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soldierant

(6,785 posts)
21. Certainly I noticed that, but I am
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 08:17 PM
Mar 2023

a Lutheran turned Catholic, and both denominationa are liturgical.

Most Evangelicals are non-liturgical. They recognize Christmas and Easter and that's about it. (Some of them refuse to all Easter "Easter" but call it "Resurrection Sunday" instead. Lent? Ash Wednesday? Annunciation? Ascension? Advent? All Saints Day? They may have heard the names but have no idea what they mean. They probably think Epiphany is a skin disease. (If they speak in tongues, they may have heard of Pentecost, but I wouldn't count on it.) They've heard of Saint Patrick's Day, but that's ethnic, not religious.

I'm not saying they aren't in chirch all the time, just that without liturgy one day is no different from another. I find this ironic, because without Epiphany and Peter's vision in Acts 10 (and a few odd scattered verses), no one not born Jewish would even be entitled to be a Christian.

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