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Ohhh, the kids thing. It's hard everywhere.
In my last parish I ended up buying a big icon of Christ blessing the children and hanging it so that whenever people turned around to frown at noisy kids they'd be eyeballing the icon. I think it actually made a difference!
It's quiet in here...
Has been such a busy day and I feel like I've got nothing of substance done (probably not true, of course, but ministry is hard to measure sometimes).
Daydreaming about the idea of working overseas (preferably somewhere warmer). They're looking for a cleric to be chaplain in Dubai. I'm not senior enough, but I'd bet it would be warmer than here. A girl can dream!
IIRC there are exactly 3 Buddhist chaplains in the United States military, but the US does not require chaplains to undergo weapons training.I couldn't be a military chaplain. It's the one thing I told the archbishop straight up I wouldn't do. Too much of a pacifist; I'd be trying to talk them all into quitting!
I have a friend who is a Buddhist monk, and he was explaining to me that there are no Buddhist military chaplains (in Australia, at least, don't know how things work overseas), because even chaplains have to learn how to handle weapons etc and it would be a total breach of a Buddhist monastic's vows even to handle the weapon. Apparently the Buddhist council here have been in conversations with the military about creating a new model of chaplaincy which could have space for such radical pacifism. I don't know how it would work but I'm interested to see how the discussions progress.
My parish set up a sort of smaller icon stand with rotating icons for the kids to kiss. It's typically Christ blessing the children but they mix it up.To be fair, it was an idea I adapted from somewhere else. I saw pictures online of a church - I think in England - where they'd set the children's corner up in what had obviously once been little side chapel in a recessed alcove. And they had painted all the walls of that alcove with a mural of Christ blessing the children; so when the real children went into the alcove they literally stepped into the scene.
It was awesome. I had no way to replicate it. So the icon was the next best thing!
What do you mean by "faculties"?Agh, the problem with getting new pews (which it seems we are actually doing!), is dealing with the faculties.
Do any other denominations have faculties for stuff in the building, or is this a peculiarly Anglican obsession?
Agh, the problem with getting new pews (which it seems we are actually doing!), is dealing with the faculties.
Do any other denominations have faculties for stuff in the building, or is this a peculiarly Anglican obsession?
Thank you. I have never heard the term used in that context. From what I remember of the ELCA, something like what you are talking about would actually require a congregational vote. I remember a story I heard about my old church where the congregation argued for an hour over removing 3 pews so that the musicians can sit in chairs. My understanding in the Episcopal Church is that it is simply a decision for the Vestry.lol, Shane, at least I know I'm not alone in my misery!
Arcangl, faculties are official authorisation for something in the building. Theoretically, if you put something intended to be permanent(-ish) in the building, you're supposed to get the bishop's permission; and then if you ever want to take it out again, you need permission as well. The permission is called a "faculty."
The problem I have right now is that our bishop has retired and his replacement isn't here yet, and our archdeacon has moved and her replacement isn't here yet, so although I need to get permission for new pews sorted quickly, I don't actually know whose permission I need, to go ahead and do it. And my vicar is going on leave and wants it sorted.
Sigh. These new pews better be worth the hassle!
My understanding in the Episcopal Church is that it is simply a decision for the Vestry.
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