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We are Lutherans (ELCA) and we commemorate the beginning of the Lenten season with the imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday.
But before that we enjoy Fasnacht! A night of games, pranks, skits and costumes. Good food and drink. The Feast before the fast. Sort of a Nordic-Germanic Mardi Gras.
I love the liturgical year. It coincides so closely with the natural year. I could not imagine attending a church that did not recognize these important times and traditions.
We are Lutherans (ELCA) and we commemorate the beginning of the Lenten season with the imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday.
But before that we enjoy Fasnacht! A night of games, pranks, skits and costumes. Good food and drink. The Feast before the fast. Sort of a Nordic-Germanic Mardi Gras.
I love the liturgical year. It coincides so closely with the natural year. I could not imagine attending a church that did not recognize these important times and traditions.
Lutherans are cool!
They also like the Blessed Virgin
Yes, we enjoy the Lent and I do not eat meat on Fridays.
We Episcopalians start off the season with a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper. OK, not as wild and crazy as Mardi Gras or Carnivale, but it's still fun, with all the pancakes, sausage, and applesauce you can eat.
On Ash Wednesday the mass is similar, if not identical, to the Catholic mass.
I won't be able to go this year, but in years when I can, I love to go to Trinity Church in lower Manhattan. It's the historic church at the foot of Wall Street. They have a noontime Ash Wednesday service with the imposition of ashes, and the choir sings David's Psalm in Latin, with a high soprano raising the upper notes to the soaring vaulted ceiling of the sanctuary. It gives one chills to hear it. The church is packed and there is incense--very formal, old-fashioned Ash Wednesday service.
We are Lutherans (ELCA) and we commemorate the beginning of the Lenten season with the imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday.
But before that we enjoy Fasnacht! A night of games, pranks, skits and costumes. Good food and drink. The Feast before the fast. Sort of a Nordic-Germanic Mardi Gras.
I love the liturgical year. It coincides so closely with the natural year. I could not imagine attending a church that did not recognize these important times and traditions.
Cant remember anything fun about Ash Weds, but I was raised Catholic, American variety.
I do remember the words of the ritual: Remember, Man, you are dust and to dust you will return.
Funny how the ritual reflects God's words to Adam at the Garden's gate, yet the Catholics are essentially the perpetrators of the hell fire and brimstone aka unending punishment travesty.
The non denominational mission church were I go do not recognize the lenten fast, but they do make it known when palm Sunday is there and hold up Easter ...... But sometime Jesus spirit leads the church to a fast . but only in the spirit or there will not be one ...... I have seen were churches which have doctrines of lenten fast will also have pork ham dinners right during the lenten fast which will show that faith has been lost to the Lord some places during his traditional fast ....I remember reading a prophecy were the Lord said something like `` And they run off down to the butcher to buy meat during the lent like dogs, so The Lord will remove His hand on their land ``.... This was in the days in Ireland after this prophecy when there was a potato famine were many people starved or some people had to move off the land and go to America....... See the Lord sees were His faith is and will bless His people .....
We Episcopalians start off the season with a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper. OK, not as wild and crazy as Mardi Gras or Carnivale, but it's still fun, with all the pancakes, sausage, and applesauce you can eat.
On Ash Wednesday the mass is similar, if not identical, to the Catholic mass.
I won't be able to go this year, but in years when I can, I love to go to Trinity Church in lower Manhattan. It's the historic church at the foot of Wall Street. They have a noontime Ash Wednesday service with the imposition of ashes, and the choir sings David's Psalm in Latin, with a high soprano raising the upper notes to the soaring vaulted ceiling of the sanctuary. It gives one chills to hear it. The church is packed and there is incense--very formal, old-fashioned Ash Wednesday service.
Beautiful!
No wonder former Catholic Priests go Episcopalian.
I think rites enhance the human condition and our relationship with God.
No wonder former Catholic Priests go Episcopalian.
I think rites enhance the human condition and our relationship with God.
They definitely work for me. I love the rituals.
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