Comments on: iMonk 101: Baptist Holy Days of Obligation

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:54:09 +0000

I too suffer from the obstacles you face. Distance, cremation, secularized cemeteries, etc… How drearily unimaginative. If I could indulge in some Chestertonian verse:

If I had been a heathen,
I’d have piled my pyre on high,
And in a great red whirlwind,
Gone roaring to the sky,
But Higgins is a heathen,
And a richer man than I,
And they put him in an oven,
As if he were a pie!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:16:34 +0000

You forgot any community service (the methodists and the baptists get together). Also the Christmas cantata service, which you attend to see everyone in the church singing in the choir for one night.

By: o.h.

o.h. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:14:21 +0000

Eat up the cakes, not the departed. Sorry for the zombie moment.

By: o.h.

o.h. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:13:27 +0000

Like my children would hesitate to eat a cake I left lying on the ground! No, we say a prayer for the departed, and eat ‘em up.

Anyway, I have no access to the graves of my ancestors, for all the modern American reasons: All of my immediate relatives are still alive; my departed grandparents are buried in other states; only a few of my dead relatives are actually buried anyway, most having opted for cremation.

Also, cemeteries seem to be locked up on Hallowe’en, for what I suppose are obvious reasons.

By: dac

dac — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:46:11 +0000

pretty much when AWANA stopped being KJV Only

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:13:49 +0000

LOL LOL LOL You nailed it!

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:13:51 +0000

Regarding soul cakes, do you leave them on the graves of your ancestors, as is customary in some places?

By: Christiane

Christiane — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:04:34 +0000

Yep. Bad spelling.
I’ve alway miss spelled (sp?) that word.
I should know better. To be ‘hallowed’ is to be blessed or holy,
as in ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name.’

Thanks for correction.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:45:35 +0000

And if you take Sunday night away, the apostasy reaches an even higher level yet!

So there’s another one I think.
*Must attend EVERY Sunday night service

By: o.h.

o.h. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:04:33 +0000

My St. Vincent de Paul chapter always had a St. Lawrence Day barbecue. Ah good times!

I totally agree with the food reason for observing the liturgical year. We’re making soul cakes for Satan’s Holiday, I mean Hallowe’en, this year. Dense and cookie-size, not as sweet as cookies, with a pinch of saffron. Mmmmmm. I recommend “A Continual Feast” for liturgically oriented tastiness. One of my favorite cookbooks.