I woke after twelve hours of sound sleep.😺😴😺
During the early coffee clatch a comment I made about fr. Travis preaching from the pulpit or the center aisle in the nave was well received. I expressed the opinion that when he's in the pulpit he's presenting a dissertation to his professors and when he preaches from the aisle he's having a conversation with the people. I shared the same opinion with William, who'd rather the sermon be delivered from the pulpit, but I don't think it softened his criticism. As he said, it's an age thing. I can understand that. There're many quirks I have about the conduct of the clergy and people that I carry from my years in the church where I was confirmed. The first being the abandonment of the chasbule during the Eucharist (which seeems to be a practice at many parishes as indicated from watching online streams) but what really grinds my butt is parishioners leaving the pews and ad running all over the nave during the peace. I expressed myself to Lee and Donna thus, "Excuse me for being such an Episcopalian, but the peace is part of the liturgy not a bell announcing recess. It's the same boneI gnaw on about people who are so inconvenienced by worship that they can't sit quietly or even pray or meditate prior to the start of the Mass, but istead chatter away with each other like they're waiting for the movie to start at the cineplex.
