Mike+ & Bill+,

In defense of Dame Julian, I'm pretty sure she didn't name God as mother;
she probably indulged in a metaphor, which, in her day, seemed not to
threaten that from which all earthly fatherhood is named.

Out of context, however, and inserted into a latter-day setting, one can
only imagine what such verbiage may mean.

It reminds me of one of the epigrams from the New Oxford Book of Light
Verse:

Lives of great men oft remind us
As we o'er their pages turn,
That we too may leave behind us
Letters which we ought to burn.

Paul+


----- Original Message -----
From: "William H. Perkins, Jr.+" <wperkin2@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:22 AM
Subject: [FaithandLife] Rite 3


Guys+:

Was wondering how many of you have seen the ECUSA Rite 3 Trial liturgy?  It
has two collects by Julian of Norwich that refers to God as a "mother".  I
got a copy of it from someone who attends an episcopal church in town two
years ago.

Back in the late 90's they comitted themselves to revising the 1979 BCP as
they did the 1928 BCP.  The information on revising the 1979 use to be on
line as a report from a synod held in the late 1990's.

If you have seen it what do you think of it?

Bill+