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    The CCSL organ, sort of

    Here's a PooTube showing the insides of Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney. Anglo-Catholic (bells and smells). Not very good quality but shows of our little parish church in the heart of the city, nicely.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vn1cvKSWHg

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    It looks and sounds very English!!

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    Well, it's quite Anglo-Catholic and our UK visitors always feel very at home. However it isn't "high church" ...

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    What a pretty church. Is that you playing the organ? It sounds nice
    and seems to look the size of the one at my church. It looks kind of
    like the Methodist one I go to with the exception of carpet. Here's
    what the Methodist church looks like where I go on the inside.
    judy tooley
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    Beautiful church, David ...

    Beautiful organ, too - was that Peter Jewkes practicing?
    That's got to be a little unnerving always practicing to an audience ... hopefully he can get some time in a the organ when the building is closed to visitors.
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    If someone comes and visit the United Methodist Church in my picture,
    the public is allowed to visit the sanctuary there. Our church is open.
    The only problem is we don't have a visitor's guide. Everyone is welcome
    to see this beautiful building and take a look at our history.
    judy tooley

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    Lars - no, not Peter at the organ, his practice time is Saturday afternoons from 1 to 5pm, when the church is bolted shut. Monday to Friday it's open from 7am to 6pm for "daily prayer and meditation". We've had bronze candle sticks stolen in the past so now we put our plain, boring wooden ones. The streetpeople are also fond of deficating outside the church, it's part of having a church in the heart of a big city.
    I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
    —Albert Einstein.

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