Questions for ELCA members [View all]
Have your services become more "high church" since the LCA became the ELCA? How do you feel about it?
I miss the simplicity of the LCA that I was confirmed in. We used to celebrate communion once a month. Now it is every week. We did not receive ashes on Ash Wednesday back then. Now all the ELCA churches in my community dispense them. The pastor of a large; old ELCA church now genuflects at the altar and crosses himself.
Nothing wrong with those practices for people who like them. Catholics have been doing those things for centuries. But for me; it is so different from what I grew up with that I feel like a hypocrite if I follow along with it. The litugy has changed; too.
Maybe I'm just an old lady who does not adjust to change well; but I feel like so much emphasis is now on ceremony that I miss some of the quiet contemplation and sincerity of the older; simpler services.
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