of numbers. Then every time You sing you have to look up the hymn with that number in one of the books that came with the other books and papers. How quaint.
Psalms 71:1
Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent
In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
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At last I can comment - well I can if your fiddling has worked anyway.
ReplyDeleteIf God likes diversity (and I agree with your Tuesday comment that he does) do you think he might be a little sad at your unreasoning hatred of paper?!
No, I think God is right with me in disliking the way we chop down trees and pulp them into thin sheets which we then treat as disposable and worthless and throw away without a second thought.
ReplyDeleteUnreasoning? No, got it all worked out!
...though not on paper, of course.
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