thread: 2007-01-10 : Some questions about worship
On 2007-01-11, Graham Walmsley wrote:
I'm a churchgoer, as in Church of England.
There's an idea of worshipping God through something else: like when you pray to the Virgin Mary, you're not really worshipping her, you're worshipping God. If you kiss a crucifix, you're not doing anything to the crucifix, you're worshipping God-through-the-crucifix.
That's how I'd interpret the sustainers: it's God-through-the-food or God-through-the-family.
As for the song, I think it's a prayer. We often sing our prayers in church (the sung Agnus Dei is interchangeable with the spoken Agnus Dei).
