does your church suck out of people for this event?

the urge to take a shit on others beliefs, huh?

about anyone's beliefs.

a perfectly benign phrase, I suppose.

Unless you know something about this particular organization that warrant such snot, I think it would be wise for you should keep your mouth shut.

Unless you want to look to everyone on the board like a bigot and a fool.

Which is your choice, a choice many members make here daily.

by can actually read what you DID in fact write?

your business.

it's more crass to ask about it, apparently.

There are no reserved seats.

We do not tithe

denominations recognize Maunday Thursday, but most protestants don't observe it...at least in my area..

I bet you have a busy weekend coming up. I hope it is lovely.

though evening services are hard for us on a school night. Our pastor is very cool about doing the 'off the beaten path' services... Tonight's message is about being of service to others, very cool. We have an organist too, it's always an amazing sound compared to just the piano...very old school. Glad you can play!

Tomorrow night, our church puts on the Tenebrae, the service of the darkening, which is really powerful and profound. This year i can finally bring the kids, they are old enough to 'get' it... and I have to say it is really a cool way to go into Easter weekend, allowing one to understand exactly how devastating it must have been for the disciples and family of Jesus to watch him die and think, "that's IT." they went home Friday evening thinking all hope was lost. And it makes the joy of Easter that much more beautiful...

just my 2 cents...

Sounds very interesting.

What kind of church is this?

The pastor & his wife are in their 30's, totally cool so cal surfer-types, he's got tatoos and she has a nose ring, they are adorable and really bring a lot of interesting stuff to the table. He majored in linguistics and so he has a knowledge of all these old time services that used to be performed in latin. We have wednesday Lent services and one week a month he does "contemporary sunday" where we sing more rock and he plays guitar. really fun.

Enjoy your weekend activities. When done right, Easter weekend can be the best time ever to be involved in a church.

I take the evening off, because only the choir section leaders are required to sing it at my church.

I wanted to share the feelings from tonight, thought you might appreciate it:

Good Friday: the Tenebrae
The "service of the darkening"...or of shadows, and it is the dark part of the easter story, it follows the last seven statements of Christ on the cross and as each part is contemplated...a candle is extinguished.
Then you leave the church in darkness and silence, in mourning... which makes the miracle of Easter that much more powerful and joyful

What I get out of it is different every time. It's really a profound thought, what must the disciples felt as Jesus died? They had no idea what was coming, for all they knew, it was OVER, their hope was done. They had been schooled for a couple years by this great teacher, and now he was gone...they thought he was there to deliver them from the Romans... To them, they had to plan a funeral now, and take care of his body, they had to look on his face and note the absence of his spirit there... how desolate they must have felt...

The passage of the last words spoken on the cross are also profound: forgiving a criminal next to him, forgiving the ones who nailed him up there, telling his mother that he was no longer her son, crying in abandonment, saying to God and them all that it was 'finished' (he completed his soul purpose) and then releasing himself to the Light... all of these are stages of faith we ALL go through no matter what our doctrine. and it never ceases to make me cry, truth has a way of doing that i guess.

I love that fact that my Pastor digs up these obscure old-world concepts...at least they are obscure to me!

http://www.kencollins.com/instructions/how-05.htm

Make sure you don't cook your food!

Maundy Thursday is in no way nationally recognized or conversed about. Why are you surprised that they didn't know about it?

And indeed, if the service did not take place, and the whole shebang was never even observed... by anyone... it would not make any significant difference whatsoever.

Except the church might not make as much money..... SUCK IT IN!









(I know. The truth hurts sometimes.)

And what about

Quasimodo???

No not the rapper! The Sunday after Easter. The reading is a lesson most churches completely ignore/don't get.

It's when Doubting Thomas became the "1st convert"... or that's what most sermons are usually about. They ignore the real lesson, which is Thomas didn't believe in an unbelievable event until he had put his hand in the wound of the risen Christ. IOW.... St Thomas require EMPIRICAL PROOF before he fell for an extraordinary story.


Anyway... the only reason I know about this special Sunday is because the Bach cantata for it is fantastic! BWV 67/a: "Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ..."