I haven't seen this in any of the daily Lambeth summaries, unless Grandmère Mimi mentioned it, so I thought I'd pass it on--The Bishop's Blog from the Diocese of Wenchoster (typically, he writes it backwards):
DAY THREE
Hello! End bliss you awl for reading may little blawg. I em so encouraged bay those who send me wards of support – end who link to may perambulat-i-ons on their own blog. Blissings etarnal on Grandmere Mimi for being one of these special people! Being et Lembath is both glorious end humbling. It is awlso quate emot-i-onal. Even after three days (the tame Our Lawd took to be risurrected) I em a little homesick for may beloved darsis. I miss the familiarity of it awl, the cut end thrust of everyday lafe at the bishop’s office; the disciplining of wayward clargy, end the evening croquet with starff over many cups of Pimms. Such is the Englican way. Yet I, with hundreds others, am here for a parpuss. We are awl called to be here et an important pint in our charch’s history. Recognasing this, I have desayded to enter a tame of personal salence for the next few days. We awl meet for glorious liturgy in the Cethedral on Sinday, and we will have greeted our ecumenical frinds, but until Monday I will say no more. Let us awl pray for the ite-pouring of the Holy Spurt.
DAY TWO
Hello. I must be very discrete es I em on retreat in the wonderful mother charch of Centerbury, end et the moment I em crouching behained the shrane to may beloved saint, Thomas Beckitt. I em whispering into may parsonal episcopal recording devace, and Tensy (who smirks end calls this thing bay another name when borrowing it) will transcrabe it shortly. The decennial etmosphere here is elictric! Doctor Williams, whom I hold in hay regard despate his hirsute Celtic chin, gave a blainder of an opening address to the Bishops’ retreat. I was so overcome with emot-i-on thet I tarned to the Bishop next to me, a man frawm a part of Efrica I hed never hard of, end had never been pink in may old school etlas, end quoted may old friend from New Hempshire, crying, “I feel lake a boy!” The bishop’s dark end darting eyes told me thet, in Limbeth, I must be more carful in future. Tame to retarn to may seat.
DAY ONE
Hello! I am so exsated that I can hardly … oops! Never mained! Being here in Centerbury awlways feels lake coming home. Es I walk dine the familiar streets, jostling with shoppers end tourists alake, looking whimsically et the Jolly Sailor in Northgate Street, may mained goes beck to the iteings with the Guild of Sarvers of the Sinctuary awl those yars ago. Humphrey Mountford, the MC, awlways in charge. He chicked our cottas one by one before we went into the tearooms for ‘levenses. I wonder what happened to him after the ruling by the Diocese of Oxwich? Then there was Miss Hornblower, the village school teacher, who awlways came along for the raid, end who showed an unnatural fascinat-i-on with gargoyles, and the dark spaces behained the tomb of Saint Augustine. But I digress. Today I joined the other Bishops end Archbishops for luncheon in the grand refectory. I was told that may accompanying crucifer end acolytes were (what did they say?) “a bit over the top.” So I gave may boys twenty quids (you see, even es a Lord Bishop I cen still talk the vernacular!) end sent them into tine to enjoy themselves end make new Christian friends in the Tesco car park. Looking arind at the tables I saw thet I was the only one wearing cope end mater, so decided that it was tame to divest. Later this afternoon we met for prar in the main hall, end I marveled at the sea of faces arind me. Awl Englicens together. I hope to make many new friends over the next few days end hope to keep you, may people end darsis, informed every process-i-onal step of the way, in this, may farst blawg!
30 July 2008
28 July 2008
Irene Chrysovalantou
Icon of cypress trees bending toward Irene (with apples and angels).
28 July
Irene Chrysovalantou, deacon, abbess of a community of women at Constantinople, died in 921.
Irene was born about 826 to the prominent Gouber family in Byzantium. The empress planned to marry her to Prince Michael III. According to legend, on the way to the wedding she delayed to listen to the wisdom of a hermit. When she arrived at Constantinople, the prince was already married to someone else. Irene gave her jewelry to the church, entered the monastery of Chrysovalantou, and immediately engaged in vigils and prayer. Soon she was ordained deaconess and became the new abbess.
Increasing her spiritual struggles, with great trust in God to guide the community properly, she developed the gifts of foresight and exorcism. Her prayer through the night continued in the courtyard of the monastery, causing her to levitate and the cypress trees to bend toward her. She was granted three apples from John the Theologian and visions of angels. Icons often portray her with bending trees, apples, and angels. She appeared in a vision to the emperor to release an unjustly convicted man. After her death in 921, she continued to be a wonder worker. Her veneration and miracle working include a miraculous weeping icon of St Irene, written in 1921 by a monk at Mount Athos. It is now in the Orthodox monastery bearing her name at Astoria, Long Island.
Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus
28 July
Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, deacons, companions of Stephen and Philip, died 1st c. (see Acts 6:5).
All except Nicolaus were Hellenistic Jews who became Christians. According to tradition, Prochorus (or Prochoros) accompanied St John the Divine in exile on the island of Patmos. In icons Prochoros is portrayed as a scribe in a cave, taking dictation as John describes his vision of the Apocalypse (Revelation). Prochoros became bishop of Nicomedia and died in peace. Nicanor was stoned to death in Jerusalem. Timon became bishop of Bostra in Arabia and ended his life in martyrdom by fire at the hands of the pagans. Parmenas died in peace in Jerusalem. Nicolaus (or Nikolaos), a pagan from Antioch who became a Jew and then a Christian, was a deacon in Jerusalem.
Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, deacons, companions of Stephen and Philip, died 1st c. (see Acts 6:5).
All except Nicolaus were Hellenistic Jews who became Christians. According to tradition, Prochorus (or Prochoros) accompanied St John the Divine in exile on the island of Patmos. In icons Prochoros is portrayed as a scribe in a cave, taking dictation as John describes his vision of the Apocalypse (Revelation). Prochoros became bishop of Nicomedia and died in peace. Nicanor was stoned to death in Jerusalem. Timon became bishop of Bostra in Arabia and ended his life in martyrdom by fire at the hands of the pagans. Parmenas died in peace in Jerusalem. Nicolaus (or Nikolaos), a pagan from Antioch who became a Jew and then a Christian, was a deacon in Jerusalem.
27 July 2008
George of Palestine
27 July
George, deacon and martyr, monk from Palestine, with four companions, killed at Córdoba in Spain, c. 852. George and his four companions were martyred under Emir Abd ar-Rahman II. Aurelius and Felix, with their wives, Natalia and Liliosa, were Spaniards whose family backgrounds, although religiously mixed, legally required them to profess Islam. Given four days to recant, they were condemned as apostates for revealing their previously secret Christian faith. Deacon George was a monk from Palestine who was arrested along with the two couples. Though offered a pardon as a foreigner, he chose to denounce Islam again and die with the others.
George, deacon and martyr, monk from Palestine, with four companions, killed at Córdoba in Spain, c. 852. George and his four companions were martyred under Emir Abd ar-Rahman II. Aurelius and Felix, with their wives, Natalia and Liliosa, were Spaniards whose family backgrounds, although religiously mixed, legally required them to profess Islam. Given four days to recant, they were condemned as apostates for revealing their previously secret Christian faith. Deacon George was a monk from Palestine who was arrested along with the two couples. Though offered a pardon as a foreigner, he chose to denounce Islam again and die with the others.
25 July 2008
Olympias of Constantinople
25 July
Olympias of Constantinople, deacon, benefactor, cathedral staff member at Constantinople, and friend and disciple of the banished John Chrysostom, died on 25 July 410.
Born into a wealthy noble Constantinople family, Olympias was orphaned as a child and given over to the care of Theodosia by her uncle, the prefect Procopius. She married Nebridius, also a prefect, was widowed soon after, refused several offers of marriage, and had her fortune put in trust until she was thirty by Emperor Theodosius when she also refused his choice for a husband. When he restored her estate in 391, she was ordained deaconess and with several other women founded a community. She was so lavish in her almsgiving that her good friend John Chrysostom remonstrated with her, and when he became Patriarch of Constantinople in 398 he took her under his direction. She established a hospital and an orphanage and gave shelter to the expelled monks of Nitria.
When John Chrysostom was expelled from Constantinople in 404, Olympias became his firm supporter. She was fined by the prefect, Optatus, for refusing to accept the usurper Arsacius as Patriarch, and Arsacius’ successor, Atticus, disbanded her community and ended her charitable works. She spent the last years of her life beset by illness and persecution but comforted by Chrysostom from his place of exile. She died in exile in Nicomedia on 25 July 410, less than a year after the death of Chrysostom. [Also observed 17 Dec.]
22 July 2008
Theodora of Gaul
22 July
Theodora of Gaul, deacon, died 22 July 539. Her tomb carried this Latin inscription: “Here rests in peace and of good remembrance Theodora the deaconess who lived about 48 years and died on 22 July 539.”
Theodora of Gaul, deacon, died 22 July 539. Her tomb carried this Latin inscription: “Here rests in peace and of good remembrance Theodora the deaconess who lived about 48 years and died on 22 July 539.”
20 July 2008
Paul of Saint Zoilus
20 July
Paul of Saint Zoilus, deacon and martyr of Córdoba in Spain and a member of the community of Saint Zoilus in that city, beheaded in 851. Paul devoted much of his effort to bringing aid to Christians imprisoned by Muslim officials. Seized by members of the ruling Islamic government, he was beheaded.
Paul of Saint Zoilus, deacon and martyr of Córdoba in Spain and a member of the community of Saint Zoilus in that city, beheaded in 851. Paul devoted much of his effort to bringing aid to Christians imprisoned by Muslim officials. Seized by members of the ruling Islamic government, he was beheaded.
Barhadbesciabas of Arbela
20 July
Barhadbesciabas (sometimes called Barhadbesaba), deacon and martyr of Arbela in Persia, killed by beheading, in 355.
He was caught up in the persecution conducted by Sassanid King Shapur II and was tortured by the governor of the Persian region of Adiaban in modern Iran. Aggai, an apostate Christian, was ordered to behead Barhadbesciabas. He used the ax with such clumsiness that he had to strike the martyr again to slay him.
Barhadbesciabas (sometimes called Barhadbesaba), deacon and martyr of Arbela in Persia, killed by beheading, in 355.
He was caught up in the persecution conducted by Sassanid King Shapur II and was tortured by the governor of the Persian region of Adiaban in modern Iran. Aggai, an apostate Christian, was ordered to behead Barhadbesciabas. He used the ax with such clumsiness that he had to strike the martyr again to slay him.
19 July 2008
Arsenius the Great
19 July
Arsenius the Great, deacon of Rome and hermit in the desert of Egypt, died c. 449. Born about 360, Arsenius was the scion of a Roman senatorial family. He had an early career as tutor to the sons of Emperor Theodosius the Great. Pope Damasus I is said to have ordained Arsenius to the diaconate and to have recommended the learned cleric to the emperor. Arsenius later became a hermit at Sketis, in the desert near Alexandria in Egypt, and a disciple of John the Dwarf. After barbarians began to raid the monasteries, Arsenius moved to Troë near Memphis, and he spent fifteen years wandering in the desert. Numbered among the desert fathers, Arsenius wrote a guide to monastic life and a commentary on the gospel according to Luke, which describes the contemplative life.
Arsenius the Great, deacon of Rome and hermit in the desert of Egypt, died c. 449. Born about 360, Arsenius was the scion of a Roman senatorial family. He had an early career as tutor to the sons of Emperor Theodosius the Great. Pope Damasus I is said to have ordained Arsenius to the diaconate and to have recommended the learned cleric to the emperor. Arsenius later became a hermit at Sketis, in the desert near Alexandria in Egypt, and a disciple of John the Dwarf. After barbarians began to raid the monasteries, Arsenius moved to Troë near Memphis, and he spent fifteen years wandering in the desert. Numbered among the desert fathers, Arsenius wrote a guide to monastic life and a commentary on the gospel according to Luke, which describes the contemplative life.
Macrina the Younger
Modern icon of Macrina19 July
Macrina the Younger (also Makrina), deacon (then called deaconess), older sister of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, died in 379.
Macrina the Younger was born to a holy family in Cappadocia in 340. Her grandmother, Macrina the Elder, for whom she was named, lived in the days of the Emperor Diocletian, who made a determined effort to destroy the Christian faith. She and her husband fled into hiding, and survived into the time of Constantine. One of their sons, Basil the Elder, and his wife Emmelia had nine children. Five are commemorated as saints: Macrina the Younger, Basil the Great, Peter of Sebaste, Gregory of Nyssa, and Theosebia the Deaconess (see 10 January).
Macrina was the oldest child. She was betrothed at the age of twelve, after the custom of the day, but when her fiancé died she decided to devote her life to prayer, contemplation, and works of charity. After the death of her father, she convinced her mother to sell the family estates, and they formed a community of women who shared her goals. This convent or monastery was the first group of Christians living under the rules of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Macrina often brought poor and hungry women home to be fed, clothed, nursed, or otherwise taken care of, and many eventually joined the community, as did many women of means.
After the death of their parents, Macrina was chiefly responsible for the upbringing of her younger brothers. When they were inclined to be conceited about their intellectual accomplishments, she deflated them with affectionate but pointed jibes. Her example encouraged some of them to pursue the monastic ideal and to found monastic communities for men. Although Basil the Great is remembered as the founder of eastern monasticism (all Orthodox monks follow a variation of Basil’s monastic rule), the community of monks organized by Basil was preceded and inspired by the community of nuns organized by Macrina. Three of her brothers (Basil, Gregory, Peter) became bishops, and all of them were leading contenders for the faith of Nicaea against the Arians. She was buried in a grave shared with her parents, with a eulogy by her brother Gregory of Nyssa. In his Life of Macrina, Gregory records his last visit with her, her farewell speech, and her prayers and teachings about the resurrection.
Troparion (Tone 8)
The image of God was truly preserved in you, O Mother,
for you took up the cross and followed Christ.
By so doing, you taught us to disregard the flesh, for it passes away,
but to care instead for the soul, since it is immortal.
Therefore your spirit, O Holy Mother Macrina, rejoices with the angels!
Kontakion (Tone 4)
Since the light of righteousness shone brightly in you,
you were an example of the life of piety for all,
teaching the virtues to them that cry:
Rejoice, Macrina, you boast of virginity.
15 July 2008
Gundisalvus Hendriquez
15 July
Gundisalvus Hendriquez, Portuguese deacon and martyr, Jesuit scholar, killed with companions in the Canary Islands on 15 July 1570. Gundisalvus Hendriquez was a friend and companion of Ignatius de Azevedo (1528-1570), superior and leader of a band of forty Spanish and Portuguese Jesuit missionaries martyred by the Huguenot Jacques Sourie while en route to the West Indies. They were killed by drowning 15 July 1570 in the Canary Islands.
Gundisalvus Hendriquez, Portuguese deacon and martyr, Jesuit scholar, killed with companions in the Canary Islands on 15 July 1570. Gundisalvus Hendriquez was a friend and companion of Ignatius de Azevedo (1528-1570), superior and leader of a band of forty Spanish and Portuguese Jesuit missionaries martyred by the Huguenot Jacques Sourie while en route to the West Indies. They were killed by drowning 15 July 1570 in the Canary Islands.
Catulinus of Carthage
15 July
Catulinus (also called Cartholinus), deacon and martyr, with companions Januarius, Florentius, Julia, and Justa, killed at Carthage in North Africa, under Diocletian, in 303. Nothing is known of their martyrdom. Their bodies were buried in the basilica of bishop Faustus in Carthage. In praise of Catulinus, St Augustine preached a panegyric to the faithful.
Catulinus (also called Cartholinus), deacon and martyr, with companions Januarius, Florentius, Julia, and Justa, killed at Carthage in North Africa, under Diocletian, in 303. Nothing is known of their martyrdom. Their bodies were buried in the basilica of bishop Faustus in Carthage. In praise of Catulinus, St Augustine preached a panegyric to the faithful.
12 July 2008
Two new priests
The worst kept secret in New Orleans has been the ordination this week of two new priests, Giulianna Cappelletti Gray and Phoebe Roaf, both recent graduates of Virginia Theological Seminary. (I say "secret" because not a word has appeared in the Times-Picayune. Doesn't anyone there care about news?)
Giulianna was ordained Sunday at St George's, New Orleans, where she is assistant rector and also functions as chaplain of the Tulane-Loyola university ministry. (Where does the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Tulane fit into this picture?) During the ceremony, the lights (and A/C) went off during the offertory and stayed off until communion, but the bishop went right ahead and sang the Sursum corda and preface, in the muggy semi-dark, as if nothing had happened. Giulianna is married to Peter Gray, a transitional deacon recently hired as a Latino missioner at St Anna's Church in New Orleans; he is also the son of Duncan Gray, bishop of Mississippi, who was at the ordination.
Phoebe was ordained Wednesday at Trinity, New Orleans, where she is associate rector. An African-American, she was formerly a lawyer with a big firm in the business district. She is also the sister of Willie Roaf, a former player with the Saints, but I suspect that eventually Willie will be known more as Phoebe's brother. After her first sermon at Trinity, last Sunday, the congregation broke into applause, a reaction rarely encountered in an Episcopal church. (She mentioned the misogynistic aspects of Paul, and afterwards some women asked her to start a Bible class on the apostle.) Her ordination included a surprise appearance by Deacon John, the jazz musician, who sang and played on guitar an impromptu prelude and stuck around for the ordination and reception dinner.
I can't wait till one or both of them is in the running for bishop (of Louisiana, of course).
Giulianna was ordained Sunday at St George's, New Orleans, where she is assistant rector and also functions as chaplain of the Tulane-Loyola university ministry. (Where does the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Tulane fit into this picture?) During the ceremony, the lights (and A/C) went off during the offertory and stayed off until communion, but the bishop went right ahead and sang the Sursum corda and preface, in the muggy semi-dark, as if nothing had happened. Giulianna is married to Peter Gray, a transitional deacon recently hired as a Latino missioner at St Anna's Church in New Orleans; he is also the son of Duncan Gray, bishop of Mississippi, who was at the ordination.
Phoebe was ordained Wednesday at Trinity, New Orleans, where she is associate rector. An African-American, she was formerly a lawyer with a big firm in the business district. She is also the sister of Willie Roaf, a former player with the Saints, but I suspect that eventually Willie will be known more as Phoebe's brother. After her first sermon at Trinity, last Sunday, the congregation broke into applause, a reaction rarely encountered in an Episcopal church. (She mentioned the misogynistic aspects of Paul, and afterwards some women asked her to start a Bible class on the apostle.) Her ordination included a surprise appearance by Deacon John, the jazz musician, who sang and played on guitar an impromptu prelude and stuck around for the ordination and reception dinner.
I can't wait till one or both of them is in the running for bishop (of Louisiana, of course).
Fortunato
12 July
Fortunato, deacon and martyr, killed with his bishop Ermacora at Aquileia, near the northern Adriatic coast of Italy, in 1st c. According to legend, St Mark converted and ordained Ermacora during a mission to northeastern Italy. The cathedral at Udine contains a painting of the two martyrs by Tiepolo (1737).
Fortunato, deacon and martyr, killed with his bishop Ermacora at Aquileia, near the northern Adriatic coast of Italy, in 1st c. According to legend, St Mark converted and ordained Ermacora during a mission to northeastern Italy. The cathedral at Udine contains a painting of the two martyrs by Tiepolo (1737).
06 July 2008
Pas de foie gras
Le Monde reported the following comment by Mme. Ingrid Betancourt on her physical condition (which the western press failed to pick up, probably because they didn't understand the Gallic implications of liver for health or sickness):
Le foie fonctionne parfaitement. (The liver works perfectly.)
Le foie fonctionne parfaitement. (The liver works perfectly.)
Isaurius of Apollonia
6 July
Isaurius, deacon and martyr, with companions, beheaded at Apollonia in Macedonia in 283-284. Isaurius and his companions Innocent, Felix, Hermias, Basil, and Peregrinus were Athenians, suffering for Christ in the Macedonian city of Apollonia under the emperor Numerian (283-284). Beheaded with them for believing in Christ were two city officials, Rufus and Ruphinus.
Isaurius, deacon and martyr, with companions, beheaded at Apollonia in Macedonia in 283-284. Isaurius and his companions Innocent, Felix, Hermias, Basil, and Peregrinus were Athenians, suffering for Christ in the Macedonian city of Apollonia under the emperor Numerian (283-284). Beheaded with them for believing in Christ were two city officials, Rufus and Ruphinus.
05 July 2008
Athanasius of Jerusalem
5 July
Athanasius, deacon and martyr, killed at Jerusalem, in 452. Athanasius denounced Theodosius, a heretic who usurped the see of Jerusalem, formerly held by bishop Juvenal. Arrested for this act, Athanasius was beheaded.
Athanasius, deacon and martyr, killed at Jerusalem, in 452. Athanasius denounced Theodosius, a heretic who usurped the see of Jerusalem, formerly held by bishop Juvenal. Arrested for this act, Athanasius was beheaded.
04 July 2008
Our true national anthem
Yes, fellow Americans, it's time to replace the awful, pompous, unsingable "Star-Spangled Banner" (so often sung these days to some hideous melody) with the truly American, saucy, irreverent "Yankee Doodle," which has been freely adapted during our history as time and circumstance prompted. Here's one version, good for a start. Now let's all sing together, with fifes and drums:
Yankee Doodle went to town,
A-riding on a pony;
He stuck a feather in his hat,
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
Fath'r and I went down to camp,
Along with Cap'n Goodin',
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty puddin'.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there we saw a thousand men
As rich as Squire David,
And what they wasted every day,
I wish it could be saved.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
The 'lasses they eat it every day,
Would keep a house a winter;
They have so much, that I'll be bound,
They eat it when they've mind ter.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there I see a swamping gun
Large as a log of maple,
Upon a deuced little cart,
A load for father's cattle.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And every time they shoot it off,
It takes a horn of powder,
and makes a noise like father's gun,
Only a nation louder.
Yankee Doodle , keep it up, etc.
I went as nigh to one myself
As 'Siah's inderpinning;
And father went as nigh again,
I thought the deuce was in him.
Yankee Doodle , keep it up, etc.
Cousin Simon grew so bold,
I thought he would have cocked it;
It scared me so I shrinked it off
And hung by father's pocket.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And Cap'n Davis had a gun,
He kind of clapt his hand on't
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
Upon the little end on't
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there I see a pumpkin shell
As big as mother's bason,
And every time they touched it off
They scampered like the nation.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
I see a little barrel too,
The heads were made of leather;
They knocked on it with little clubs
And called the folks together.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there was Cap'n Washington,
And gentle folks about him;
They say he's grown so 'tarnal proud
He will not ride without em'.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
He got him on his meeting clothes,
Upon a slapping stallion;
He sat the world along in rows,
In hundreds and in millions.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
The flaming ribbons in his hat,
They looked so tearing fine, ah,
I wanted dreadfully to get
To give to my Jemima.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
I see another snarl of men
A digging graves they told me,
So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep,
They 'tended they should hold me.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
It scared me so, I hooked it off,
Nor stopped, as I remember,
Nor turned about till I got home,
Locked up in mother's chamber.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
During the Civil War, southerners added some lines of their own:
Yankee Doodle had a mind
To whip the Southern rebels,
Because they did not choose to live
On codfish from his tables.
Yankee Doodle, fa, so la,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
And so to keep his courage up,
He took a drink of brandy.
And you can make up your own, so long as you don't mess with the tune. So let's hear it for our new national anthem!
Yankee Doodle went to town,
A-riding on a pony;
He stuck a feather in his hat,
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
Fath'r and I went down to camp,
Along with Cap'n Goodin',
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty puddin'.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there we saw a thousand men
As rich as Squire David,
And what they wasted every day,
I wish it could be saved.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
The 'lasses they eat it every day,
Would keep a house a winter;
They have so much, that I'll be bound,
They eat it when they've mind ter.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there I see a swamping gun
Large as a log of maple,
Upon a deuced little cart,
A load for father's cattle.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And every time they shoot it off,
It takes a horn of powder,
and makes a noise like father's gun,
Only a nation louder.
Yankee Doodle , keep it up, etc.
I went as nigh to one myself
As 'Siah's inderpinning;
And father went as nigh again,
I thought the deuce was in him.
Yankee Doodle , keep it up, etc.
Cousin Simon grew so bold,
I thought he would have cocked it;
It scared me so I shrinked it off
And hung by father's pocket.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And Cap'n Davis had a gun,
He kind of clapt his hand on't
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
Upon the little end on't
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there I see a pumpkin shell
As big as mother's bason,
And every time they touched it off
They scampered like the nation.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
I see a little barrel too,
The heads were made of leather;
They knocked on it with little clubs
And called the folks together.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
And there was Cap'n Washington,
And gentle folks about him;
They say he's grown so 'tarnal proud
He will not ride without em'.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
He got him on his meeting clothes,
Upon a slapping stallion;
He sat the world along in rows,
In hundreds and in millions.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
The flaming ribbons in his hat,
They looked so tearing fine, ah,
I wanted dreadfully to get
To give to my Jemima.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
I see another snarl of men
A digging graves they told me,
So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep,
They 'tended they should hold me.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
It scared me so, I hooked it off,
Nor stopped, as I remember,
Nor turned about till I got home,
Locked up in mother's chamber.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.
During the Civil War, southerners added some lines of their own:
Yankee Doodle had a mind
To whip the Southern rebels,
Because they did not choose to live
On codfish from his tables.
Yankee Doodle, fa, so la,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
And so to keep his courage up,
He took a drink of brandy.
And you can make up your own, so long as you don't mess with the tune. So let's hear it for our new national anthem!
03 July 2008
A hazard of Gay nomenclature
From the Washington Post this morning:
"Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has. . . . 'It means a lot to me,' the 25-year-old Homosexual said."
That's how Tyson Gay found his race reported by the American Family Association, which has an automatic word-replacement program to banish the awful word gay. So much for human judgment.
I have a lot of cousins in south Louisiana who bear the family name of Gay. Some of them may find the popular meaning of the word amusing.
"Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has. . . . 'It means a lot to me,' the 25-year-old Homosexual said."
That's how Tyson Gay found his race reported by the American Family Association, which has an automatic word-replacement program to banish the awful word gay. So much for human judgment.
I have a lot of cousins in south Louisiana who bear the family name of Gay. Some of them may find the popular meaning of the word amusing.
Jessie Carryl Smith, deaconess
3 July
Jessie Carryl Smith, deaconess at Holy Trinity Church in Paris, France, and later in Alaska, New York, and Philadelphia, died 3 July 1923.
Jessie Carryl Smith was an actress in New York. At the age of thirty, Smith entered the New York Training School for Deaconesses, graduating in 1902. She was set apart as a deaconess at Holy Trinity Church in Paris in 1906. While in Paris she ran a small hospital infirmary. During World War I Deaconess Smith served on the front lines in France at various field hospitals, including one that cared for wounded Senegalese soldiers serving with the Third Army of France. For her work on the frontlines, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre with the Medaille de Reconnaissance by the government of France. In 1920 Smith traveled to Fort Yukon in Alaska to serve in the mission field, returning in 1921 to New York. She served the parish of St Simeon in the Bronx and was also manager of the St Paul’s Chapel Lunch Club in lower Manhattan. In 1922 she took a position at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Philadelphia where she taught a course in church history at a private girls’ school. She died suddenly on 3 July 1923 at Kings Park, Long Island, New York. [research of Deacon Geri Swanson]
Jessie Carryl Smith, deaconess at Holy Trinity Church in Paris, France, and later in Alaska, New York, and Philadelphia, died 3 July 1923.
Jessie Carryl Smith was an actress in New York. At the age of thirty, Smith entered the New York Training School for Deaconesses, graduating in 1902. She was set apart as a deaconess at Holy Trinity Church in Paris in 1906. While in Paris she ran a small hospital infirmary. During World War I Deaconess Smith served on the front lines in France at various field hospitals, including one that cared for wounded Senegalese soldiers serving with the Third Army of France. For her work on the frontlines, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre with the Medaille de Reconnaissance by the government of France. In 1920 Smith traveled to Fort Yukon in Alaska to serve in the mission field, returning in 1921 to New York. She served the parish of St Simeon in the Bronx and was also manager of the St Paul’s Chapel Lunch Club in lower Manhattan. In 1922 she took a position at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Philadelphia where she taught a course in church history at a private girls’ school. She died suddenly on 3 July 1923 at Kings Park, Long Island, New York. [research of Deacon Geri Swanson]
Irenaeus of Clusium
3 July
Irenaeus, deacon and martyr, with the Roman matron Mustiola, killed at Clusium (Chiusi) in Tuscany, in the reign of the emperor Aurelian, in 273. Irenaeus was arrested for burying the martyred Felix of Sutri and was slain in the presence of Mustiola. She was beaten to death with a club after spurning the advances of a local magistrate.
Irenaeus, deacon and martyr, with the Roman matron Mustiola, killed at Clusium (Chiusi) in Tuscany, in the reign of the emperor Aurelian, in 273. Irenaeus was arrested for burying the martyred Felix of Sutri and was slain in the presence of Mustiola. She was beaten to death with a club after spurning the advances of a local magistrate.
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