—Otherworldly. The Eastern Orthodox, with their domes and incense, the way they make you stand and chant till you’re exhausted, have got this on lock. No one will ever compete. Still, there’s more than one kind of otherworldly.
"My strength is made perfect in your weakness" comes at a perfect time for me. I've been going to a tiny Anglo-Catholic church and have been simultaneously moved and puzzled by both the sincerity of its incredibly formal liturgy and also the essential shabbiness of it all (the eight or so attendees don't support a lot of extraneous pomp). I am used to High Church, but even so there is a certain spookiness in doing the bare rituals with no choir, no acolytes, no organ music, no rich donors. So why do we play dress-up like this at all? You've hit upon it. It's "weak," in a very, very good way. It would be even better if they moved the whole thing out onto the median strip.
Sort of like the 95 theses for our time, but pithier, and at least as necessary.
"My strength is made perfect in your weakness" comes at a perfect time for me. I've been going to a tiny Anglo-Catholic church and have been simultaneously moved and puzzled by both the sincerity of its incredibly formal liturgy and also the essential shabbiness of it all (the eight or so attendees don't support a lot of extraneous pomp). I am used to High Church, but even so there is a certain spookiness in doing the bare rituals with no choir, no acolytes, no organ music, no rich donors. So why do we play dress-up like this at all? You've hit upon it. It's "weak," in a very, very good way. It would be even better if they moved the whole thing out onto the median strip.
amen
can’t wait to come back to goth church w you brother