ex cathedra: What can you say?

Saturday, June 11, 2011

What can you say?

How did I miss this? From last summer...

An Anglican priestess gives Communion to a stranger and his dog,
"to make them feel welcome".

Parishioner says she thinks it's "no big deal."

Does the phrase "Unitarians in drag" ring a bell?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Okay, this time "drag" as bkw gard, guard, guard dog.

Dog: OT Canaanite; greek, cynic. (a merchant [phoenician, canaanite] "who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Yet the only value of nothingness is unto revaluation. ... The Canaanite will not guard without a drag train that convinces or persuades him, e.g. that it isn't a "big [dualist persian fate] deal." But the merging of opposites doesn't mean revaluation has become impossible, unthinkable, etc.); 5:40 PM, June 11, 2011
Anonymous said...: 1. It's a dog-eat-God world.

2. I was remembering some things about St. Francis and old stories about him preaching to animals -- which seems a step away from giving communion to them. I found some of the stories online :

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/ugolino/flowers.txt

-- one with birds, and one with a wolf... /but/ reading the stories there's an obvious thematic difference here. The stories are about making the birds more pious, and the wolf tame, nothing so utterly nonjudgmental as "making them feel welcome." So there's not only so much comparison. The Anglican priestess would seem to be reducing the communion to a social nicety.

--Nathan; 8:43 PM, June 12, 2011

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