And see, the sign that I've been raised inside the Episcopal church is that the processions and liturgy (and yes, the word is lectionary) are very comforting to me, and mean I'm home in a church. I feel very left out in the low-church services where there's no set places for the laity to respond. Even Methodists and Lutherans throw me off with the emphasis being placed on the sermon instead of on the Eucharist.

Interesting news about the diocesian convention, I'll have to remember to look for that to come up at the next national convention. The last one was hosted in my home diocese, and was somewhat mixed in its work on several issues, though we did end up with a presiding bishop who is made of awesome.

In my experience, sermons tend to be a lot closer to at least one of the texts read through in the day, so I'm a bit suprised that this priest went off on a tangent.

As far as I can recall, the first set of tablets with the ten commandments was destroyed when Moses threw them down in anger at seeing the people worshiping the golden calf, Moses had to re-carve them and that pair was what was carried around in the arc.

The after-service Adult Ed sounds very interesting, and somewhat similar to a few classes I've had that have touched on the subject.

And now I'm really missing my home church.