Posted on 01/26/2008 9:18:27 AM PST by sionnsar
Fresh hell, people. Gitcher fresh hell here.
I am not making this up. This is what 815 is offering as part of its Lenten resources this year. Here is the downloadable Word file.
Some suggested options for activities are: (can be modified as appropriate)
- Station 1: Bag lunches to be distributed to those in need the next day
Bring goods and organize for a local food pantry.
- Station 2: Create a card using a poster-size piece of paper. Have each pilgrim write encouraging words, scripture, drawings, etc., making sure to write at the level of a primary school student. Send the card to an Episcopal/Anglican school in the developing world.
- Station 3: Have a piece of paper for each pilgrim to write the names of women who have inspired them and why. Include family members, friends, world leaders, historical figures, artists, religious figures and others. Tape pages together top-to-bottom and roll up as a scroll to be read during the corporate worship time.
- Station 4: Provide black and white drawings or outlines of children’s faces. Have pilgrims color the faces. While the group is coloring, ring a bell every fifteen seconds to recognize that another child died from a preventable water-borne illness.
- Station 5: Have a poster-size piece of paper for each pilgrim and a thick black permanent marker. Ask each pilgrim to write the first-name only of every woman they know who had a baby in the past year. When the list is complete, draw a black cross next to the name of every 16th woman. Explain that this represents the plight of women in sub-Saharan Africa, where one in 16 pregnant women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth each day.
- Station 6: Have a bed sheet and a couple of ink pads or finger paints. Have one pilgrim make a handprint every thirty seconds. Explain that the number of handprints on the sheet symbolize how many children have died from malaria during the time you were at the station.
- Station 7: Have pilgrims calculate their carbon footprint and come up with three strategies to reduce it.
- Station 8: Have pilgrims sign and address postcards to members of Congress urging support for the Millennium Development Goals.
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Stations of the Millennium Development Goals
At the beginning of each station the group prays together:
God you created us and call us to be in this world,
part of your creative force.
In Christ you teach us the way of salvation.
Help us to live radically in a broken world.
Send your Spirit upon us that we might be
instruments of your peace.
Vocalizing the Millennium Development Goals: The leader will read the goal out loud at each station
Reflection: Participants will reflect on each goal (see below)
At the end of each station the group prays together:
Holy God
Holy and Mighty
Holy Immortal One
Transform us
That we might transform the world
When you have passed through all eight stations please return to area around the font.
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - in my personal opinion, TEC has become a cult with groovy vestments and nice real estate...
I’m afraid you’re right, though there are pockets still...
I weep for the faithful still trapped in this abomination.
It is a trap of their own choosing. No one is making them stay.
From an e-mail this morning:
The new bishop over my parents' diocese is being consecrated right now in Charleston, SC (if any of you is up this early on a Saturday). You can watch it live on AnglicanTV: http://www.dioceseofsc.org/mt/archives/000316.html/It's one of the few truly Biblical Episcopalian diocese in the nation, and they are considering splitting from the Episcopalian church and joining the Anglicans, due to the apostasy in the general Episcopal body.
What hypocrisy. The same liberals who campaigned to outlaw DDT (which was used to fight the spread of malaria) are now playing games that mark the number of children who die due to malaria.
Send the card to an Episcopal/Anglican school in the developing world.
And the recipients should mark those cards "Return to Sender" before dropping them back in the mailbox.
where one in 16 pregnant women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth each day.
As stated, you'd run out of women pretty darn quick.
Holy God
Holy and Mighty
Holy Immortal One
Transform usThat we might transform the world
At least they're not doing a "Holy God, Father and Mother" thing.
Well, except that pregnant women are an easily renewable resource.
Not if you run completely out in a couple weeks.
Non-Christian cult alert.
Kind of hurt me to do that, because there is a faithful remnant still there.
You know where that comes from, don't you? The first part, "Holy God ... Holy Immortal One" is from the Byzantine Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. It's called the "Trisagion" or "thrice holy". It's also found in the old Latin Rite for Good Friday, the only day of the year it's used in the West. Except for the Kyrie, it's also the only thing (AFAIK) in the Latin Mass that is sung in Greek.
Very telling how they've changed it though, because the real version ends with "Have mercy on us", not "transform us [what?] that we might transform the world [ah, so we don't need any divine mercy anymore, we just need to be good liberals]".
Agios o Theos, Agios ischyros, Agios athanatos, eleison imas!
And sadly, it's not surprising what they did to the Trisagion: They don't recognize sin, so why ask for mercy?
You know where that comes from, don't you? The first part, "Holy God ... Holy Immortal One" is from the Byzantine Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
No I didn't know where that came from. Thank you for the information.
Agios o Theos, Agios ischyros, Agios athanatos, eleison imas!
I can almost read that, deteriorated as my Koine skills are now. Yes, telling how it's been modified.
“Transform us That we might transform the world”
The apostasy isn’t so obvious for those who aren’t familiar with the original prayer: “Have mercy on us, and on the whole world.” Where the faithful once prayed to God to transform the world through his mercy (implying the need for redemption, the atoning sacrifice of Christ and that what is needed is a conversion of the human heart), they now pray to do it themselves.
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