USA television has been saturated the past week or so by ads of the retailer, JC Penney, who is calling attention to the fact that it is giving up "sales" in...
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Douglas Cowling
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Feb 2, 2012 12:02 am
... Several years ago there was an Apple or Microsoft computer ad that ran with the Mozart ³Confutatis Maledictis² in the background. Doug Cowling Director...
List seems to be silent lately. All must be repenting ahead of time! Anyone doing the gesima thing? Getting the ashes ready? Taking purple vestments to the...
In prelent we do talk about a rule of life for Lent, and how some of the things we do for Lent, we may wish to continue. Shalom b'Yeshua haMoshiach  +Mar...
I'm still in the weeks after Epiphany (BCP79), but I'm pondering how I might observe Lent more positively than last year, when I seem to have alternated...
I can see how those -gesima Sundays served a useful purpose of helping people to plan their Lenten discipline. Homilists might want to consider providing...
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Douglas Cowling
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Feb 10, 2012 5:25 am
... Gee, what about Mardi Gras? Doug Cowling Director of Music St. Philip's Church, Etobicoke Toronto...
Well, Doug, you have to already be in pretty good shape properly to celebrate Mardi Gras (at least in the New Orleans tradition -- which in Minnesota we term...
In New Orleans we have been celebrating Carnival (farewell to flesh) since Twelfth Night, with growing intensity, until finally we reach the day itself,...
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Douglas Cowling
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Feb 10, 2012 3:54 pm
... Reminds me of our year at St. Jean-de-Malte in Aix-en-Provence where the city kept up a touristy carnaval all through Lent. As we listened to a marching...
Reminds me of when I was doing my parish internship: One family gave me a large chocolate last supper. I wasn't sure whether we were intended to eat it or...
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Douglas Cowling
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Feb 10, 2012 9:45 pm
... I always enjoyed the TV commercials from the big Polish bakery in Buffalo which in Eastertide offered a deal on slab cakes for confirmation and first ...
When I lived in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, I was always interested how rigidly the Frankfurters were about ending the fasching season, which, like New Orleans,...
Hello, how are you? This is something ANYONE can do! read it! http://new.maweni.com/files/thumbnails/level2/7112/8536/9026/flirndlg.html ... To be conscious...
So Arthur - Are you a real person who's gotten hacked? Or are you entirely a phish? Inquiring minds want to know.... Scott...
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Douglas Cowling
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Feb 18, 2012 1:29 am
" Essentially, what wasn¹t in itself a sacred rite i.e. the creation of new cardinals became part of the liturgy, and in this way it was ³placed in a...
Welcome to the "New Normal." They are, after all, "Princes of the Church;" aren't they entitled to a sacrament of their own? Lew On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:29...
Cardinalhood is not a sacrament because we are into minimalism. Some protestants say there are only two sacraments. The Roman church is serious about...
In the spirit of Vatican II, I would argue that there are two sacraments, Christ and his Church, and that all we call "sacraments" or "sacramental rites" are...
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Douglas Cowling
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Feb 19, 2012 7:15 pm
... Interesting that the NT Times, which correctly used the euphemisms of ³creating² and elevating², today fell afoul of faux-sacramentality: ³Ten of the...
Hello Ormonde, Can Christ be a sacrament? In Christ, Sandford MacLean Sent from my iPhone ... Hello Ormonde, Can Christ be a sacrament? In Christ, Sandford...
Christ is the outward and visible sign of God, and the Church is the outward and visible sign of Christ. Ormonde Plater From: liturgy-l@yahoogroups.com...
... How can the Eucharist be the outward and visible sign of the Body of Christ when it is the Body of Christ? Isn't that the whole idea behind Aquinas's idea...
Hi Daniel, I believe the outward and visible sign of the Holy Eucharist is bread and wine, and not the Body ( and Blood of Christ ), which are the inward and...
It depends on how you define sacrament. In a sacrament (indeed, in semiology as a philosophy as well as a theology) the sign is what it signifies. I realize...
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Douglas Cowling
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Feb 20, 2012 12:03 am
"When one looks at what is going on in the Holy See, the message regarding the human shortcomings of clerics that the then cardinal Ratzinger had pronounced...
