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Apr. 9th, 2004 07:00 am
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Apr. 9th, 2004
Good Friday
Apr. 9th, 2004 07:03 amNo, that isn't the only thing I'm going to talk about, but I thought that since today is Good Friday, it made a good subject.
Um, I went to the Maundy Thursday service last night, and I decided I prefer the way they do the service at my stepfather's church. The strange thing is, everything was pretty much the same at the church I've been going to all year. The biggest difference was that they didn't turn off the lights during the stripping of the altar, and everyone read the 22nd Psalm in unison, rather than one person reading it from the altar. Oh, and they actually washed feet, which was kind of neat.
I'm not really looking forward to tonight though. In fact, I wish I was already back in Florida, so I could attend my stepfather's church, and go the tenebrae service. I spend all year looking forward to the Good Friday tenebrae service, because that is the one time all year that we sing my favorite hymns, and this year, I'll have to miss it. My church is having a cantata, which I am planning to attend. I doubt it can be as dramatic as the tenebrae, though, and I will singing "In the Hour of Trial" and "Go to Dark Gethsemane." I think I spelled that last title wrong, but I can't figure out the write spelling. I am curious about what the cantata will be like, but I wish I had thought in advance to ask my mom to tape the tenebrae service for me. Then I could at least hear my favorite hymns.
Oh, and I am going to spend the whole weekend feeling like I'm not wanted, because my sister-in-law in visiting, and the last time she came for a weekend, I spent the whole weekend feeling like no one even noticed I was there. And, this weekend will be the first time I have spent Easter without one of my parents. I hate this. There are certain traditions that for as long as I can remember have been associated with Holy
Week and Easter, and I am missing all of them this year.
Oh, and I have decided that today I will do two entries, this one, and one later in which I will talk about sacrifices, and in each of these entries, I will use an icon in memory of one of my favorite characters who sacrificed themselves.
Um, I went to the Maundy Thursday service last night, and I decided I prefer the way they do the service at my stepfather's church. The strange thing is, everything was pretty much the same at the church I've been going to all year. The biggest difference was that they didn't turn off the lights during the stripping of the altar, and everyone read the 22nd Psalm in unison, rather than one person reading it from the altar. Oh, and they actually washed feet, which was kind of neat.
I'm not really looking forward to tonight though. In fact, I wish I was already back in Florida, so I could attend my stepfather's church, and go the tenebrae service. I spend all year looking forward to the Good Friday tenebrae service, because that is the one time all year that we sing my favorite hymns, and this year, I'll have to miss it. My church is having a cantata, which I am planning to attend. I doubt it can be as dramatic as the tenebrae, though, and I will singing "In the Hour of Trial" and "Go to Dark Gethsemane." I think I spelled that last title wrong, but I can't figure out the write spelling. I am curious about what the cantata will be like, but I wish I had thought in advance to ask my mom to tape the tenebrae service for me. Then I could at least hear my favorite hymns.
Oh, and I am going to spend the whole weekend feeling like I'm not wanted, because my sister-in-law in visiting, and the last time she came for a weekend, I spent the whole weekend feeling like no one even noticed I was there. And, this weekend will be the first time I have spent Easter without one of my parents. I hate this. There are certain traditions that for as long as I can remember have been associated with Holy
Week and Easter, and I am missing all of them this year.
Oh, and I have decided that today I will do two entries, this one, and one later in which I will talk about sacrifices, and in each of these entries, I will use an icon in memory of one of my favorite characters who sacrificed themselves.
Sacrifices
Apr. 9th, 2004 05:19 pmWell, I have no idea how this entry is going to go, but I have been wanting to do some thinking about sacrifices for some time now. In the course of my little mini essay, I will address the various sacrifices that different characters have made, and who those sacrifices were for. I will also briefly address the issue of sacrifice as part of someone's destiny. Anything after this into paragraph will be behind a cut, and there is no obligation to look at it. However, for any interested, series discussed will be: the Buffyverse (BtVS and AtS), Les Miserables, some historical and Biblical sources, various fantasy series, and the A&E Hornblower movies. (And this if slightly off topic, but the icon is a tribute of one of my favorite characters who died. And, I can't remember the name of the site where I got the icon. I'll get around to crediting my icons later this week, hopefully.)
( Sacrifices. Cut for potential spoilers and length )
( Sacrifices. Cut for potential spoilers and length )
