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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all the same person posting. I shouldn’t say get over yourselves... the ONE person posting who is trying to fake post multiple people should get over himself/herself/themselves.

I call troll.[/quote]

I don’t think so.  It’s so easy to call troll.  It’s a legit question on whether Nave is sacred space or not to hold such a frivolous event — not choral concert or spiritual discussion.  I guess no one in the Cathedral congregation has raised issues with it and just goes along.

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New poster, not the person to whom you're responding: Are you a member of the congregation, immediate PP who objects so strongly to these uses of the nave? I'm assuming not because you say you "guess no one in the congregation has raised issues." If you're not part of the congregation, do you attend services at or visit the Cathedral regularly? Do you donate or have you made even a one-time donation, since the earthquake? I'm asking seriously, not with snark.

I'm not sure why your concern is so intense unless you personally have a relationship with the Cathedral. I visit several times a year (am a member elsewhere) both for contemplation and for services, but would not presume to tell the regularly attending, regularly donating congregation how to manage the building. I fully admit I don't love the idea of social functions in the nave but then, I am not privy to what the needs there are, so I'm not going to let it bother me. They're not holding these events (as far as I can tell from photos) in the choir area that leads to the high altar or in the solemn Holy Spirit or war memorial chapels, just in the nave.

You might want to look up a New York Times article from Aug. 13, 2019: "God save the cathedral: In England, some offer mini golf or a giant slide." Sorry I can't link it for you. The Cathedral here is not at all alone in using its nave for non-religious activities and leaders at other cathedrals have pastoral reasons for doing so. You will disagree with the churches in the article but just know that the Cathedral is not some outlier doing something no other cathedrals do. [/quote]

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