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Originally Posted by highway80west  TW, I was raised Episcopalian, and still am. For a time, though, I went to a baptist church, where I found it a little too harsh. Even I was discriminated against in another Episcopal church, so I moved on to where I am now.
Being where I am, I have a few ministries: acolyting, chalicing, lecturer (if I will ever be scheduled to do it again), altar guild, and a licensed eucharistic minister LEM). The very latter is when I take communion to people who are physically unable to come to church.
So I take a service folder just for LEM's. After a reading, psalm, gospel, there is a review of the sermon that I and a partner who goes with me hears from the preacher. After the Lord's Prayer, I distribute communion.
So I guess in a way I feel like a full-fledged minister. However, one needs to go to seminary. I don't know if a college degree is required, or what goes on in seminary. But if there are any tests given even though I study hard, I am afraid of not doing well on tests. Something just escapes my mind when it comes to taking tests.
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Some people have started a Pagan seminary, but my training is all from a private teacher, which is the more "old school" way to do it in Wicca and Paganism. But all in all, it was about 3 years worth of training, and I am considered as eligible to start my own coven within the tradition. I have the legitimacy to be a minister within the Pagan community, and I'd like to do my part to have that legitimacy recognized outside it as well. |