Amazing or just sad?

Ruth Gledhill doing a round up of GenCon (The Episcopal Churches Conference... or something) Bloggers links to this post from Apostolicity...

The woman at the head of the line was resting a massive lit Paschal Candle on the floor, behind her were those carrying stones (I discovered later), followed by a group carrying pitchers of water, followed by a bearer of windchimes.

The stones were supposed to represent sins, after being placed in a basin, the water was poured over them to cover them, (covering is not the same as absolving) and then, I suppose, the windchimes were representative of some spirit. But as one Apostle was heard to remark, "There are spirits, and then there are well,... spirits."

It's most amazing!

You have to see this to believe it!

Really!

Now I may have got the wrong end of the stick... I don't know the guys perspective or experiences (there is a nice pic of a Beardy, Preisty type which I assume is he)... but what struck me was the incredible gulfs in Global Christian Culture... reading this description of a Eucharist certainly did not make me amazed, to be honest I'm not sure what was amazing about it... the candle resting on the floor, the stones, the wind-chimes... ??? nothing amazing about any of those... If that amazed the said blogger, do you think his head would implode or explode at Greenbelt ;-)  However, what did amaze (and sadden) me was this bit...

Yesterday, as we were heading to the Special Committee on Communion Matters hearing, we passed the entry to the hall where the ECW (Episcopal Church Women) was having there [sic] Eucharist.

The Church at it's worst, segregated for all the wrong reasons!  Whilst the Committee for 'Communion Matters' the women were forced to  have their own communion elsewhere... I wonder did the Committe retire to the Drawing room after the meeting for cigars, billiards and political conversation?

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