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Thread #149160 Message #3471938
Posted By: DMcG
27-Jan-13 - 04:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Sacristan Duties
Subject: RE: BS: Sacristan Duties
I don't have a problem with things being done for aesthetic reasons either, Joe. Not so much because they 'look nice' as because they can make it very difficult for some people to concentrate if what they see appears haphazard and untidy. But that falls into a different category than saying do-this-because-I-say-so, in my mind. The example I gave on the folding the cloth was not to imbue it with a specific meaning, but as an attempt to illustrate how some people can use a ritual to feed their understanding, and there is no requirement for that idea to come from the authorities. On other occasions, though, the authorities may say 'we do it this way to help understand such and such', which may work for you, or it may not.
Maybe examining the cloth handling discussed above was not a good example, but I hope the gist is clear enough.