| Foliagèd Chancel |
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A couple of Sundays ago, the Decorating Powers That Be had a couple of large (~2.5 feet high) terra cotta vases filled with cut branches with the brilliant fall foliage still attached to them. (I'm not a botanist, so I can't really tell you what kind of trees they came from, but the two candidates would have been maple or oak.) To the front left of the ambo (from the point of view of the congregation), there was a ficus tree.
I thought it was interesting. (I guess the fall foliage must have been at a peak in this area at that point. No worries, New England people - our Fall colours certainly cannot come close to the brilliant colours you guys see up there. One of the things I miss about living in New England ...) Have you ever seen such a decorating scheme in your parishes, especially those of you up in the New England area?
Regards,
Lyn F.
http://musical-chemist.blogspot.com/
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| Re: Foliagèd Chancel |
Wed, 15 November 2006 05:47  |
 Augsburg Boy
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title=Lyn F. wrote on Wed, 15 November 2006 12:02] One of the things I miss about living in New England ...) Have you ever seen such a decorating scheme in your parishes, especially those of you up in the New England area?
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Yes, and this week, with Thanksgiving coming up, there are many an altar decorated with corn husks, and all that sort of stuff! Mostly I have seen it in Congregational Churches, especially those wonderful Colonial Style, white clapboard etc...with doors to the pews etc...I do believe that Thanksgiving is a Holy Day of Obligation for Congregationalists (UCC) up here! 
My first parish in Shrewsbury (you remember Shrewsbury doncha? ) there was/is a wonderful old Congo church, sitting on the Town Common, and we always had a rather nice "Town Ecumenical" service every year there on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. A combined choir from all the town churches, Beautiful BIG Casavant (three manuals) that ALMOST overcame the padded carpetting, huge curtains on the windows, and cushie tushie pews, and corn husks (Indian corn) and dried out leaves everywhere!
Randy
"The Lord so loved the world that He did not send a committee."
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| Re: Foliagèd Chancel |
Wed, 15 November 2006 06:34 |
PhiMuAlpha2681
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At the ELCA church where I grew up (here in central PA) we would always have "Harvest Home" Sunday, with similar decorations of corn and the tall husks, brought in from the family farms (i.e., the families that founded the congregation in 1733, my ancestors). Everyone brought canned goods/non-perishables which were brought up, and then all taken to the county food bank after church was over.
Here at the Cathedral, we take up a non-perishable collection with the regular Offertory at the daily Mass on Thanksgiving Day.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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