simont | General update

Back at work today, after two days of a cold. Except that when I came in this morning I had a horrifying sneezing fit which made it quite difficult to drive: I hope that's hayfever (for which this is roughly my peak season) rather than the remaining cold, in which case it should go away now I'm in the air-conditioned office. If it's the cold I might have to go home again, and I was getting restless.

Being off work with a mild cold is terrible for guilt, because I sit on the sofa, do nothing, and feel fine, making me feel bad that I'm at home. Fortunately (ish), at one point I ran out of food and had to go out shopping, and then I felt headachey and dizzy and that reminded me that I really was ill; but it's difficult to remember that when you're sitting on a comfy sofa and feeling OK.

In other news … the other day mpinna sent me a draft of the puzzle he's working on for my collection, which is worryingly good fun; I can tell it's a good one when my code review goes slowly because I keep stopping for just one more go. Then I sent back a mail which said ‘I'll be happy to accept this into the collection provided the following corrections are made’, which made me feel worryingly like a PhD examiner. Perhaps I should award a qualification for successfully submitting a puzzle. Puzzle Developer, or PzD for short :-)

At the weekend I watched cjwatson and ghoti get married, which was nice. The wedding was disturbingly Catholic; the congregation kept being expected to mutter ‘amen’ and ‘and also with you’ and similar miscellaneous stuff at various points, and in the absence of the usual cheat sheet I had absolutely no idea when it was appropriate to do any of this. Then they said the Hail Mary, of which I know virtually nothing beyond a vague feeling that I can guess the first two words. Then the Lord's Prayer showed up and I thought ‘thank goodness, something I do know’. Except that I didn't even know that, it turned out, because their version was two lines shorter than the one I knew. All of which, I think, conclusively demonstrates me to be a Protestant atheist.

Still, that wasn't a big problem. And there was a silly photo session, a mead-enabled reception, caterers who had specially provided gluten-free food for me (and a terrifying quantity of it too!), and all the usual good stuff. At one point my umbrella became filled with confetti, which was odd.

Anyway. Now I need to wade through a rather scary quantity of e-mail backlog from the two days I've been off work.

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Err, no it's not. At least, it never was at my dad's church, and it wasn't at Col and Kirstens wedding. OK, that's a small sample size, but it's 100% of all catholic services I've been to. What makes you say it's "usually" included?

Going to at least 10 churches in 2 dioceses in the UK, and two churches in France over a period of 20 years. This is a slightly larger sample size, though not huge ;)
The doxology wasn't included in the UK services until I was in my mid-teens (so, 10-15 years ago), as it was considered 'too Protestant' (err, this isn't the official way of saying it, but it's fairly true).
Weddings may be considered special liturgy (i.e. different from the usual liturgy of the Eucharist), and may therefore include the truncated version of the Our Father. I haven't been to a Catholic wedding in the UK ever, as far as I can recall, so that may be an exception to usual procedure.

Interestingly I went to a CoE service (a normal Sunday service) in August that used the truncated version.

evensong tends to use the truncated version, IME.

-m-

:)

It was still being excluded at my local catholic church (which was remarkably low, with lots of bearded men playing guitars) about 4 years ago. Maybe it's just up to individual priests?

Well, there's probably an official line. But half of Catholicism is about ignoring the official line.

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