I recently read a post on another list (HOBD) where a Priest described their intentional reversal of this rubric (receiving last after everyone else) as "a sign of servant leadership" I do not believe they were trying to be ironic.
I don't want to get off on a rant here, but:
1. Doesn't a good servant obey the rubrics?
2. The tradition, as understand, it was that the lowliest servant tasted the dish first, so that the least valuable slave was the one poisoned.
eg. King's Food Taster wanted - lifetime employment assured.
3. In Church precedence the ranking person goes last, at least that is what I tell the Bishop when I walk in front of him.
4. How do I, with integrity, tell the people "This is the Body, this is the Blood" if I haven't received the truth of it in my own mouth?
5. How is my reception at the last liturgically differentiated from the reverent consumption of the remains of Our Lord in the ablutions BCP 409?
So again addressing +Andy's first bullet,
• our particular manner of Sacramental ministry is:
Defiant of the rubrics?
Our own damn business?
Whatever innovation takes our whim?
Confused?
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Hoss+
