The traditional Easter greeting and response is, in English, “Christ is risen!” and “He is risen indeed!” PeaceBang and I — as real, talking people — have been known to greet one another the same way in Greek and Slavonic.
Here’s your chance to get in on the fun, in a number of languages.
Easter (Paschal) Greeting […]
Well, I’m a bit hacked at a certain church near the Day Job. Their website promised an ecumenical Good Friday service at noon, but neglected to add thatit wasn’t at their church. Hmph!
I don’t fast on Good Friday in the usual sense, but will abstain from meat and cooked food, but since I am […]
Just a reminder of my posting this time last year, where I introduced to some of you, “The Dream of the Rood”:
“The Passion†meets “The Lord of the Rings†this Saturday
Here’s a paragraph in a stream of interesting thoughts (more on that later) by Doug Rogers and quoted by Paul Wilczynski:
An institution that is unable to re-formulate itself to become more attractive to potential members is not likely to endure. Religions tend to fade slowly, but they do disappear. Quakers were once a powerful part […]
I know a lot of y’all are on the perpetual hunt for readings: the kind of thing that serves like a sermon, or if you write them, in a sermon.
I was looking on the Washington Episcopal diocese website for a place to go to service tonight — the nearby St. Luke’s is having a 7pm […]
Why is Maundy Thursday called Maundy Thursday?
This is the easy one. Maundy is the English derivation of the Latin mandamus, meaning commandment, as in “A new commandment I give unto you: Love one another as I have loved you.”
Neato.
Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?
Here, I’ll draw from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia:
From the earliest […]
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 are […]
March 23 is the death anniversary of two Universalist hymn-writers. Given there weren’t all that many, this is a significant coincidence.
Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) was born in England but grew up in the United States, where he eventually became a Universalist minister. He was in his 30s when he wrote his hymns, or rather when […]
Now that I have your attention . . . .
One of my Christmas presents was Jaroslav Pelikan’s Credo: Historical and Theological Guide the Creeds and Confessions in the Christian Tradition. I am just now getting around to reading it.
It is an overview of the multivolume Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition, and […]
In case you were wondering, the typeface for the nameplate is from that “giver of all good things typographic,” Manfred Klein.
It is FreeBradbury
I wanted something unicase (no distinction between upper and lower case) because most (all?) of the early Christian documents were in unicase letterforms. But it needn’t be antique, and should preferably have a […]
