by Nicholas » January 9th, 2006, 3:11 pm
I looked back at Carol's post in which she describes herself as 'low church.' In terms of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and indeed of every official prayer book of the English Church since Elizabeth I, that would mean that they ignore and disobey the rubrics and the canons of the Church, primarily the Ornaments Rubric. For RC's that is rather like being Cistercian, a bit one penny plain instead of two penny coloured.
Carol says they preach the Bible keenly but are obviously not up to the standards of Malachi. See chapter 1, verse 11. Incidentally, the table and the altar are the same and the words have always been used interchangeably even in the Latin books. And, yes, even in Malachi.
This may not seem like a 'big thing,' but disobedience, beginning with Adam, has been the major sin; deciding that you know better than God how things should be done. But we in the West are very big upon it.