- General Election in the second half of the year.
- “…and as the polls close, our exit poll predicts that the Conservative Party is unlikely to be able to form a new government…”
- The next but one leader of the Conservative Party becomes Ruth Davidson MP.
- The hipsters get bored of vinyl and discover cameras with actual, you know, film.
- No date for a new referendum on Scottish Independence.
- No progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans in England.
- Progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans elsewhere, particularly Brazil.
- Increasing realisation that sexual abuse is part of church culture. #churchtoo #metoo.
- FTSE lower at the end of 2018 than it is at the beginning. (7687)
- The end of the beard.
11 responses to “A Form of Benediction for Married Persons”
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If it is proof reading you have got ‘those who are to be married’ p 13 when the liturgy earlier told us they were married. Same p 15.
As to the situation – plainly it is nuts. I assume it is a softly softly approach designed so that in fifteen years time somebody can say ‘But we have been marrying people in all but name for fifteen years, and nobody has ever objected’ – the not wholly unreasonable belief being that people tend to just-come-round to things. Not wholly unreasonable as this appears to have happened in British society. It takes no account of the difficulties and miseries these fifteen years will cause. Largely because they will not be caused to those formulating the policies, I imagine. And because many of those involved are, in fact, of the generation which has most struggled with the (to me) blindingly obvious that gender is irrelevant to love. That marriage is aobut love, and not gender roles (and women are not subservient in society) (which is what those who actually do believe that marriage is only for the straight all seem to me to believe).
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Thanks Rosemary. That’s exactly the kind of correction I need. I’ve amended the document.
I think the worry about waiting for 15 years before finding that we’ve been doing this all along is that vast numbers of people are presuming the church to be poisonous simply because they hear a public message which is that church isn’t for you if you have decent views about gay people.
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Anyone wanting to see the Scottish Episcopal Church’s actual marriage liturgy to see how completely and utterly different, oh its so different you wouldn’t believe it, you really won’t be able to comprehend how different, it is from what is posted above can find it here:
http://scotland.anglican.org/index.php/liturgy/liturgy/marriage_liturgy_2007/ -
I’m puzzled by this expression in one of the prayers – never heard the word.
“Together we now handsel them.”-
Check out the notes in the marriage liturgy. It is an old Scots word.
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Oh yes, I quite agree it it a poisonous situation. But ‘all’ it causes is slow death. People believe that is inevitable (I do not, but they do) and they can face that. What they cannot face is a row. Others in their faces saying things which they have to reply to.
At least, I assume that is the reason for delay, for the policy of attrition. If anybody can thing of anything else, do tell me.
Handsel – gift or positive good wish given at the start of an enterprise, or at a significant stage upon it, to wish it well upon its way. Scots word.
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I am afraid both working for managed decline and the idea that loving somebody of one’s own gender is in any inferior are both ideas which I have no sympathy with or understanding of. We all have out limitations.
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‘in any way inferior’ sorry.
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The US or Canada would be a great Honey Moon destination and the happy couple could easily find a number of Anglican parishes in either nation where they could celebrate their wedding nuptials in style!
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The possibility of doing things in style has never been in doubt.
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Bro David that’s a welcome suggestion. Also welcome is the offer of a good friend on many of us at St Marys who is a minister of the United Presbyterian Church of America (apologies if not exact title) who is now legally and ecclesiastically empowered to conduct marriages between any two persons and intends to do so here in Scotland. Methinks that all this silly shilly shallying about may come to an end when the powers that be realise that where there’s a calenderfull of nuptials there’s noodles of cash. And what church will say no to a sizeable contribution to the roof or organ fund?
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