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Recent content by Trainlady

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    How involved are you?

    Nice! I wish I could hear you. I played in elementary school and jr. high--wasn't that good at it.
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    How involved are you?

    I'm a lay reader, serve on the vestry, and most recently, I joined the altar guild. We are a small parish. Didn't really want to do that last one--thought that was a job for the "old ladies" (I'm "only 54!") but we've lost a number of older parishioners in the past two years, and the altar...
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    Sunday Attendance

    UKChristian, not to hijack the thread, but we always hear over here in the colonies that there is very little faith or church attendance in England. Yet here you are. Is it true for the most part that most people in England no longer believe in God and that the churches have fallen into disuse?
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    9/11 Family Members Petition Obama to Watch PBS Documentary on Evidence of Demolition

    The question is why do only a paltry 1700 architects and engineers (and I went through the list when it was 1400--they really aren't all architects and engineers, and knowing a few hundred engineers and architects who worked at the WTC before 9/11, were there on 9/11, were on the pile after 9/11...
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    Sunday Attendance

    If I'm recalling this correctly from my studies when I became Episcopalian, the technical answer is that you must attend three times a year.
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    Question regarding The Eucharist

    I feel that I am a guest in their church. The RCC's statement that other Christians are welcome to worship with them but are asked not to take communion is printed in thier missal, and I feel it is disrespectful to deceive, as you put it, especially when they went to the effort to politely state...
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    Question regarding The Eucharist

    I had this conversation with a friend yesterday. She will take Communion in a Catholic Church, and I do not. I respect their POV. She feels that God overrules any Church's conditions.
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    Preparation for communion?

    I think this is a good summary. Personally, I try to clear my thoughts and sincerely ask for Christ's mercy over what "I have done and what I have left undone". I think the whole service prior serves to prepare one to receive communion.
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    Question regarding The Eucharist

    In my church all baptized Christians are invited.
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    low church -high church?

    I grew up in the Reformed Church and became an Episcopalian at 35. Part of the reason was the ritual, which was lacking (for me, who loves ritual) in the Reformed Church. Communion was given four or five times a year, and it was a tray of Wonder Bread cubes passed through the pews along with a...
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    What's with all the conspiracy theories?

    I think it's pretty clear that you have not been to the NY/NJ metropolitan area in general or the WTC in particular.
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    What's with all the conspiracy theories?

    It seems to me that a big problem is that you rely so much on the Internet being more accurate a source than it might be. A long-time coworker by the name of Deborah (Debbie) Merrick lived in upper Manhattan and worked in one of our Jersey City offices. She was in charge of the petty cash...
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    What's with all the conspiracy theories?

    Curious as to how many you think died. I have wondered, when I see similar claims; e.g., that the victims were all falsified/composite photographs, etc., how those who want this to be the case therefore explain the logistics of how such a ruse is pulled off. For example--I live in New...
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    What's with all the conspiracy theories?

    Just FYI, when looking up an article for another forum on which I participate, I thought of this thread after reading the first paragraph. Do American Indians also have such good reason to fabricate stories to protect the US government that they throw in false little details into seemingly...
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    Any thoughts on the Chaplet of St Michael?

    I had never heard of it until now. Thank you for sharing.