Liturgical Fabulosity: I (Heart) Episcopalians
Just a little mid-week happy to put a smile on your face (hopefully.)
Sure did it for me. With thanks to Jen Grant.
THE PRAYERBOOK IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
Sung to the tune of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend”
By Jule Styne (words) and Leo Robin (music)
from Gentelmen Prefer Blondes (1953) starring Marilyn Monroe
“Prayer Book” lyrics written and performed
by Suzanne Guthrie
Christians are glad to die for faithDelighting in debate and doom
But I prefer a church that Lives
And Gives me wriggle room.
The Ninty-five Theses
Was Quite Continental
But the Prayerbook is a girl’s best friend
The Council of Dort
Would be elemental with its weighty tome
To a sense of home
Outside of Rome.
I can’t take the strain
Of so much on my brain
And we all get senile in the end
Psalm shape or collect shape
These prayers don’t lose their shape
The prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.
[The Litany!...The Eucharist! ]
Protestant thought
Can get complicated
So the Prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.
Some Catholics get fraught
Popes get agitated
When you don’t obey – for Anglicans
That’s not okay!
But a brainy mistake
Won’t send ME to the stake
And on doctrine I’m willing to bend,
“Scripture, Reason, Tradition”
You won’t get ME for sedition
The prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.
[Queen Bess! Gimme some of that Via Media!...Talk to me Tom Cramner!]
There may come a time
When church politics get dire
Then the prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.
There may come a time when
The Diocese requires
You to take a stand
And bravely raise your little hand -
It’ll all be polite -
No need to fist fight
But you’ll want your opinion to blend
I’ll know what to say
When I hear myself pray *
* (spoken) Lex orandi, lex credandi
The prayerbook…The prayerbook
Cramner’s Little Just DO IT, I DARE YA book
The prayerbook – is a girl’s best friend!
Amen!
That is one of the best things ever.