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With Passover upon us tomorrow and the Catholic Holy Week beginning, I thought it appropriate to wish everyone in App'lville the best of whichever holiday you celebrate. It is a good time to remember that regardless of religion, there are miracles everywhere. I had my own miracle recently- my cousin Peter, son of "Aunt Jennie of the Timeline" - underwent a heart transplant after suffering from cardiomyopathy for ten years. He is home now and recovering nicely. My sister and I have been running down to Princeton, NJ from Connecticut every weekend since November, and compared to how he looked just last month, it is hard to believe he was ever sick. When you consider what could have happened, he was incredibly lucky indeed - as were we.

Peace to all - enjoy your holiday - whatever it is.
 
Anthony, thank you for the great news. I am very happy for your family. And thank you for the wishes and Blessings to you!! Bob. Holy Week, yup, my music marathon of Masses.
 
Thank you, Anthony. Best wishes to you and all of Applianceville as we get this special season in gear. Kinahora (to keep the evil eye away)I am very happy for the good news about your cousin.
Tom
 
My best wishes to all in this holiday week. A busy one for me with serving at many of the Masses this week. Holy Week also applies to non Roman Catholic Christians such as Episcopal/Anglican, Orthodox, some Protestant denominations.
Yes, Passover Seder was also The Last Supper.
A blessed holiday to everyone.

Ross
 
So what's eveybody cooking for the holidays?

Italians make theirs bigger. We like smaller ones.
(The magic ingredient REALLY IS mint......)

How fabulous are those kitchen appliances. (Except the red pot!)
Based on the outlets/power-points (and their Greek accent well dialect actually, and the way they handle English, methinks they are in Cyprus.)

 
Stuffes Vine (grape) leaves.

When he says something that is translated as "I love you", believe me its more like a word you'd call a dog in a kennel club.
When he says something that is translated as "too much pepper" he actually says "Damn, I'm gonna burn my @$$!" ROFL

 
We just completed a very moving Easter cantata at my Church this past weekend that we ran Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings to about 300+ people each night. I was responsible for lighting, and was up at the church every night this week working with the set builders as to where/how things would take place. It was a lot of work, and I got my exercise running up and down the attic stairs to adjust the lights. The results were well worth it though, the show was amazing! I enjoy using my creativity for the Lord. Any of you all have any drama, concerts or other performing arts going on for the season?
 
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Due to my use of Viva detergent spiked with additional phosphates, the procession at my parish will glisten through holy week.

Ross
 
Hi Pete. No dingy yellowed or grayed whites at my parish.
And phosphates also help due to having very hard water here in Tucson.

Hi Steve. You tell 'em.....

PHOSPHATES RULE!!!!!!!!!!

Ross
 
Holy Week?

Happy Holidays to all.
In my church we call this week "hell week", because it is so busy. When I worked in the Catholic church, I was ready to blow my brains out at this time. Stainer's "Crucifixion" to be done soon. Schlocky, but powerful.
Bobby in Boston
 
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in tomorrow's Maundy Thursday service. I am reading Matthew 26:20-25 (too many "2s" :) :)

We have a potluck, and then the service by candlelight., and when the service is over, we depart in silence. It is a very moving experience, and one of the things I love best about my congregation.

Anyway...a blessed Pesach, and happy Easter.

Joe, your illustration was adorable, as always.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Hi Lawrence. We do Mass as usual at 7PM, with foot washing (I did not volunteer to be an apostle), besides, I am serving swinging incense, then the altar is stripped, then the lights extinguished as we depart in silence. I find Maundy Thursday to always be the most moving service of Holy Week.
I am serving at the Vigil on Easter Eve (double duty as chalice bearer and incense) and at 6AM Sunrise Mass on Sunday.
Will go back to bed by 8AM.

Ross
 
Nothing beats full regalia/drag.

For me the funeral procession on the night of Good Friday with incense, candles and chanting/singing as the congregation goes around the church (or the church's block, as it were) three times carrying the symbolic tomb (Epitaphios or bier) is a sight to behold.

In Flushing Queens the Greek Orhodox shrine church of St. Nicholas fronts along Northern Boulevard. It is quite a large, main street. Therefore the police escort that shuts it down STILL amazes me after all these deacades.
 
DO NOT OPEN LINK IF SENSITIVE.

This is what is sung in a bitter-sweet oriental/byantine/chanted tonality on the night of the funeral procession (Good/Great Friday).

It is quite moving.

Good/Great translates the way Alexander "the Great" does, big, important, significant. It is not related to the meaning of desirable, well-behaved, etc. in meaning.

http://www.newbyz.org/lamentationspew.pdf
 
That meatball video was too funny! Those people do not go with those appliances however. I didn't think Greeks(like us Armenians) ate a lot of pork; learn something new every day!

XPIZTOZ BOZKPEZ!!!!
 
I went to Holy Thursday service with my sister tonight. It was nowhere near as dramatic as it was when I was a kid. The altar boys - and now girls - have it way too easy: You have not lived until you've walked backwards through a church, across a shiny, slippery floor, in a floor length robe, swinging a heavy incense carrier loaded with hot coals and pungent incense, LOL. My parents said that I would reek of incense for days afterwards.

But it was a nice, homey thing to do. Haven't been to a Holy Thursday in twenty years. Missed the old latin hymns though. The new stuff is too choir-centric, and the congregation didn't seem to know any of the songs. Too bad, as I like to sing.

Happy Easter and/or Passover (and whatever else might be out there) everyone! :-)
 
In my parish, too many people complained of use of incense due to asthma so the Rector made a home made thurible (incense burner) where there is a platform on the bottom and a container filled with denatured alcohol with a wick. Above it is a vessel filled with water and pure frankencense. The Rector calls it "aroma therapy" and no output of smoke, just a small output of steam aroma therapy. No complaints from the congregation. I will be swinging it tomorrow at the
Easter Vigil.

Ross
 
Too bad, as I like to sing.

AMEN Dan! I love it too!
My church is blessed with very good acoustics, its a smallish room seating about 250, but its VERY live! 60 people singing sound like 600!
The downside is our organ, a Rodgers electronic thing from about 1967 that is little more than sound thru the speakers. As dreadful as it is, the people sing to it, often totally burying it, which is not bad I suppose!
We are beginning the process of replacing the organ, I am hoping it will be with pipes.
As a sometimes Church organist I feel there are few things finer than a good pipe organ, and a room full of people to sing to it!
I'll be on the organ bench some on Sunday morning, playing hymns during comminion so our regular organist can go recieve the sacrement. I'm looking forward to it!
 
I feel like I am "on tour"

My sister and I have another mass to perform tonite, she says it feels like we are recording artists on tour. Participating in this music ministry makes us better musicians and we're not bored since we have something to do during that time. All these services are moving so I have been very emotional during all this time. Our church is an older one with a Pipe organ, when a low note is played you can feel it.

Westyslantfront keep doing the laundry for your church, you really want the white vestments white. Another church I used to go to have the altar boy vestments kinda dingy. I told one of the older women I was with that they needed the Atlantis washer that had a "Turbo Rinse System to keep white clothes white". Then she started on how her boys were altar boys and she used a wringer to wash those robes to "get the cassock really white". Are wringer washers more aggressive?
 

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