dral, which announced changes in their liturgies.  Now they are embarking on what they call: "offering balanced language liturgies."  Balanced language.  I don't want to be critical about the Cathedral church - but I had to laugh at the term "balanced language". It is more like a juggling act!!   Not only are they changing the Lord's Prayer, Nicene Creed and the blessing, amongst other things - these balanced language liturgies go out of their way to avoid referring to Jesus and the Father as Him, or Lord, or Almighty.  We can't say that Jesus is a man, or that God is Lord and Almighty, lest someone get upset!

And so in the Mass responses they avoid using the word Him when they refer to God and Jesus.  For instance when the priest says: "Lift up your hearts ", and goes on to say: "Let us give thanks unto our Lord God", the response is changed from: "It is right to give Him thanks and praise." Such changes use God instead of Him repeatedly. The grammar is appalling. I would say it is "unbalanced language", because it is also unbiblical. For example, the blessing you will receive at the end of Mass at the Cathedral from now on is "In the name of the Majesty, incarnate Word, and the abiding spirit." 

Jesus said the names of the Trinity are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father is majestic, and the Son is the incarnate Word, and the Spirit is abiding - but that's not the names we find in the bible.  I am not sounding off, or giving a political sermon - I believe it has a lot to do with us, because we are different. It seems that some Episcopal parishes and people keep changing liturgy to be more up to date than last week whereas here at All Saints' we will be continuing the same.  Therefore to some, we will seem quaint, odd, bizarre, caught in a time warp - yesterday's men and women, they might say! After all, who uses the word "Thou "in language anymore?

Does Anglo - Catholic mean we are caught in a time warp, odd