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Thread: Surplice for Holy Communion
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Ahleal V
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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
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Ecclesiastical Flip-flop
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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.
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seasick
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I think one version of this thread is quite enough.
seasick, Eccles host
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We believe there is, and always was, in every Christian Church, ... an outward priesthood, ordained by Jesus Christ, and an outward sacrifice offered therein. - John Wesley
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