Comments on: Seasons and Liturgy http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/ Unity in charity, diversity in truth Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:29:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Clara http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-225341 Clara Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:10:52 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-225341 Yes, children certainly tend to have a strong appreciation for the different seasons. Holidays and weather and seasonal traditions all seem extremely important in childhood, and adults are sometimes lucky enough to get to come along for the ride! I suspect children also find it more natural to make the connection between the liturgical and calendar years. So many things about the faith seem completely natural to children; it's only in adulthood that we start stumbling our way into difficulties about them. Yes, children certainly tend to have a strong appreciation for the different seasons. Holidays and weather and seasonal traditions all seem extremely important in childhood, and adults are sometimes lucky enough to get to come along for the ride! I suspect children also find it more natural to make the connection between the liturgical and calendar years. So many things about the faith seem completely natural to children; it’s only in adulthood that we start stumbling our way into difficulties about them.

]]> By: Theologian Mom http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-224998 Theologian Mom Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:26:53 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-224998 Good observations, Clara. I, too, love the seasons, although I agree winter can get a little long (especially when confined with a toddler and newborn!). I've found that having young children has renewed my awareness and appreciation for both the liturgical cycle and the four seasons, from apple-picking to the advent wreath and beyond. Good observations, Clara. I, too, love the seasons, although I agree winter can get a little long (especially when confined with a toddler and newborn!). I’ve found that having young children has renewed my awareness and appreciation for both the liturgical cycle and the four seasons, from apple-picking to the advent wreath and beyond.

]]> By: tubbs http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-222163 tubbs Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:18:21 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-222163 Good Bonifacius, YES! we could all envision certain American episcopal incumbents being appointed to that seventh planet from the Sun!!! Good Bonifacius, YES! we could all envision certain American episcopal incumbents being appointed to that seventh planet from the Sun!!!

]]> By: Bonifacius http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-221896 Bonifacius Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:41:53 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-221896 Tubbs, Note that I said I wanted to be the *titular* bishop of Antarctica. That means that I wouldn't actually have to go there or even visit. But thanks for the offer to design a coat-of-arms for me! And why isn't there at least a token vicariate apostolic for the Moon and planets? I'm surprised that Paul VI didn't invent something like that during the Apollo landings. Tubbs,

Note that I said I wanted to be the *titular* bishop of Antarctica. That means that I wouldn’t actually have to go there or even visit. But thanks for the offer to design a coat-of-arms for me!

And why isn’t there at least a token vicariate apostolic for the Moon and planets? I’m surprised that Paul VI didn’t invent something like that during the Apollo landings.

]]> By: tubbs http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-221892 tubbs Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:35:41 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-221892 I am a prol from Pennsylvania who has had to put his life on hold (back north) as I take care of my elderly parents down here in southern Florida. It's been two years, and I desperately miss the seasons. In Cheever's bio/diaries, he wrote of the comfort he got from seeing the seasonal changes in his (Episcopalian) church's altar cloths: I sooo understood that when I went to Mass on Corpus Christi down here. All the bright white and gold told me that the solstice was about that time. Now I was to brace myself for those gawd-aweful Sundays in "ordinary time", with a Father Ben Stein in a green burlap chasuble, droning on in platitudes. .....And me!.... chanting to myself "O come O come Emanuel" P.S. to Good Bonifacius- Should you ever be appointed to that most southern See; do you really believe you could fulfill your sarcedotal offices while being spiritual director to contemplative Penguins!?! well, I must excuse myself now. I'm off to design the episcopal coat-of-arms for good Bonny. I am a prol from Pennsylvania who has had to put his life on hold (back north) as I take care of my elderly parents down here in southern Florida. It’s been two years, and I desperately miss the seasons.
In Cheever’s bio/diaries, he wrote of the comfort he got from seeing the seasonal changes in his (Episcopalian) church’s altar cloths: I sooo understood that when I went to Mass on Corpus Christi down here. All the bright white and gold told me that the solstice was about that time. Now I was to brace myself for those gawd-aweful Sundays in “ordinary time”, with a Father Ben Stein in a green burlap chasuble, droning on in platitudes.

…..And me!…. chanting to myself “O come O come Emanuel”

P.S. to Good Bonifacius- Should you ever be appointed to that most southern See; do you really believe you could fulfill your sarcedotal offices while being spiritual director to contemplative Penguins!?!

well, I must excuse myself now. I’m off to design the episcopal coat-of-arms for good Bonny.

]]> By: Bonifacius http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-221757 Bonifacius Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:41:23 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-221757 Personally, were I ever to join the ranks of the hierarchy (hah!), I'd like to be the titular bishop of Antarctica. Why aren't there Trappists down there? Or at least a retreat house? :) Personally, were I ever to join the ranks of the hierarchy (hah!), I’d like to be the titular bishop of Antarctica. Why aren’t there Trappists down there? Or at least a retreat house? :)

]]> By: Bonifacius http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-221683 Bonifacius Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:11:10 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-221683 Well thankfully not that many people live in the Southern Hemisphere. Compared to the Northern Hemisphere, there simply isn't much land down there. Plus, not much of that land is far enough away from the Equator for the seasons to be profoundly different from one another. It's not like there are vast stretches of South Africa and Australia that have a temperate continental climate with snowy winters. Well thankfully not that many people live in the Southern Hemisphere. Compared to the Northern Hemisphere, there simply isn’t much land down there. Plus, not much of that land is far enough away from the Equator for the seasons to be profoundly different from one another. It’s not like there are vast stretches of South Africa and Australia that have a temperate continental climate with snowy winters.

]]> By: Clara http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-221597 Clara Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:51:42 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-221597 Yes, I'd noticed before that the two calendars do seem to line up somewhat, which I'm sure is no accident. Though it is fairly impossible to time things right everywhere in the planet at once... the poor Southern Hemisphere! I always enjoy it when I live in a place (what place that would be varies by year, of course) where Easter comes right around the time that spring gets into full gear. Yes, I’d noticed before that the two calendars do seem to line up somewhat, which I’m sure is no accident. Though it is fairly impossible to time things right everywhere in the planet at once… the poor Southern Hemisphere!

I always enjoy it when I live in a place (what place that would be varies by year, of course) where Easter comes right around the time that spring gets into full gear.

]]> By: Bonifacius http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/comment-page-1/#comment-221495 Bonifacius Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:43:43 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2009/07/seasons-and-liturgy/#comment-221495 Any surprise that the liturgical color for the summer is green? And that Melville's "damp, drizzly November in my soul" brings a day of black on All Souls' Day? And that for most of the winter and pre-blossom spring it's violet (more true with Septuagesima)? And that white is worn when the days start to get longer (Christmas) and when the days start to be longer than the night (Easter)? Any surprise that the liturgical color for the summer is green? And that Melville’s “damp, drizzly November in my soul” brings a day of black on All Souls’ Day? And that for most of the winter and pre-blossom spring it’s violet (more true with Septuagesima)? And that white is worn when the days start to get longer (Christmas) and when the days start to be longer than the night (Easter)?

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