The Twelve Days of Commission conclude today in the Ascension of Jesus. This feast day is one of the Four Great Thursdays of AUR, the other three being Garden Thursday, Declaration Thursday, and Harvest Thursday. Ascension commemorates the return of Jesus to Heaven between two angels. This imagery places a final seal on the importance [...]
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A Day of Faith and Confidence
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged ascension, christianity, easter, faith, unitarian on 29 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today is Loyal Thursday, the 4th Thursday after Easter and the Ultimate Thursday of the 12 Days of Trust, the second dozenal of the Ascension Season. The 12 Days of Trust are a celebration of the clear-minded virtue of Faith (πίστις in Greek, fidelis in Latin), and Loyal Thursday is a day to feast in [...]
A Day of Hope and Blessings
Posted in teachings, Thursday worship, Virtues, tagged ascension, christian, hope, unitarian, virtue on 15 April 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Joyful Thursday, the second Thursday after Easter, is the Ultimate of the 12 Days of Blessings, the first of the three dozenals of the Ascension Season. The 12 Days of Blessings are a celebration of the open-minded virtue of Hope (ἐλπίς in Biblical Greek), and Joyful Thursday is a day to feast in optimistic happiness. Hope is [...]
The Ascension Season – 40 Days of Faith, Hope, Love
Posted in holidays, Virtues, tagged agape, ascension, christian, corinthians, jesus christ, st. paul, unitarian on 8 April 2010 | Leave a Comment »
[An earlier version of this homily was published here in 2008] The post-Easter season leading up to Ascension Thursday is a time to celebrate the complementary virtues that are reconciled in the wholeness of the Divine Word. There are many ways to speak of these complementary virtues: as knowledge and life represented by the Trees of Paradise, [...]
Liturgical Calendar Graphic Added
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged advent, ascension, carnival, christian, christmas, declaration of independence, easter, holidays, independence day, liturgical calendar, pentecost, thanksgiving, unitarian on 22 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new graphic depicting the American Unitarian Reform liturgical calendar has been added to AUR’s LC page. The chart shows the 10-Day Gap, and the rough dates for the Four Great Thursdays: Harvest (or Thanksgiving) Thursday, Garden (or Gethsemane) Thursday, Ascension Thursday, and Declaration Thursday. Please note, of course, that the seasons from Carnival through Pentecost can vary broadly from [...]
Ascension Thursday
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged ark of the covenant, ascension, book of numbers, christ, christianity, isaiah, jesus, messiah, moses maimonides, musa bin maimon, word of god on 21 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Twelve Days of Commission conclude today in the Ascension of Jesus. This feast day is one of the Four Great Thursdays of AUR, the other three being Garden Thursday, Declaration Thursday, and Thanksgiving Thursday. Ascension commemorates the return of Jesus to Heaven between two angels. This imagery confirms the centrality of reconciled, complementary virtues [...]
Agape Thursday
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, Virtues, tagged ascension, christian commission, love on 10 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the First of the 12 Days of Commission, which is the third dozenal of the Easter Season. The 5th Day of Commission, which is the 6th Thursday after Easter, is Agape Thursday. The 12 Days of Commission are a celebration of the Christian virtue of Love (ἀγάπη or “agape” in Greek), and Agape [...]
Thursday Observance
Posted in Thursday worship, tagged america, ascension, christianity, declaration of independence, easter, gethsemane, jesus, sabbath, seventh day adventist, thanksgiving, thursday, unitarian on 5 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
AUR views itself as a particularly American and Unitarian Christian expression of the universal search for Truth. Just as the earliest Christian communities struggled with the question of Saturday or Sunday worship (the outcome of which is disputed even today by Seventh Day Adventists) and Muslims took Friday as their Day of Gathering, the Reform [...]
