More adventures in Episcopalianism

[femmequixotic]

• It is not a good idea to forget to put all the priest's patens (the glass plates that hold consecrated wafers during Eucharist) on the altar before service. One ends up having priests and lay eucharistic ministers freaking out three minutes into Eucharist with good reason since, hi, no place to put the wafers to be distributed. (I feel the distinct

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[catrinella]

I was confronted by this on Sunday. Our parish had the great blessing, this past spring, of ordaining our youth minister, who happened to be one of New Hampshire's seminarians. He wanted very much to be ordained in our church, and Gene Robinson presided (our archbishop did vote to confirm, and we are probably the rainbowiest parish in the diocese). It was quite possibly the holiest experience I have ever had, and I'd post the pic of me with Gene++ except OMG I look awful in it, partially because I started to weep when he blessed me

[cordelia_v]

Very late here, since I'm still sorting through some of the backlog on my flist from my vacation, but I wanted to say that the prayers of the faithful (as we call it, among the R.C.s) is also one of my favorite parts of the Mass. And for the same reasons that you mention here.