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Dubious Thomas
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There was a pretty good April Fools prank pulled over in "Purgatory," which reminded me of the one that "got" me late last night (when it was already April 1 in New Zealand):
The Reverend Bosco Peters, who blogs under the title, "Liturgy," posted this report on a "New Ecumenical English Missal Project" being launched by Pope Francis.
I should have known it was a joke just from the photographs of the project board members! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) But, knowing this pope.... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Autenrieth Road
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As far as I can tell, only one of the commenters so far has realized it's an April Fool's joke.
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Mamacita
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I had no idea. I've seen several Very Serious™ people circulating the story!
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Olaf
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That's the fun of Ecclesiantics: wit so dry that one cannot tell it is wit at all! Seems to be a common trait of those who are liturgically-minded, as we have seen today.
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Rev per Minute
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I did confuse one of my colleagues woth the 'Ecumenical Liturgy' story, even when accompanied by a broad hint that it was an April Fool. Perhaps testament to this Pope's ability to surprise us?
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Bishops Finger
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April Fool or not, sounds like a Good Scheme to me......!!
Ian J.
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Beeswax Altar
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Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
I did confuse one of my colleagues woth the 'Ecumenical Liturgy' story, even when accompanied by a broad hint that it was an April Fool. Perhaps testament to this Pope's ability to surprise us?
Indeed
However, this Pope doesn't speak English very well. Why would he put himself on the committee to oversee the development of the liturgy? Why would he want only one Roman Catholic but two Anglicans on said committee? Why would he want representatives of only two English speaking nations on the committee? For the record, I'm Episcopalian and I want the current PB to have as little say about any future liturgy as possible. As a matter of fact, I'm an Anglo-Catholic who looks at the four suggested members of the committee and thinks, "Well, the Lutheran representative isn't so bad."
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stonespring
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You can't even get Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, etc., to agree on a liturgy for their own denominations - and there is so much bending of the rubrics that the official liturgies don't matter than much anyway. Every time you make a new liturgy, you just add one more option for people to use or not use, regardless of what they are required to do. It's kind of like Council of Pisa in the Great Western Schism. You have two claimants to the Papacy, so you have a council to decide who the real pope is. You name a new Pope to settle the schism, and all you wind up with is three claimants to the Papacy.
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Chorister
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The initial letters in blue, spelling APRIL FOOL were a very strong giveaway.
However, having read the communion services at the front of Baptist and Methodist service books and also having gone to a RC Mass, as well as attending my own CofE church, there really isn't a lot of difference already. So it's a non-joke.
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stonespring
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Originally posted by Chorister:
The initial letters in blue, spelling APRIL FOOL were a very strong giveaway.
However, having read the communion services at the front of Baptist and Methodist service books and also having gone to a RC Mass, as well as attending my own CofE church, there really isn't a lot of difference already. So it's a non-joke.
The differences in the English-speaking world were greatly reduced by the 20th-Century Liturgical Movement and the reforms that multiple denominations made around the time of Vatican II. But the RCC went in the opposite direction recently by switching to a new translation without trying to coordinate things with other denominations. I'm not wholly opposed to the new translation (although it has flaws galore), but after bashing the old translations out of my head I now have to reach for the service sheet or prayer book whenever I attend a non-Catholic service when I used to be able to just recite certain parts from memory.
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Dubious Thomas
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Originally posted by The Silent Acolyte:
Not from the NZ liturgy site, but here is another April Fool's spoof. Skip over the two deadpan choristers and check out the eyes on the chorister to the far left after the application of the helium balloon.
"... we learned that the surgical solution was surprisingly unpopular with the choral scholars...."
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
[ 04. April 2014, 01:33: Message edited by: Dubious Thomas ]
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