Maundy Thursday / Vernal Equinox
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hermionesviolinAnd Purim starts tonight? I had thought it started tomorrow night -- oh, 'cause it's "All Jewish holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the date shown;" I always forget that.
[My default assumption is that the Equinox/Solstice falls on the 21st of the month, but apparently it ranges from 20-23 depending.]
It was dark grey today, and when I left work it was spitting rain just a bit, but as I walked home from Davis the clouds were clearing.
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At CAUMC young adult group last week, Trelawney was talking about the upcoming Holy Week services, and Michelle Michelle asked what "maundy" means -- she grew up Catholic, so she always knew it just as "Holy Thursday." So of course I later looked it up on Dictionary.com.
Trelawney e-mailed the group the text of Matthew 21:12-26:16 (following up on Tiffany's sermon, in which she suggested we read what happens in between Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday).
23:5 says, "Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long," and I was fairly certain I knew the meaning of "phylacteries," but I looked it up anyway, and it told me which specific Scripture passages (Deut. 6:4-9, Deut. 11:13-21, Ex. 13:1-16) are used.
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Today's Lenten Labyrinth says:
"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
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"Sin is necessary, but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well."
-Julian of Norwich, Showings
Five good things about today:
1. [Dinosaur Comics] CMPRSD SNG CMCS was v. funny ("Hollaback Girl"!), but today? I got all flappy hands. "It's difficult to reconcile the events in this song with established Beach Boys canon." ["The Beach Boys have talked about living together at length, but have come to feel that this speculation only makes their present situation worse; nevertheless, they continue to want to talk about it."]
2.musesfool wrote a lovely post-series Josh/Donna (The West Wing) fic -- Institutional Memory.
3. Work didn't drag, nor were there any crises -- I think I took care of anything in a timely fashion (though I'm neurotic and have paranoia that I wasn't thorough enough about one thing and it'll be a hassle tomorrow).
4. The apartment was at like 62F when I got home from work.
5. I really like the foot-washing part of Maundy Thursday service.
Three things I did well today:
1. I did <25min in the weight room this morning.
2. I had a good conversation with a friend this afternoon. I felt very b-school when, early in the conversation, I responded to a potential plan change: "Is that the signal you want to send?" We basically established that yeah, she didn't really wanna change her plans, because she wouldn't have been telling me all these things I could totally throw back at her if she didn't want me to try to dissuade her.
3. I bought groceries. (I was going to do it during laundry on Saturday, but I was running low on things and didn't want to be worrying about it Friday night.)
Two things I am looking forward to (doing [better]) tomorrow:
["anything that you're looking forward to, that means you're facing tomorrow with joy, not trepidation," as Ari says]
1. Tiffany says the Good Friday service is going to include a Johnny Cash song.
2. I get to come home and relax a bit between work and church service.
[My default assumption is that the Equinox/Solstice falls on the 21st of the month, but apparently it ranges from 20-23 depending.]
It was dark grey today, and when I left work it was spitting rain just a bit, but as I walked home from Davis the clouds were clearing.
***
At CAUMC young adult group last week, Trelawney was talking about the upcoming Holy Week services, and Michelle Michelle asked what "maundy" means -- she grew up Catholic, so she always knew it just as "Holy Thursday." So of course I later looked it up on Dictionary.com.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME maunde < OF mande < L manda-tum command, mandate (from the opening phrase novum manda-tum (Vulgate) of Jesus' words to the disciples after He had washed their feet). See MANDATE]It's so easy to remember all the dark parts of Maundy Thursday, so it's interesting to think about the aspect that it's actually named for.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 200
Trelawney e-mailed the group the text of Matthew 21:12-26:16 (following up on Tiffany's sermon, in which she suggested we read what happens in between Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday).
23:5 says, "Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long," and I was fairly certain I knew the meaning of "phylacteries," but I looked it up anyway, and it told me which specific Scripture passages (Deut. 6:4-9, Deut. 11:13-21, Ex. 13:1-16) are used.
***
Today's Lenten Labyrinth says:
Love is a word that evokes images of great affection, but to those of the Near Eastern world of Jesus it had less a connotation of passionate affection than of attachment. To love God with all your heart, mind and body was to be totally attached to God--and to God's design for the perfection of the world. To love Jesus is to be likewise attached to him and his vision of the new Reign of God, a global community of unity, peace and justice. To love one another means being attached--with great depth and devotion--to your brothers and sisters of the family of Christ. It implies that your attachment to their needs must be as great as your attachment to your own needs.
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mylittleredgirl [more info]"Sin is necessary, but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well."
-Julian of Norwich, Showings
Five good things about today:
1. [Dinosaur Comics] CMPRSD SNG CMCS was v. funny ("Hollaback Girl"!), but today? I got all flappy hands. "It's difficult to reconcile the events in this song with established Beach Boys canon." ["The Beach Boys have talked about living together at length, but have come to feel that this speculation only makes their present situation worse; nevertheless, they continue to want to talk about it."]
2.
musesfool wrote a lovely post-series Josh/Donna (The West Wing) fic -- Institutional Memory.3. Work didn't drag, nor were there any crises -- I think I took care of anything in a timely fashion (though I'm neurotic and have paranoia that I wasn't thorough enough about one thing and it'll be a hassle tomorrow).
4. The apartment was at like 62F when I got home from work.
5. I really like the foot-washing part of Maundy Thursday service.
Three things I did well today:
1. I did <25min in the weight room this morning.
2. I had a good conversation with a friend this afternoon. I felt very b-school when, early in the conversation, I responded to a potential plan change: "Is that the signal you want to send?" We basically established that yeah, she didn't really wanna change her plans, because she wouldn't have been telling me all these things I could totally throw back at her if she didn't want me to try to dissuade her.
3. I bought groceries. (I was going to do it during laundry on Saturday, but I was running low on things and didn't want to be worrying about it Friday night.)
Two things I am looking forward to (doing [better]) tomorrow:
["anything that you're looking forward to, that means you're facing tomorrow with joy, not trepidation," as Ari says]
1. Tiffany says the Good Friday service is going to include a Johnny Cash song.
2. I get to come home and relax a bit between work and church service.
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Date: 2008-03-21 02:10 am (UTC)Jan & Dean: not the Beach Boys. Happy holidays.
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Date: 2008-03-21 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-21 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-22 09:48 pm (UTC)Now that's comedy.
RAS
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Date: 2008-03-22 10:00 pm (UTC)I couldn't help thinking of this by Lenny Bruce, quoted by Stuart Buck at Overcoming Bias:
I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate and their comment would be, “He’s really slaughtering Nixon.” Then we would all go to another apartment, and the Nixon fans would say, “How do you like the shellacking he gave Kennedy?” And then I realized that each group loved their candidate so that a guy would have to be this blatant -- he would have to look into the camera and say: “I am a thief, a crook, do you hear me, I am the worst choice you could ever make for the Presidency!” And even then his following would say, “Now there’s an honest man for you. It takes a big guy to admit that. There’s the kind of guy we need for President.”
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/03/biases-in-proce.html
RAS