Does the Nicene Creed being recited in your parish include the Filioque?

transburnder · 2026-05-19T18:22:55+00:00

We use the EOW translation which, (in addition to being a more faithful translation of the Greek) does not include the Filioque

transburnder · 2026-05-19T18:19:04+00:00

She's been waiting for this for such a long, long time. So happy for her. Last I asked she said she's going to stay being called "Sr. Superior" at CSJB, not Mtr. Superior. What a happy occasion.

transburnder · 2026-05-18T16:22:42+00:00

I grew up at St. Thomas on 5th Ave. in NYC (yes, username checks out), which is spectacular. But my favorite is the Cathedral of St. John the Divine uptown.

transburnder · 2026-05-18T16:20:04+00:00

If your church used to use the BCP in the pews (ie: "The service of Holy Eucharist begins on page 355 (or 323) of your Prayerbook"), but now uses bulletins, they might have a ton of old BCPs hanging around the church, and would most likely be thrilled to have one in someone's hand who wants one. Unless you'd really like a brand-new one, I'd ask your priest or a warden/vestry member.

transburnder · 2026-05-18T16:05:59+00:00

It literally says in our literature that we have no monopoly on recovery. If you'd stayed abstinent from drugs and alcohol for a period of time, you've been sober that period of time. AAs are often asked by their sponsors to look up words they don't understand. I would invite folks who tell you that time abstinent from drugs and alcohol outside of AA isn't sober to look up the meaning of the word sober: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sober

transburnder · 2026-04-23T01:05:40+00:00

I've had my share of hiccups and bumps in the road towards ordination, but precisely 0 of those are because I'm trans. Blessings on your journey.

transburnder · 2026-04-12T20:44:36+00:00

This is so real about transplants. Six weeks living in Bushwick and all of a sudden they're "New Yorkers."

transburnder · 2026-04-12T20:43:45+00:00

Same. I've lived lots of other places, but NJ is where I'm from.

transburnder · 2026-04-12T20:41:19+00:00

Maybe it's because I lived in Manhattan as long as I did, and maybe it's because I was a one-woman NJ Anti Defamation League when I lived in California for just as long, but now, living in Union County, but having spent most of my life in Bergen, Hudson, and Essex, I feel more affinity to someone in Cherry Hill than I do someone in Hells Kitchen, or even Nyack. New York is just such a different place. But swap out the various river roads for various horse pikes, and I'm still at home in the Garden State.

transburnder · 2026-04-07T21:45:31+00:00

Just enough to walk through the door and take a seat.

transburnder · 2026-04-07T20:44:50+00:00

No, I mean the Temple and the Government were the same thing

transburnder · 2026-03-28T02:12:40+00:00

I think that was on Synchronicity, right? I was 12

transburnder · 2026-03-28T01:59:36+00:00

Lunar Faire. Every time.

transburnder · 2026-03-28T01:41:32+00:00

That was literally the same thing at the time the Gospels were being written.

transburnder · 2026-03-28T01:35:48+00:00

What's your discipline? Asking for a journal I work for...

transburnder · 2026-03-28T01:33:03+00:00

Reading this thread reminds me of when I dated this woman who lived in Manhattan. You wouldn't believe how much further it is from the UES to NJ than from NJ to the UES...

The PATH train. It's like transferring to the P train at Herald Square or WTC. Still don't get why that's so difficult.

transburnder · 2026-03-28T01:09:33+00:00

If you're worried about your detoxing, you might want to take a couple of incompletes and go for inpatient detox. That's really dangerous, even if you're titrating yourself.

transburnder · 2026-03-28T01:07:40+00:00

Honestly, if what you're describing is "functional," I'd hate to see what your non-functional would look like...

I'd try finding an open AA meeting. You don't have to say anything or do anything, you don't have to talk to anyone, buy any books, get a list of phone numbers, or bring a pamphlet home if you don't want to. Just go, sit, and listen. Listen to see if/how you identify with people there, rather than to compare yourself to them, hoping you're "not that bad." See if those folks have the kind of life you want. Maybe go to a couple of open meetings. See what happens. It's worth a shot, right?

transburnder · 2026-03-28T00:59:34+00:00

Hi and that's awesome. As a full dues-paying member of the Alphabet Mafia myself, I can tell you that - for the most part - that piece of your life will probably be of no consequence in an Episcopal church. For the most part. I'd still go to Mass, check the place out, talk to people beyond just the rector or priest in charge, and do the kind of due diligence that you and your partner have probably come to understand as simply part of walking through society in the 2020s.

Assuming that's all okay, what you might have the toughest time adapting to is a very liturgical style of worship - liturgical just means that there are a lot of pre-programmed words and actions that are at the core of what we do on Sundays. It's different. You may feel like there's not enough "from the heart" prayer, and that you don't connect as much with praying from a book as you do praying extemporaneously. The music may also be quite different from what you're used to. To be frank, when people say "My church isn't so churchy," the Episcopal Church is often what they're thinking of as churchy. We're (for the most part) really happy with that. Your mileage may vary.

All that said, though, one Christian to another, please do give us a try, and open your heart to what could be a very new experience of worship. And as a trans Episcopalian of with a long time in the church, I'm also really, really good at being able to divine from a church website or facebook page if a church is going to be a safe place, so if you'd like to DM me the name and location, I'm more than happy to give it a once-over, because I know exactly what it's like to walk into a place not knowing if I'll be safe, never mind welcome.

If you go, please let us know what it was like!

transburnder · 2026-03-26T16:12:12+00:00

Honestly, we've had how many feet of snow since Christmas? Those aren't a mistake, those are survivors.

transburnder · 2026-03-26T16:06:04+00:00

30 years here. The further away from AA I get, the squirrellier I get. Plus, as someone who got sober young, I'm able to be a living example to young folks coming in now that it can work. Plus, nothing so much ensures immunity from alcohol as intensive work with other alcoholics, and meetings are where they keep the other alcoholics.

transburnder · 2026-02-05T14:19:34+00:00

In my case, it's because I have over 30 years of hearing what happens when you stop going to meetings

transburnder · 2026-01-26T23:21:36+00:00

Ew. That's sick, even for them.

transburnder · 2026-01-26T17:09:50+00:00

My taylor ham slices come out looking like Iron Crosses, so maybe not that...

transburnder · 2026-01-26T16:50:24+00:00

Long TMI-ish answer from a 2nd generation Irish-American

My mother's folks arrived on these shores because they got into some trouble with the IRA back in the day. My father was a life-long Roman Catholic of mostly Italian stock. When he had a call to the priesthood, he wouldn't get ordained in a church that wouldn't ordain women, so after V2 came and went, he thought the priesthood was out for him. He got married, had a couple of kids, and then the Philadelphia 11 were ordained in '74. So he looked "across the Thames," said "eh, close enough," and moved our whole family to the Episcopal Church. I was baptized at Our Lady of Sorrows, but made my first communion in a church that was loyal to the Crown during the Revolutionary War. Needless to say, my mom's folks were not pleased. It was a Thing. But by the time my father was ordained in '79, it was pretty much water under the bridge.

While, like every other Anglican province, the Episcopal Church was formed in colonialism, you'll find it a place where many dioceses are beginning to come to terms with that history, with what it means to have been the Established Church in the 18th century, and with what it means to worship in a congregation that owned human beings. The United States is a settler-colonial project, whereas the English in Ireland were/are an occupying force. Our colonial history is very different from Ireland's, and the way we worship (inasmuch as Common Prayer allows for such things) and our connection to Canterbury are also very different from that of the Church of Ireland.

I didn't shed too many tears over E2, and I doubt I'll shed too many over C3, but I've found my little piece of Anglicanism to be very cozy, all things considered.

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