To the editors:
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Thank you for the best, the fairest, and the most objective article on the Episcopal Church and its BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER that I have ever read since our revolution began [“Is Nothing Sacred?” June 9]. As one of many still unhappy Episcopalians who are tired of being told we are “whining,” I am collecting a dozen copies of your newspaper to send to friends and family across the country.
Finally, in my clubby, successful parish, the majority of members are not “birthright” Episcopalians, but people who have come from the four corners of the earth because they like the ritual–not the liturgy–the ritual, the candles and incense and robes and such. Hearing different services week by week, they have no concept of the way in which worship and prayer are honed by repeated usage. But that really does not matter because they are chiefly there to celebrate one another.
