Simplicity defended. (Letters).Dear editor, It is perversely per·verse adj. 1. Directed away from what is right or good; perverted. 2. Obstinately persisting in an error or fault; wrongly self-willed or stubborn. 3. a. amusing that critics of vestments vestments, garments worn by ecclesiastics in ceremonial functions. The cassock, a close-fitting gown buttoning down the front and reaching to the feet, is not a vestment so much as the daily uniform of the Western priest. , quoted in the May editorial, would reject vesture derived from the dress of the period of the earliest Christian communities in favour of a form of vesture exclusively medieval in origin. Sadly, the detractors of vesture--with one exception--display a lack of knowledge and a subjectivity which are inappropriate to any meaningful discussion of the issue at hand. The exception is found in the charming verses submitted by Evangeline Murray Murray, river, Australia Murray, principal river of Australia, 1,609 mi (2,589 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, and flowing westward to form the New South Wales–Victoria boundary. with reference to simplicity. Simplicity of form and decoration is precisely the quality which characterized char·ac·ter·ize tr.v. character·ized, character·iz·ing, character·iz·es 1. To describe the qualities or peculiarities of: characterized the warden as ruthless. 2. the vesture of early Christendom, and is still the defining feature of the best examples of vesture of our present era. K. Corey Keeble Toronto |
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