Hello, I would be interested to know thoughts from worshippers about how candlemass liturgy was in your community. In particular, where all ages participating,...
Just coming home from being sacristan at our Candlemas/Presentation liturgy, I could englighten you to how we did things. The liturgy began with a Candlemas...
The Candlemass (@ Mt Olive Luth) procession also carried the voices of the children's choir (schola cantorei). Their angelic voices heightened the awareness of...
Yesterday I was at two Candlemas celebrations: The first, at St. John's Anglican in Hamilton Ontario, where I am music director, was pretty much like a...
William Renwick
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Feb 3, 2003 3:27 pm
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This was done at Ascension, Chicago, yesterday, and I can report that Sandford MacLean, esteemed listsib, and his family took part. It was great to meet them!...
... The tradition of the blessing of throats on St Blaise day which somehow these days gets combined sometimes with Candlemass. Way back it was a separate...
Yes, we had a Candlemas celebration in our rural RC parish. The ceremony followed the liturgical books before the regular mass: blessing all the candles...
The blessing of throats is either done today, the feast of Saint Blaise, or, as was done in many parishes, yesterday as an "add-on" at the end of the Mass for...
Ray Gadke
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Feb 3, 2003 3:43 pm
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Hi Scott and Liturgists, We had Solemn High as usual for the Presentation in the morning and Solemn Evensong for the Feast, Procession to "Daily, Daily" i.e....
... My understanding is that the blessing of throats customarily takes place on the following day (St. Blaise, even though it's Anskar in the Episcopal ...
... Ah yes, good old St. Blasé, patron of the indifferent. For some reason it has become popular for parishes to do the throat blessing appointed for today on...
In a message dated 2/3/2003 10:29:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Although in recent years we at St Paul's K Street DC have included the Candlemas liturgy in...
dlewisaao@...
Feb 3, 2003 4:25 pm
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At the church I went to, a minor basilica which shall remain nameless, I arrived during the opening hymn, so I couldn't tell if anything had happened first. I...
... Actually, the gizmo used for throat blessings does resemble a divining rod except the difference is that a divining rod is held in both hands at the top of...
Ray wrote: "The candles used in the blessing of throats are among the ones blessed at the ceremony at the beginning of Mass for the Candlemass part of the...
Chris wrote:" It's a Y-shaped metal contraption with a wooden handle on one end, and short tubes on the other ends that you can stick the candles into. You...
I wrote earlier: " The candles used for the blessing of throats are blessed especially for that purpose" The blessing may be given at any time, and not just...
on 2/3/03 11:29 AM, Christian McConnell <cdmcconnell@...> at ... Is this covered by medical insurance plans? Doug Cowling ...
Douglas Cowling
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Feb 3, 2003 7:37 pm
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on 2/3/03 10:41 AM, shane4034 <mrteacher4034@...> at ... Celebrating one's name was popular in Mozart's Vienna: in fact we have just passed his name day:...
Douglas Cowling
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Feb 3, 2003 7:45 pm
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... No, but I should point out, in the interest of full discloser, that since I am a medical doctor, and I advocated a course of action which might reduce ...
Hi Sandford and Litugists, The simple answer is that multiple commemoration is seen today by almost all liturgists as bad liturgy. That means we have to...
The local Tridentines had the solemn blessing of candles just after the processional hymn. The Solemn High Mass started 20 minutes late, for unexplained...
cantor03@...
Feb 3, 2003 11:05 pm
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There's a St. Anskar's Episcopal Church in Rockford, Illinois, an area that has a lot of Swedish heritage. ... Anskar, in ... [http://www.askar.org ], in that ...
... Toronto has a Lutheran church with the proud sign: "St. Anskar, Apostle of the North" Doug Cowling ...
Douglas Cowling
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Feb 3, 2003 11:19 pm
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... Ah, but my favourite Toronto church name is the United Church on Bond St., named after the brother of the Lord. Yep ... "St. James-Bond United Church". ...
Chris wrote: "Ah, but my favourite Toronto church name is the United Church on Bond St., named after the brother of the Lord. Yep ... "St. James-Bond United...
... I may have mentioned this before but in Altoona Pa there is Christ Second Lutheran Church. Bob + + + + + + + + + + + Every thing that is done in the world...