Thank you!

Figure of speech? Ie “enough to fill 12 baskets”. Not necessarily that they actually put them in baskets.

“It was 5 football fields long”

We use “gallons” this way. Both a precise measurement, an object (milk), and a general idea of an amount.

I need to uh, work on my Latin, but this is really surprising and interesting. What’s the reference exactly? I want to find it.

At my home altar often a bell, light two candles, sometimes say the antiphon on the hymn from the English Office “All praise to God the Father be, all praise eternal Son to thee, all glory as is ever meet to God the Holy Paraclete, Amen” whilst lighting. Then a bit of the Jesus Prayer after that.

Fun fact though: Colossae had a major shrine in honor of St. Michael. Interesting in light of the thing about worshipping angels.

And in spite of it being only (3) above, it’s given us one of the most majestic passages about the kingship of Jesus over all things! ⚓️

After Epiphany is a good idea. I may try that!

Forgot the ⚓️

Huh! My experience has been the opposite. All previous places I’ve been in never used the contemporary version (nor here, only prayed it at Diocese events) so the modern one feels odd on my tongue I’ll admit

That’s quite the description! “Let us pray in the slightly modernized traditional ecumenical words our Savior Christ hath taught us”

Really good! My only caveat is I think resurrection means more still than alive to God after physical death. There will be a physical redemption of material creation in which we’re raised as Jesus was raised in glorified material bodies. B/c bodies and creation matter to God.

You might be pleased to know then that I just use the altar book as is here, so avoid that problem, ha!

But I can see that useful for that purpose.

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As a former Baptist I’ve often complained about this. Our church is comparatively awful at mass producing resources for average families to grow in their faith and learn more. And when we do it’s a lot of negative “here’s extras not true” than “here’s what we believe and how you can live it”

Possibly. I might count a few samples then. My suspicion is they’re less than that, but could be.

Do you have an equivalent of our Veterans Day? We also have an Armed Forces Day for active and retired. Not as well known, but I’m near a large base with a lot of military in our church so it’s important here.

Sure - not “martyr”! Red would be inappropriate. I think the requiem aspect is fine, no more martyrdom than All Souls or a funeral. Just praying for their repose. We only have a special service for Memorial and I use black. Vet Day we just do a recognition Sunday morning.

I can see that. Honestly the best way forward on that would be a GC resolution that states it as a “Doctrine”. Often those types of resolutions sound as if written by the UN. Then it can be Church Doctrine by definition.