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Ralph on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Any comment that I might make about Katherine Ragsdale might well be taken as mocking the mentally ill.
Moot on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Hi Carl, I knew you weren’t reacting to my post, just something you had typed and had a second thought or three prior to hitting…
driver8 on [Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Anglicanism Upside Down Down Under? Understanding Lay Administration: Only Scripture binds the conscience. Including obeying the lawful authority? The Anglican view (as against the anabaptists) is firstly that the lawful authority may order…
Matt Kennedy on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Oh and I am certainly not mocking the dead but the living.
Matt Kennedy on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Wait, hold on…you mean to tell me he’s not an Episcopal clergyman? Wow! I mean I could have sworn since his views so closely resemble…
Don+ on [Entirely Off Topic] What's Wrong With This Shiny New Video on Public Education?: [7] above should read “better keep up with…”
Don+ on [Entirely Off Topic] What's Wrong With This Shiny New Video on Public Education?: No doubt these fast-paced students will be able to better up with the rapidly changing truth and radical new concepts of salvation.
carl on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: [5] Moot I didn’t mean to imply anything about your post.  I was simply reacting to what I initially thought to write.  I agree with…
carl on [Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Anglicanism Upside Down Down Under? Understanding Lay Administration: [358] MichaelA Why do you want the Anglican church to abandon the doctrinal understanding of Thomas Cranmer, and of continental reformers with whom Cranmer corresponded,…
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GrandpaDino on [Entirely Off Topic] What's Wrong With This Shiny New Video on Public Education?: “Every textbook a child will carry thoughout their education” Obviously not a textbook on proper grammar.
NoVA Scout on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Document that I didn’t know something?  Not easy.  But my comment was based on Matt’s post.  This hostage taker guy was a candidate to be…
paradoxymoron on Newsflash: The Episcopal Church sues local congregation: You must be new to this site.  Yes, that’s what that means.
Ralph on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: #2, carl, I agree. I further think it seems wrong to mock the mentally ill. I have no idea “where” he is right now.
Moot on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: I wrote a post, thought better, and promptly erased it.  He’s dead, and it seems wrong to mock the dead. It’s possible to illustrate how…
BravoZulu on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: NoVA Scout #3—- could you please document that.
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A Reading for the Second Day of Christmas

Saturday, December 26, 2009 • 2:04 pm

[Note: there are some differing traditions for the calculation of which day of Christmas we are on. I am calculating it from evening to evening. I also note that I'm keeping the comments from last year -- so some of the comments you read will be out of date.]

[Horatio]
And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake the god of day, and, at his warning,
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine; and of the truth herein
This present object made probation.

[Marcellus]
It faded on the crowing of the cock.
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long,
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallowed and so gracious is that time.

[Horatio]
So have I heard and do in part believe it.
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Comments:

My husband has Hamlet memorized, so I’m going to pass this on to him for his enjoyment on this 2nd day of Christmas.
I liked this excerpt from here http://www.dynamispublications.org/122707.html

Our Creator: Genesis 1:1-13, especially vss. 1-3: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.  And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”  The joyous Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ is come!  In the Divine Liturgy as we celebrate His birth, we will affirm our belief in “the Holy, Consubstantial, Life-giving, and Undivided Trinity.”  As we join with the Church and take our part in the prayers and hymns and actions of the Liturgy, commit yourself also to God.  Child of God, make the words of the Nicene Creed your own!  Declare your allegiance to your “Father Almighty, Maker…of all things visible and invisible,” for you are His visible and invisible creation.  Acknowledge your “Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God…by Whom all things were made,” for He not only created you, but took your nature as His own.  As you take the Name of “the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life” on your lips, meet Him in your heart for He lives in all your senses.  Without Him, you would know neither Jesus Christ nor your Father in Heaven.

[1] Posted by Margaret on 12-27-2007 at 10:24 AM • top

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