I mentioned recently how a Dopp kit would be a good case for carrying communion supplies for home or hospital and an alternative to the junk so often sold by church supply houses. I mentioned I had an alternative for communion cups, too. I can’t find a good generic term for what I have in mind. They… Continue reading Alternate cups for communion
Category: Sacraments
Dopp bag for communion
Last month, I wrote “In place of cheap church gear” and now let me suggest you use an old Dopp bag (or Dopp kit, or shaving kit) to keep your portable communion kit. The kit itself can be assembled from Nalgene-type bottles for the bread and wine. The other vessels (and linens and candles, if… Continue reading Dopp bag for communion
In place of cheap church gear
Hubby and I wandered into a well-known church supply house on Saturday. I was struck by how shabby so much of the gear and books looked. Were the 1980s and 1990s the high mark for church design? Must everything come in plastic. Consider the home communion set made of a plastic clamshell box (which will… Continue reading In place of cheap church gear
Imagining the lovefeast as a universal feast
Tonight and tomorrow night, millions of Jews will observe the Passover: a celebration of God’s deliverance from slavery. I’ve never been to one, tempting as family associations and food are. (I have, in my college days, had leftovers shared with me.) I’m OK having never attended a seder, and I would be just as happy… Continue reading Imagining the lovefeast as a universal feast
Software for that comparative liturgy project
A few days ago, I suggested a common dependence on Frederick Henry Hedge’s translation of the Liturgy of St. James for Unitarian, Universalist and Free Christian communion practice. Rashly I said would create a parallel text showing this development if I could find the software to typeset it. I think I found what I was… Continue reading Software for that comparative liturgy project
A common communion use in Unitarian, Universalist and Free Christian churches
Something for me to put a pin in, and for perhaps someone else. I suspect that most of the common, historic Unitarian, Universalist and Free Christian communion rites — those descended from King’s Chapel excepted, but including James Martineau’s — can be traced back to Frederick Henry Hedge’s translation of the Liturgy of St. James.… Continue reading A common communion use in Unitarian, Universalist and Free Christian churches
Say no five times (sure to irritate everyone)
Two weekends ago, Hubby and I went to IKEA, going most of the way by subway. On the ride, we made a list of habits and practices that we would not accept in the new church. In a low moment, we thought the church just might as well have no people — that’s one way… Continue reading Say no five times (sure to irritate everyone)
IKEA for communion ware
It’s been almost five years since I’ve written about using items from the Swedish dry-goods store IKEA for ecclesiastic purposes, but then Hubby and I don’t own a car anymore and it takes an effort to get to our nearest outlet. But we did so yesterday, and enjoyed ourselves down to the meatball-free dinner in… Continue reading IKEA for communion ware
An old reflection on what it means to be a Universalist church
A continuing concern of mine is what makes a Universalist church Universalist. I’ve gotten hints from liturgies and speeches, but nothing helps so well as polity documents, which tell more than they intend. So when I found the badly-typeset 1873 constitution and bylaws of the (extant) Halifax, Nova Scotia Universalist church, I was touched and… Continue reading An old reflection on what it means to be a Universalist church
A familiar profession from the Brazilian Unitarians
Even though I took Portuguese as my required language at the University of Georgia, I never really got the hang of it, and so after twenty years I go to Google (rather than my own skill) to read the site of the Congregação Unitarista de Pernambuco, no Brasil. That is, in Brazil. (And that’s about… Continue reading A familiar profession from the Brazilian Unitarians