Episcopalians and God

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Never heard Anglicans say “God is Mother.” Not doubting someone did–just not someone I have ever heard. My parish is really conservative, though 😉
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I agree, I’ve never heard anyone say that either. And I’ve known quite a few Anglicans too…that’s just strange…and wrong…
 
I take it that no-one here has been to the MANY dances held at the Pueblos of New Mexico during Christmas and the Patron Saints days?

The pueblo missions were founded were founded and are still staffed by a majority of Catholic Franciscans, there has been cultural accomadation going on for years it is nothing new I fear.

There are also people on the pueblos, and in the small New Mexico communities called Penitentes, they formed durng the years when the Spanish were driven from New Mexico, they do very harsh works of pennance, beating each other and them selves with whips containing thorns and pieces of glass.

Like the Phillipinos they crucify one of their members each year, occasionally one of them dies.

When the Spanish returned in 1680 they tried to get the penitentes to disband, however they still exist and their chapels called Moradas exist side by side with the Catholic parish churches, the church had decided to allow them to exist side by side with the church.

Google Penitente, or Morada.
 
“As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother, and he revealed that in everything, and especially in these sweet words where he says: I am he, that is to say, I am he, the power and goodness of fatherhood; I am he, the wisdom and the lovingness of Motherhood; I am he, the light and the grace which is all blessed love; I am he, Trinity; I am he, the unity; I am he, the great supreme goodness of every kind of thing; I am he who makes you to love; I am he who makes you to long; I am he, the endless fulfilment of all true desires. For where the soul is highest, noblest, most honourable, still it is lowest, meekest, mildest.
… From this it follows that truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother. Our Father wills, Our Mother works, our good Lord the Holy Spirit confirms. And therefore it is our part to love our God in whom we have our being, reverently thanking and praising him for our creation, mightily praying to our Mother for mercy and pity and to our Lord the Holy Spirit for help and grace. For in these three is all our life: nature, mercy and grace, of which we have mildness, patience and pity …”
Dame Julian of Norwich; circa 1394.
 
Deary me, this is not seriously a “lets attack the episcopal church” thread is it?

That would be incredibly childish, and I would know…

As for their loss in numbers, gees - open your eyes!!!

Look at the Catholic church, it is dwindling, in the past forty years in Britain, church attendance has dropped by nearly 1 million people - that is shocking, why don’t we address our own problems before whining about others?
 
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