Note to self (and others): after nine years of blogging, I think I’m going to keep blogging — I like it — but move to a shorter format, with occasional project-oriented longer pieces and perhaps some theological items. (And the weekly preaching texts and prayers to finish up the year.)
More tumblr than features. Perhaps eta da Esperanto.
What it means. In short, a promotion of web standards, particularly the differentiation of web content and design. The site will return to normal tomorrow.
All of the posts this week will somehow be reflections on themes that came up at Revival, or promises for resources made there (including the lectionary text series). It was a pretty good event, and so goood to visit with friends, colleagues and readers. Stay tuned.
I´m moving to the Dvorak keyboard to preserve my wrists. Simple, yes? Here´s a case for it. And some software — multi-OS — named for the Esperanto word for keyboard.
Typed in Dvorak.
I´m changing over to the Dvorak keyboard: a slow process of unlearning the QWERTY keyboard.
The typeface on the blog will look good and bad this weekend as I redecorate. I appreciate your patience.
I’ve just added the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin and now when you visit an individual post, you are presented follow-on reading from the the 8½ years of this blog’s archives. Enjoy.
As you can see, the first option below is quite appropriate.
Well, gang. I’m back from my vacation. It was refreshing to see some interesting things and a visit with friends. I also have some ideas that I hope will make this blog a bit more interesting.
But for now, and for the record, let me post the lectionary texts I missed in the meantime.
It’s worth noting the sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, on Ocotber 2, was also World Communion Sunday, observed in some churches, including a handful of Unitarian Universalist churches, and would be a good time to have communion if it’s an infrequent or restored observance. I’m going to try and add in some special observances, especially since All Souls is coming.
The seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost was October 9.
Free Church Book of Common Prayer (1929)
O Lord, we beseech thee, let thy continual piety cleans and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ out Lord. Amen.
Epistle: Eph. iii. 13-21 (end)
Gospel: Luke vii., 11-17
A book of prayer for the church and the home (Universalist, 1866)
O merciful God, who art a Father to all thy people; grant that thy holy gospel may be proclaimed in the uttermost parts of the earth, gladdening the hearts of all who hear it; and, O blessed Lord, so fetch thy wanderers home to thy flock that there may be one fold under one shepherd. Amen.
Epistle: St. Luke vii. 11.
Gospel: Ephes. iii. 13.
Today, October 16, 2011 is the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
Free Church Book of Common Prayer (1929)
Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Epistle: Eph, iv. 1-6
Gospel: Luke xiv, 1-11
A book of prayer for the church and the home (Universalist, 1866)
O tender and merciful Father, who dost sustain those who suffer for righteousness’ sake, and hast made the blood of the martyrs the seed of the Church; grant, we beseech thee, that we may readily made the sacrifices that may be required of us for the good of mankind, and that all our sufferings may be sweetened by that love of thee which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Gospel: St. Luke. xiv. 1.
Epistle: Ephes. iv. 1.
I’ll either be blogging heavily about an odd mix of items over the next two days because I’m bored, or very little because the power will be out (or because I’m enraptured by the storm.) I live-blogged the last hurricane threat we had — in 2003 — and included in that post an hurricane-appropriate hymn and a short litany from historic Universalist sources.
Join in the rapture by listening to the is-this-what-the-future-was-to-be http://youarelistening.to/irene and looking at images, like the one following, from NASA. (Click the picture for the source page.) It’s now my computer’s desktop image.
Stay safe, and spare a prayer particularly for the frightened, first responders and caught travelers.
