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Last updated on: May 5, 2010 at 5:59 pm by Cathleen Falsani

2010-05-05T17:59:00-07:00 Cathleen Falsani

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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 faith

Delighting 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!

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