All Saints'

[macwilkin]

Thanks for the opinions, all. I've pretty much decided to wear a kilt to All Saints service this Sunday. All Saints is all about connecting with the dead and departed, one's ancestors, and the saints and heroes of the church: many of these, in the Anglican and Episcopalian tradition, were kilted (consider the Samuel Seabury tartan, named after the first American Episcopal bishop). And so I am going for it. I understand and respect the motive of not wanting to draw attention away from the mass, but in this case a kilt is not as much a gesture of self-expression, but a nod of respect to tradition and one's forebearers, those who have gone before. I feel it fits the occasion.

Cirthalion

Interesting...Matt mentions an "Episcopal" tartan in his blog entry on the Clergy tartan...I wonder if this is the same as the "Samuel Seabury" tartan?

For those who are not aware, the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury was the first American Bishop in the Episcopal Church, consecrated by Bishops Skinner, Petrie and Kilgour in St. Andrew's Cathederal in Aberdeen on 14 November 1784.

Cheers,

Todd

[Martin S]

If something is right six days a week, how can it be wrong or sinful or unlawful on Sunday?

Or vice versa?

If mugs are wrong, they are wrong every day of the week, methinks.

Martin, firmly atheist, knowing there's no-one out there watching me.

[McClef]

Kiltiness is next to godliness.

If one wants to look smart in church I can't think of a better way of doing it.

It is written that God looks at the heart and not at the outward man so if the outward man is wearing a kilt I'm sure the Lord doesn't mind a bit.