Hubby and I attended church twice on Easter Sunday: in the morning with the pleasantly-Protestant Presbyterians and in the afternoon with the Church of Two Worlds (no website), a Spiritualist church in Georgetown. Why the Spiritualists? Well, the church, though nearby, is an almost-unknown curiosity. Second, at one point, about half of the Universalist ministerial… Continue reading Easter Sunday with the Spiritualists
Category: Saints
St. Nicholas was good
Ms. Theologian noted a story about an Oregon Washington man who put up a Santa crucifix in his yard, to protest the commercialization of Christmas. Great idea. But rather than getting het up about Jesus getting left out, I feel for St. Nicholas, who has become a shill for shopping and saturated fat. The real… Continue reading St. Nicholas was good
Croeso!
Today is Saint David’s Day, the patron saint of Wales. His shrine (where some think lie his remains) is in a town (technically a city) of the same name, in the traditional county of Pembrokeshire. This seems to be a good time to recall that Universalist son of Pembrokeshire, James Relly. And in case you… Continue reading Croeso!
Mo’ than ho ho ho: Happy St. Nicholas’s Day
St. Nicholas is very cool, and today is his feast day in some countries, which is cause of gift-giving. He is associated with sailors, harbors, brides, children and sundry others due to miracles associated with the fourth-century bishop from Asia Minor. A people’s saint, and quite the pastor in life I gather. The Wikipedia article… Continue reading Mo’ than ho ho ho: Happy St. Nicholas’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day means . . .
I’ll point my readers to St. Patrick’s Breastplate. Last year’s article, with the full text
Christmas commercialism early
I’m an odd one: when people mention St. Nicholas I first think of the defender of the faith with the feast on December 6. It seems, his hometown has gone Coca-Commercial, and has moved their main square “religious” statue in lieu of one more fitting for a greeting card. The Germans like it; the Russians… Continue reading Christmas commercialism early
St. Patrick’s Breastplate
You can keep your corned beef (even though I had a Reuben for lunch) and your beer (who are we kidding?) but for St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll call up the St. Patrick’s Breastplate or Lorica, which “invokes God’s protection on a journey (either literal or the metaphorical ‘journey of life’) against all manner of evils,… Continue reading St. Patrick’s Breastplate
A spiritual home for the lamb
PeaceBang told a little story of a little lamb (“A lamb of the stage“) that swaps its future as dinner for the easy life on a farm. (Not that I’m opposed to eating a little lamb at Easter. Or a little goat. Both are delicious, and sometimes hard to tell apart.) But when I read… Continue reading A spiritual home for the lamb
Forget not the monuments . . .
The front page letter at Anglicans Online this week reminds us western Christians of our all-too-often unawareness of the dead who dwell in Light Eternal as the Church Triumphant. We forget their presence in heaven, because we miss them on earth. How often do we regard the graves of the dead, even the dead we… Continue reading Forget not the monuments . . .
Online article about Elhanan Winchester
I’m taking as much time as I can afford and going back to the roots. In the process, I found a good article about Elhanan Winchester, one of the more underappreciated ancestors of faith. What I like particularly is that the writer integrates the former’s American and London ministries. Do note that a typo or… Continue reading Online article about Elhanan Winchester