Ship of Fools: Surplice for Holy Communion

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Posted by Ahleal V (# 8404) on :

Hello All,

Whilst I have worn all sorts of things to serve at HC in the past, in the church I presently serve, one option is to wear a cassock with a cotta. However, I don't presently have a cotta, but I do have a surplice which I wear (with a hood) when leading Evensong.

Am I bad and wrong for wearing a cassock with surplice for serving/deaconing at a very down-to-earth HC service? The presiding priest certainly isn't particularly bothered about what I wear, I assure you! And I keep thinking that surely Pusey, Keble and Newman wore cassock, hood and surplice to celebrate the HC, and that therefore such a practice has been sancitifed by those who have gone before me.

Or should I fear the Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary (solemnly) breaking down my door, slapping me around the head with a copy of Ritual Notes and burning my surplice?

AV

Posted by Ecclesiastical Flip-flop (# 10745) on :

You don't say whether or not you are a member of the Guild of Servants of the Sanctuary. If you are not, they will leave you alone. If you are, then in my experience, surplices are tolerated by GSS.

Posted by Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras (# 11274) on :

Sanctuary Swans can became vicious and may bite.

Posted by seasick (# 48) on :

I think one version of this thread is quite enough.

seasick, Eccles host

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