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Do you go to church on Sunday?

Started by Catalina, May 26, 2013, 02:39:23 AM

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Sir Real

Thank you Rahel!
Yeah very true.  On one hand I don't wanna have a "Forget you!" attitude toward my parent's wishes but on the other hand it's my life. Ah well, it will get sorted out at some point and then I'll be able to say "Yep! I go to church"! Getting to grow with like-minded people definitely sounds like a good thing!





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Vicky

I do attend my Episcopal Church's Sunday service of the Holy Eucharist most Sundays when I am at home, and have visited parishes in other places when I am not near my own parish.  The Episcopal Church is the U.S. version of the Anglican Catholic Church  in Canada.  At my home parish, I am a Lector and an Intercessor, the first reads the Old Testament lessons on Sundays or other services, and the second office is the reading of public prayers, also during the Eucharistic service.  I fully transitioned in my church, and was warmly accepted after being a male member for over 22 years.  This past summer, the Episcopal Church removed all obstacles from its Trans members from having any status or office either lay or clergy up to and including Presiding Bishop, and at the same general convention, adopted an official rite for blessing same sex marriages, and formalizing same sex marriages in U.S. states where they are legal. 

Episcopalians do have their own version of a Rosary, in the form of beads in a slightly different configuration from a Rosary, and they are used for special prayer experiences as well.
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Catalina

Quote from: Vicky on May 30, 2013, 12:46:04 AM
I do attend my Episcopal Church's Sunday service of the Holy Eucharist most Sundays when I am at home, and have visited parishes in other places when I am not near my own parish.  The Episcopal Church is the U.S. version of the Anglican Catholic Church  in Canada.  At my home parish, I am a Lector and an Intercessor, the first reads the Old Testament lessons on Sundays or other services, and the second office is the reading of public prayers, also during the Eucharistic service.  I fully transitioned in my church, and was warmly accepted after being a male member for over 22 years.  This past summer, the Episcopal Church removed all obstacles from its Trans members from having any status or office either lay or clergy up to and including Presiding Bishop, and at the same general convention, adopted an official rite for blessing same sex marriages, and formalizing same sex marriages in U.S. states where they are legal. 

Episcopalians do have their own version of a Rosary, in the form of beads in a slightly different configuration from a Rosary, and they are used for special prayer experiences as well.

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That is so beautiful! I have heard lots of good and bad about the Episcopal Church, but I am very happy that they have opened up for transgender and transsexual members in the community. I would love to go to an Episcopal service some day!

My parish is Anglican, but they don't use the 'Anglican rosary;' we use the 'Dominican' rosary, or the rosary popularly used by Catholics. I used to have some Anglican prayer beads, but they ended up breaking! :(

In the Anglican Church of Canada, we only have ten dioceses that are 'authorised' to do same-sex marriages, but I think that eventually, all churches, whether Pentecostal, Baptist, Anglican, and maybe even Catholic and Mormon, will have to accept gay members as full-fledged Christians!
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King Malachite

Quote from: Rahel on May 30, 2013, 06:31:43 PM
but I think that eventually, all churches, whether Pentecostal, Baptist, Anglican, and maybe even Catholic and Mormon, will have to accept gay members as full-fledged Christians!

I'm definately looking foward to the Pentecostals and Baptists doing that! :)
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Catalina

Quote from: Asa on May 29, 2013, 11:23:02 PM
Thank you Rahel!
Yeah very true.  On one hand I don't wanna have a "Forget you!" attitude toward my parent's wishes but on the other hand it's my life. Ah well, it will get sorted out at some point and then I'll be able to say "Yep! I go to church"! Getting to grow with like-minded people definitely sounds like a good thing!

Yeah! I totally agree; church or not, all people who call themselves Christian are called to live lives of radical love to every being, and it is so sad that people forget about that Greatest Commandment of Christ in the Bible! If I can not love, then I should not even call myself Jehovah's daughter!

I hope it gets sorted out eventually! We all merit God's love even more, because so many people hate and revile us for who we are. God bless!  :)
"Live fully, love wastefully, and be all that you can be."
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Catalina

Quote from: Malachite on May 30, 2013, 06:33:29 PM
I'm definately looking foward to the Pentecostals and Baptists doing that! :)

Me too!!  :D

Forgot one detail: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, AND transsexual!
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