{"id":5763,"date":"2010-12-07T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2010-12-11T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T19:17:08","slug":"symmetry-in-the-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/07\/symmetry-in-the-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Symmetry in the sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a\u00a0monk once said at chapter meeting here, &#8220;Liturgists are people who think, if only we put the credence table in just the right place, THEN they&#8217;ll come.&#8221; In that spirit, an Anglican viewpoint on church priorities:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"404\" height=\"241\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cUq8n39ckKA&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>From the Rev. Bosco Peters &#8211; see his post on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liturgy.co.nz\/blog\/anglican-communion-crisis\/4761\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a monk once said at chapter meeting, &#8220;Liturgists are people who think, if only we put the credence table in just the right place, THEN they&#8217;ll come.&#8221; In that spirit, an Anglican viewpoint on church priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Symmetry in the sanctuary - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/07\/symmetry-in-the-sanctuary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Symmetry in the sanctuary - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a monk once said at chapter meeting, &quot;Liturgists are people who think, if only we put the credence table in just the right place, THEN they&#039;ll come.&quot; 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