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My problem now is that most people my age have children and so I feel like I have little in common with them. Also, we're still new to our new parish so we don't know many people yet.
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I had the priests two daughters, me , and two guys in Church school. Not the usual amount. Again, ice. One of the teachers was trapped at home.
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At my college parish, a few fellow college or grad students go to the regular morning Sunday Masses. However, the priest has a college ministry going called Canterbury, which is a special 5pm "Half Mass" service (basically, a Rite I service [no music, etc] yet using Rite II wording yet minus the Psalm and one Reading [we do either the Old Testament or New Testament Lesson plus the Gospel]) then we head over to the Rectory to have dinner with the priest and his family (wife and three adorable children). A large number of us go; used to be 6-8 including myself although it is going to be more like 8-11 now 
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It's huge, I'm told--we had one of the assistant vicars come speak over here. Only problem is, are they still involved in the Toronto Blessing stuff? I'm a little bit wary of going to a church that does that sort of thing...
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I know exactly how you feel ...we've got about 3 of us under thirty....unfourtunatly on is also an ex boyfriend so I really have no want to bond with him...
But really ...that's why we're on the forum isn't it...so we could find people like us to chat to
But really ...that's why we're on the forum isn't it...so we could find people like us to chat to
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Well, my church is much different. As we are a nice bunch of people from all sorts of origins (US, Canada, GB, Asia, Germany) our average age group is much much younger than that of any other church. It mainly has to do with the fact that people who move to other countries tend to be younger. We only have one really elderly gentlemen. All the others move back to their home countries before they get old or die. It is also a wonderful church because it lacks all sorts of conflict that you have to deal with in a *normal* church. We do not quarrel about theological views, we embrace diversity. We do not have these music or liturgy discussions. And we do not have to look after a building (as we use the local Old Catholic Church). We are a group of Anglicans who come together because we all want to celebrate this kind of liturgy and that's exactly what we want.
On first sight this looks really nice - but on the other hand we have to face other kinds of problems. For me it is relatively easy as I am German - when I go home from church on Sunday I am still in "my" country - I just switch languages. For other members of my church this is much more difficult. Even if they have lived here for years, they still have the feeling that they remain foreigners. On the other hand they do feel as kind of strangers when they go back to their home countries for holiday. In some ways they are lost between cultures and that is not always easy. Although getting older, being ill or even dying are not so present in our midst, these subjects often come up, because friends or family members are ill or dying. And then it is very hard for our members not to be there, not to be able to help or support as other people can who live in the same country or in the same town.
So - if you lack one kind of problem, you can easily have other problems ... This is earth, not yet heaven ...
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Bonifatius
On first sight this looks really nice - but on the other hand we have to face other kinds of problems. For me it is relatively easy as I am German - when I go home from church on Sunday I am still in "my" country - I just switch languages. For other members of my church this is much more difficult. Even if they have lived here for years, they still have the feeling that they remain foreigners. On the other hand they do feel as kind of strangers when they go back to their home countries for holiday. In some ways they are lost between cultures and that is not always easy. Although getting older, being ill or even dying are not so present in our midst, these subjects often come up, because friends or family members are ill or dying. And then it is very hard for our members not to be there, not to be able to help or support as other people can who live in the same country or in the same town.
So - if you lack one kind of problem, you can easily have other problems ... This is earth, not yet heaven ...
All the best,
Bonifatius
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Boy, I know what it's like -- more so from being single than from being young (I ain't so young anymore!). My fiance will go with me eventually -- I haven't pressed the issue, but he is a believer. But at the moment, I don't go myself pending a move. Now, when we move to Central WV, I know that the EC I'll attend will be "old". The EC is, alas, dying there. And since my beloved is a truck driver, I'm sure I'll be the proverbial "little old middle-aged lady" driving to church on Sunday. But who knows? Maybe things can turn around ...
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Bonifatius said:
Of course, I'm really fond of most all things German: after all, a country which gave us Luther, Eschenbach, Brecht, Kafka, Heine, E.T.A. Hoffman, Schiller, Goethe, Rilke, Mann, Kant, Scheidt, Telemann, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Bach, Beethoven, Hummel, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Reinecke, Reger, Hindemith and Elisabet Ney is quite obviously doing SOMETHING right!
I'd learn German in a New York minute if it meant I could live in Germany! (I've played several solo and chamber music recitals, including one of my own music -- and the Germans were just about the nicest (and musically knowledgeable) people I've ever met!)
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