Rejoice, rejoice! The solstice is past.
Here comes the sun.
10 responses to “Sermon for 18 October 2009 – The Whirlwind”
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This good thanks.
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Even among habitually good sermons this one shone.
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Great sermon – sorry I missed it, but surprised you were not celebrating the feast of St Luke.
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The feast of St Luke is today, Monday.
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I am really getting puzzled at to the observence of Saints Days. Following a small straw poll, St Mary’s was the only Anglican Church (checking various friends and websites in Scotland and Englandshire) that transfered St Luke from the recognised date of 18 October to the following day (19 October). the SEC church I attended on Sunday morning was observing St Luke.
The appearance of various Saints Day during the sundays – after Trinity / after Pentecost / in Ordinary Time (select your prefered term) – has in the past seemed to given us a means every few years to consider these Saints in detail. However the wholesale translation away from the Sunday to my mind means we are losing the richness and inspiration that these days has and can provide.
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Wikipedia entry on Luke the Evangelist.
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We celebrated St Luke with a Eucharist in St Mary’s on the day on which the Scottish Episcopal Church commemorates him. This was 19 October this year. Normally it is 18 October.
There is no confusion in the Calendar and Lectionary of the SEC. Churches with any particular devotion to the Blessed Doctor can celebrate on the Sunday according to local custom. There is no local custom here to warrant that and no whim of the Provost to do so.
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Then it is a loss to the SEC.
None of the churches I checked were dedicated or had a particluar devotion to St Luke (including the SEC one I attended).
What was the reason behind moving this and all other saints days away from the relevant sunday in ordinary time when they fell on a sunday?
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Sunday is more important.
The rules have not changed since we went through this all before, Stewart. If you kept every saints day on the day, you would barely get Sundays at all.
Neither the SEC nor St Mary’s can be said to be losing out as we kept both the normal Sunday and St Luke’s day.
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Great sermon, thanks.
It is good to know that our cathedrals are keeping the great Feasts on the proper days.
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