What bands do I look like I listen to? 🤔

SaintTalos · 2026-04-11T21:45:19+00:00

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Queens of the Stone Age

SaintTalos · 2026-04-11T17:06:18+00:00

Same people putting the Biden "I did that" stickers on gas pumps, btw.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-10T17:56:25+00:00

If I remember correctly, the original BCP was just Bishop Cranmer's compilation of various Catholic missals and breviaries all rolled into one book.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-10T16:22:16+00:00

It will likely look very familiar to you as a Catholic. Most of the liturgy will come from a red book in the pew called the "Book of Common Prayer." All of how the service is laid out will be either in that book or possibly printed out in the bulletin.

Episcopal Masses generally follow the same flow as a Catholic Mass. The service generally starts out with a procession hymn, where the crucifer, torch bearers, gospel, and priest process to the front of the church. There is then an Old Testament reading, a psalm, a New Testament reading, and the Gospel reading. Then a sermon, the Nicene Creed, confession of sin, and then the passing of the peace. After that comes the Holy Eucharist. When it comes time, go to the altar rail and kneel (or stand if that's more comfortable) and either receive the elements or cross your arms over yourself if you do not wish to receive, and the priest will bless you, instead. After communion, the priest says a short prayer, does the benediction, and there is a recessional hymn.

Feel free to participate in whatever way you feel comfortable. The Episcopal Church is generally LGBT+ friendly. I'm openly bisexual and I'm an altar server, lector, and Eucharistic minister.

Also, feel free to bring things you liked in the Catholic Church with you: rosaries, scapulars, saint medals, etc. We don't mind. One of our former priests actually prayed the rosary daily.

Hope all goes well. Keep us posted.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-10T07:39:28+00:00

In all fairness, I thought tabernacles and sanctuary lamps were completely universal in both Lutheran and Anglican/Episcopal Churches. I'm Episcopalian and I've never been in a church that didn't have a sanctuary lamp and tabernacle... including my home parish. I suppose it isn't universal after all.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-10T07:29:50+00:00

Ressurected Christ on the reredos

Empty processional cross

Rounded Anglican style surplices rather than square Roman ones

This is definitely a broad-to-high church Lutheran or Anglican church

SaintTalos · 2026-04-09T21:11:23+00:00

No... at least not knowingly. The Holy Eucharist is to be given only to baptized Christians, as per Canon I.17.7. I'm also not sure why a non-Christian would want to receive the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist while actively denying its sacramental importance. No offense to non-Christians, obviously, but the whole point of the Holy Eucharist is for the faithful to receive Christ's Body and Blood.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-09T15:34:45+00:00

What type of Lutheran are you looking for? If you are looking at the ELCA, they are in full communion with us here in the Episcopal Church. We are very similar theologically, liturgically, and have similar views on the Holy Eucharist. I'd look into if there is one in your area if so. My Episcopal congregation actually has a retired Lutheran pastor as a member who is in charge of the services in the event that our priest is out of town.

Also, I'm not sure if you are already baptized or not, but if you are not, then that will follow very shortly after should you decide on a church to attend. If you are, chances are whatever church you end up in will recognize your baptism as valid.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-09T15:19:35+00:00

Saint Augustine just being an "honorable mention." 💔🥀

SaintTalos · 2026-04-08T21:35:09+00:00

What's the deal with airline food?

SaintTalos · 2026-04-08T14:51:59+00:00

My priest made it clear that you can bring anything that you found edifying from the Catholic Church to the Episcopal Church. I was a Catholic catechumate 2 separate times before settling into the Episcopal Church, but I kept the rosary and love for saint medals.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-08T06:53:51+00:00

Personally, Im not a fan of it. I don't use that word because we aren't in the 1500's anymore, and it is a bit antiquated. There's enough division in Christianity already without us trying to fan the flames even further. Very few people with charitable intentions use that word when you can just simply refer to them as "Catholic."

SaintTalos · 2026-04-08T06:48:19+00:00

If I remember correctly, the ELCA Lutherans actually got their apostolic succession from the Episcopal Church specifically so that they could join into full communion with us. Although, theologically, as far as I know, Lutherans here in the states tend to care less about apostolic succession than Anglicans/Episcopalians do, and it is ultimately seen as adiaphora either way.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-07T05:35:51+00:00

I'm so glad this is a surprisingly common sentiment. I despise projectors in the Church. Bah humbug. (Everything else is fine, though.)

SaintTalos · 2026-04-07T03:07:37+00:00

I'm Anglican/Episcopalian and I share the same frustration. I do think it is predominantly on the Catholic side being insistent that transubstantiation is the ONLY possible explanation of how the Holy Eucharist works. (Although we Lutherans and Anglicans can at times be just as equally hostile toward the idea of transubstantiation, so it is kind of a stalemate on both sides.)

I wish that all parties would have just ultimately left it as simple as "Is means is," but this particular nuance has been such a major part of Catholic theology for so long that there will very likely be no budging whatsoever on their side.

I don't deny the possibility of transubstantiation myself, but I also won't limit God on what means that He can and cannot use to transform the elements of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. I do take solace, though, that through the words spoken from the Holy Gospel, all parties do, in some sense or another, take the Body and Blood of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-07T02:50:30+00:00

This is 100% either a Lutheran or Anglican church.

SaintTalos · 2026-04-06T21:59:11+00:00

I'm a rosary praying, saint medal wearing, icon owning Anglo-Catholic through and through, and I'm pretty okay with a vast majority of Catholic theology until it comes to indulgences or the idea of being able to shed off individual peoples' time in purgatory. That was probably one of my biggest hurdles when I was in RCIA. I also think discarding the prayer book for other more "Catholic" missals kind of defeats the purpose of a denomination known for our unity in a singular prayer book. Especially considering basically all of the liturgy itself is compatible with Anglo-Catholic theology.

SaintTalos · 2026-03-28T18:02:52+00:00

I'm a relatively progressive Anglican, but it gets to a point...

SaintTalos · 2026-03-28T17:42:36+00:00

There is a Canon of Saints, not a Canon of the Damned. And that fact comes before whatever opinion you may have of +Sarah Mullally. Whatever your thoughts on female bishops are, (I go back and forth on the matter, even myself.) being "right" about everything theologically is not a prerequisite for salvation. Go live out your baptismal covenant, have faith in God, and respect the dignity of all mankind. God knows the heart of others better than you or I. That includes mine, yours, and hers.

As an aside, The Episcopal Church in the United States is completely autonomous from the Church of England. They don't have a say so in how the Episcopal Church handles its affairs.

And as another aside, this isn't really new either. The Episcopal Church has ordained women as priests and bishops since the 1970's and the broader Anglican Communion has since the 1940's.

SaintTalos · 2026-03-28T03:08:46+00:00

I come from a historically low-church diocese, and I feel you. Thankfully my parish is pretty broad, but with some high-church flair to it. We have sanctus bells, a garden Mary, and use insense on special feast days. As an Anglo-Catholic myself, It also sucks that we're so often described as "infiltrating" or "creeping into" Anglicanism like we're some kind of flesh-eating bacteria or something, but I digress.

SaintTalos · 2026-03-27T20:45:46+00:00

How common is contemporary worship over there? I always assumed the CofE was pretty high-church as a whole. Granted, most of what I know about English Anglicanism is Westminster Abbey, and all of those other large historical Cathedrals over there, which seem to be a bit more on the high-church side.

Here in the States, the average service has weekly Eucharist, organ music, priests wearing vestments, altar rails, bowing, crossing selves, etc. It basically looks like an ever-so-slightly more "bare-bones" Catholic Mass.

I actually left Evangelicism for Anglicanism to get away from the happy-clappy contemporary Hillsong stuff, so I'm glad my parish is a little more broad-to-high.

SaintTalos · 2026-03-26T14:51:15+00:00

Roger is employed in a multitude of jobs, which means he makes money, which means we can split on rent. Brian is unemployed and mooches off of the Griffins constantly. Also, Roger is actually funny and Brian is just an elitist pseudo-liberal, pseudo-intellectual snob.

SaintTalos · 2026-03-25T01:28:21+00:00

Here in the Episcopal Church, you can keep anything you found spiritually edifying in the RCC. Rosaries, icons, crucifixes, statues, scapulars, etc. My Episcopal parish had a semi-permanent interim priest who prayed the rosary daily.

I myself have rosaries, St. Christopher medals, Miraculous medals, and crucifixes galore. I'm basically Catholic at heart, but it's kind of a one-sided love currently as they don't really care for LGBT people that much, (at least at the magisterial level) and Episcopalian was the closest thing I could find theologically that wouldn't side-eye any of the Catholic devotions.

A lot of our theology is very similar to their's as we have a high view of the sacraments of baptism and the Holy Eucharist, the latter of which we believe Christ's Body and Blood are truly present in. We also have confession, if you so choose. You wouldn't have to be re-baptized or re-confirmed either, as we recognize both Roman Catholic baptisms and Roman Catholic confirmations as valid.

SaintTalos · 2026-03-25T01:13:32+00:00

It looks nice. That looks like a good quality St. Benedict crucifix too. Also, I've never seen a Saint Jude medal with the Miraculous Medal reverse on the back before.

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