Roll Call Thread......

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Roll Call Thread......
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Thu, 04-02-2009 - 4:49pm

There are a lot of new posters out there and some old faces, lets all introduce ourselves again...


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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:15pm
Not in any polite society I've ever been a part of.
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:16pm

The church is open to anyone who wants to attend church sponsored, open events: weekly services, special mid-week services, bible study classes, scripture meditation, etc. These events are publicized in the newsletter, weekly bulletins, and on the website.

If someone has hired the church or any part of the building for an event, then the openness of the church is at their discretion. Groups rent various meeting rooms during the week for various purposes. The sanctuary is rented for concerts, memorials, weddings, and other purposes. Unless it was a publicly advertised event, aside from being invited to one of these events, you would only know they were happening if you looked at the master facilities calendar, kept by the office manager.

So the building could very well be "open" (doors unlocked, people going in and out) but that doesn't mean just anyone can wander in and participate at any time.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:17pm
As you said, that is YOUR experience. That is not the experience of others. Which is all we're trying to say.
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:18pm

So to sum up, invitations & whose name on them, just do not mean that much to you. You just go.
That doesn't make it right, as many have been saying all along. It does seem to be a "wedding crasher tradition" that is tolerated.

"And while the bride/groom might invite you. If there is nothing saying their ceremony is closed, anyone can attend no matter if they were given a personal invitation from the bride/groom orally or from other friends/family. I have been to ceremonies where my parents were invited to the reception and I was not and was not told personally I could could be there. It is usually just known you are welcome to attend a ceremony even if you are not invited to the reception."




Edited 4/21/2009 3:20 pm ET by keepsgettingbetter
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:18pm
Because you said you lived there.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:19pm
While it may be more "popular" for the RCC, I have been to other churches that welcome anyone into a church ceremony.
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:19pm
I don't know where she sat during the ceremony. I assume with the invited friend she came with. The reception was not a sit-down thing.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:20pm
Hey, we had a Cub Scout banquet at a church last night.
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:23pm

Yes & CNut seems to be saying unless you send out notice that it is a closed event, anyone is invited. Did you notify "everyone" that your cub scout meeting was closed?

Really it sounds like a 4 year old saying--But she didn't say that I COULDN'T come!!!!!!

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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:24pm

It isn't that weird or rude at all in the Boston area (which I know eg3d isn't in, but still). Maybe because the Boston area has one foot still in Europe, but people will go to wedding masses they weren't invited to partly because you are supposed to go to mass every week and a wedding mass "counts" and partly because it's a neighborhood thing. The LOLs (Little Old Ladies) will sometimes be seen at the wedding mass of the son or daughter of somebody they are acquainted with in the neighborhood. Not acquainted well enough to be invited, but more of a neighbors-you-know-ish sort of acquaintance. While this would clearly get them labeled as rude if they stepped out of the Boston area bubble, around here it really isn't an issue.

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