Visit to St. Patricks

Tonight, we visited the East side church plant of our home church, King of Kings called St. Patrick's. It is a home church for now, but with full evening service and communion. It was the first time we had taken the boys out at night and it went really well. The boys did great! We had to leave a bit earlier than we would have preferred simply due to poor planning on our part but next time we will make sure we have a place for them to sleep in case we want to stay longer. My Messianic background has familiarized me with liturgical services to the point where I am very comfortable using a prayer book. John's experience in the Messianic movement was less liturgical, but he also has a Catholic background - long story - which makes him more familiar with the order of service in an Anglican church than I am. I have been struck by the parallels in Anglican liturgy to some of the Jewish liturgy that I am more familiar with, particularly the "Holy Holy Holy" portions of the prayer book. In the Jewish tradition, we lift our heels off the floor during "Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh" symbolizing with our bodies our reaching toward God's holiness. I don't notice the same bodily reflection in the Anglican church, but the words are similar. Of course the liturgies share sources and thus commonalities. For dinner we enjoyed baked potatoes, very quickly consumed on our way out the door to feed our ravenous boys. John's potato waited until we were actually at home, since he held both babies so I could get some dinner, thanks honey;) We also had some good red wine during dinner, which I was able to enjoy while nursing the boys in the back of the house at the end of service. =)