What do you see as the distinction between these two ideas?

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Got to introduce a new family to folks at coffee hour, and someone even roped them into helping to clean up from the advent wreath workshop, so odds are they’ll be on the vestry next year!

(He said jokingly)

Seconding what’s been said about just soaking it up. Don’t stress about doing everything “right”. Follow along with what you see the folks around you doing. Try not to get too discouraged if it feels uncomfortable; everyone was new at one point, and it takes time for your bones to learn the liturgy

Me every time: “from the womb of WHAT? What womb??? There’s no womb for them to burst out of!?!”

Really like this guy’s reccordings. Not all the 1979 canticles, but most of them. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Recently discovered a whole playlist of psalms from St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter over on YouTube and it’s been delightful for this very purpose

You shouldn’t have to wait for it, but I assure you that Pastoral Theology next semester will be a vast improvement.

Most of the readings we were either so common sensical as to be almost insulting, or based in mid 19th century pseudoscience.

This absolutely reflects my experience as well. There’s gotta be a better way of teaching seminarians pastoral care than voyeuristically throwing them into people’s suffering to see “what that brings up for you”.

Coincidentally, my sending parish had ribbons in all their BCPs. Wasn’t until I visited another parish that I realized that wasn’t the norm

Always forgetting ⚓️

First mass flying solo. Got to preach how incomprehensible worship is in a culture that values only efficiency and quantifiable results. Almost broke as the choir sang Seek Ye First while I was distributing communion

Thrilled to be getting my new parish office put together.