Today is Music Thursday, the 8th Day of Carnival, a day for celebrating life in song! Music has a strong role in Carnival traditions, particularly in the Americas. But, that music, and Carnival celebrations in general, often have sexually aggressive content that might make some uncomfortable, or be inappropriate for family Carnival parties with children [...]
Posts Tagged ‘carnival’
Music Thursday – Celebrate in Song!
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, Virtues, tagged carnival, christian, diversity, fiji, music, sexuality, soca, tobymac, unitarian on 11 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Candlemas and Carnival
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged candlemas, carnival, christian, disputation with the elders, jesus, presentation in the temple, unitarian on 2 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As happens roughly once every four years or so in Reform Unitarianism, Candlemas is falling on Carnival Thursday. In most Christian churches, Candlemas celebrates only the presentation of Jesus at the Temple as a baby by Mary and Joseph. However, AUR also celebrates another Temple-related event on this day: the Disputation, when a 12-year-old Jesus debated the [...]
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 [...]
Happy Carnival!
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged carnival, fat tuesday, mardi gras, shrove tuesday on 12 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Carnival Thursday in Reform Unitarianism, the first of the “dozenal” called the 12 Days of Carnival, which culminates two weeks from now on Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. As the day to introduce the themes of revelry in this movable feast time, Carnival Thursday is one of the many Little Thursdays that have [...]
