All Saints: Birth and Death, water and ashes, a photo by St Nicholas Episcopal on Flickr.
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At St Nicholas, we have an immersion font with a flowing fountain.
This year the All Saints Names banner is displayed near the font, with bier candles (normally used at funerals) arranged around it. On the wall is a small columbarium, a repository for the ashes of parishioners no longer with us.
The symbolism reminds us of life and death, water and ashes, beginnings and endings.
, a photo by St Nicholas Episcopal on Flickr.
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The Names Banner and Book of Remembrance are displayed for next Sunday’s celebration of the Feast of All Saints, when we remember our loved ones who have passed on.
This past Saturday, the discussion group reviewed the 2008 book The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell
. The reaction was strongly positive; it is a witty and entertaining, but at the same time highly educational, look at the Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then the splinter colony at Providence.
A video of the author discussing the audio version of the book is online at:
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…and her interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show is at:
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The Daily Show: Author Sarah Vowell
It’s worth a look.
Our next fiction work will be The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
. I probably don’t have to say much about this best-seller except that those who have read it are eager to do so again, and those who (like me) have only seen the movie are also looking forward to it. Because of busy schedules around Thanksgiving, we will meet to discuss The Help on Saturday, December 17, at Panera’s at 9:30 AM.
– Steve G