British Word of the Day: litter (pronounced LI'-tuh) - refuse, waste, garbage. (An American's trash) eg: "Put that in the litter bin, under the sink."
Today was another one.
I'm quite exhausted, but I've decided that there will be more days like this, more worthy of my exhaustion--probably days that I actually read more than 2 pages at once.
I attended two church services today. Both in the morning, incidentally, at St. Andrew's church, a parish church. I attended the 8 AM and the 9:30. The first had no music and we read several times out of the book of common prayer, which was new to me (the book, at least.)
During the services I was struck in two ways:
1) How heathenistic does our communion sound to those who have never heard of drinking our Saviour's blood and feeding on his flesh? (This was simply because the Book of Common Prayer worded it differently than I'd ever heard before.)
2) How religiously-based Oxford really is, compared with the rest of the spiritually dark Europe.
St. Andrew's has a wonderful programme for everyone that is young of age (me three years ago, say) and has several different names for them, very active, like, Crawlers, Creepers, Jumpers, Soul Survivors, etc. It sounds almost like a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong, but it seems to have gone in the other direction: wonderfully right! There were children galore in the service, along with plenty of participation from the youth. St. Andrew's is completely thriving, in a very healthy way, it seems like.
Tomorrow is orientation--serious business. With a planned schedule from 9-4. I really am a professional student these days. On Thursday we'll stop with the orientation business and finally get to have free time again--to meet with our tutors and decide when to meet with them each week (primary tutors) and when to meet with them fortnightly (every two weeks, secondary tutors).
I look forward to it all.
Cheers!
P.S. If you wonder about the blog titles, just ask; I'll be happy to tell. I'm not certain if it's exciting blog material or not.
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St. Andrew's sounds like a right-place to be; family and community are important wherever you may be, and you describe the parish as having a solid sense of both. So---how are the acoustics for singing?
ReplyDeleteTake care--JC
Glad you enjoyed the church services. Did they greet you and ask you for lunch? Sounds like you're getting busier and I guess that's good. Tourist and Student probably don't fit together at this point. Or do they? By the way the mac and cheese is still in the box here at home. Dad will be gone hunting for a few days so I may have to crack it open. I'll think of you as I eat it with lots of salt and pepper. Love Mom.
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