High Church blog, playing Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi this morning....Fred is looking at me, like...." Don't you got anymore of that Jimi Hendrix?"
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
- John Henry Newman
John Henry also said
“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”
And I am deeper, much deeper in history than the average person, but I ain't leaving the Protestant church.
So, you are reading this this morning and saying, " Well, it was going to happen, the Buna ISD is going to push Mr. T over the top, and here we are..... "
No, I have to go to the fashionable Galleria section of Houston this evening for an evening as a member of my extended family is converting to a form of Catholicism, well, I have written on in graduate school.
Follow Kerry Thomas's ( Yes I like to possessive my last name with the spelling Thomas's with a double s. And don't care, as 3 generations ago, my great-grandfather changed his last name, a story I need to write on some day.)
My wife's nephew is converting to Catholicism tonight at the Cathedral set up for former Episcopalians/Anglicans, to convert to the Catholic Church. The Pope even set up a special Anglicanorum coetibus to establish Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham.( It is named after a town in Norfolk, England, and no, the Thomas's have not been to Norfolk.....Perhaps the next trip. I really want to go to Whitby on the east coast, site of part of Bram Stoker's, "Dracula"/ We've beaten Western England to death.).... They have an Ordinaraite Form of worship recognized by the Catholics that is more Anglican in nature. The cathedral is in charge of all churches who do an Anglo-Catholic for of worship in the U.S. and Canada.....Yeah, I know, I lost you. And I am trying to keep it simple and not add footnotes. ( Citations for you uneducated)
Since the Oxford Movement in England in the 1800s, there has been a flirtation by some Anglicans/Episcopalians with a form of worship called Anglo-Catholicism. Some of these Anglo-Catholics, stay associated with the Anglicans/ Episcopalians, some go on and convert to the Catholic Church. John Henry Newman an Oxford University Fellow who wrote on this, I won't go into details, was an Anglican priest who converted and became a Roman Catholic priest. Thus my mentioning him in my opening quotes.
And this Cathedral is for those who worship in an Anglo-Catholic style and remain within the good graces of the Pope.
Here is Kerry Don Thomas's view......The priests are allowed to be married in this form of Catholicism. I think the priests are finding a loophole to be Catholic priest and still have sex....That's a hill I will die on....
I wrote about this movement in graduate school. And I am just curious.........And don't jump on me because I am going to a Catholic Church. About a half of my aunts and uncles on the Thomas side married Catholic and converted, and I don't see a big deal. Never mind I have ran with Catholics all my life.
So, because of the conversion, it gives us an excuse to attend. And no, the nephew isn't originally Episcopalian, he grew up Baptist.
It should be interesting..... I know, I ain't right.....And I am certainly not converting to the Church of Rome.
And I will get ugly messages just because I darken the door of a Catholic Church...
The real question is this.
What do I wearing?
A Brooks Brothers navy blue pinstripe suit? Look like I am about to address the House of Lords?
A khaki suit, Ralph Lauren, with light blue Prince of Wales checks?
Or what I leading towards, my favorite check sports coat, a Ralph Lauren Purple, silk/wool combo, looks academic, bow tie, straw fedora, look I am someone. They will until they see we will be pulling up in a Subaru.
I've already pulled out a couple of combos and had them on Reid's bed to see which shirts, ties to wear with each....We shall see.......This is what happens when you are a fop/dandy and own over 150 ties.....
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