The Blessing of the Backpacks
Sep 5, 2017 11:53:49 #
On my way home today, I passed a church with a sign out front: "Blessing of the Backpacks..."
I've heard of blessing cars, motorcycles, and boats, but this is a first for backpacks. I guess kids need all the help they can get.
I've heard of blessing cars, motorcycles, and boats, but this is a first for backpacks. I guess kids need all the help they can get.
Sep 5, 2017 12:09:41 #
kenpic
Loc: Edmonds, WA
Many churches have this ritual, which include giving each child a new backpack and praying for a good school year.
Sep 5, 2017 12:22:38 #
1Feathercrest
Loc: NEPA
jerryc41 wrote:
On my way home today, I passed a church with a sign out front: "Blessing of the Backpacks..."
I've heard of blessing cars, motorcycles, and boats, but this is a first for backpacks. I guess kids need all the help they can get.
I've heard of blessing cars, motorcycles, and boats, but this is a first for backpacks. I guess kids need all the help they can get.
Blessing of inanimate objects is an inanity. This is superficial religion of low I.Q. people and prelates.
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Sep 5, 2017 19:36:46 #
1Feathercrest wrote:
Blessing of inanimate objects is an inanity. This is superficial religion of low I.Q. people and prelates.
Lighten up my friend. I'm Agnostic but if the clergy in my area started to bless musical instruments, I'd go along just in case. I might meet a new muso just down the road from me.
Sep 6, 2017 07:29:41 #
Texcaster wrote:
Lighten up my friend. I'm Agnostic but if the clergy in my area started to bless musical instruments, I'd go along just in case. I might meet a new muso just down the road from me.
I vote for a camera blessing!
Sep 6, 2017 09:43:01 #
Texcaster wrote:
Lighten up my friend. I'm Agnostic but if the clergy in my area started to bless musical instruments, I'd go along just in case. I might meet a new muso just down the road from me.
Thank you for replying to this insult. And I don't care if you are an agnostic - you're a very nice person.
Sep 6, 2017 15:44:34 #
Some people just have a negative view of life. Tragic, as they probably miss a lot of beauty in this world.
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Sep 6, 2017 20:11:14 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I vote for a camera blessing!
I would vote for a film blessing, but then I remembered we don't use film anymore.
Sep 7, 2017 00:50:29 #
Hal81 wrote:
I would vote for a film blessing, but then I remembered we don't use film anymore.
I would appreciate that if the film blessing stimulated a revelation as where I might find the film that I didn't get around to having processed when my interest in photography waned (somewhere late in the last century). Now that retirement and the coming-of-age of the Digital SLR have allowed a rebirth (it would be pretentious to say renaissance) of that interest, it would be interesting to see if my last efforts with film were any good.
Sep 7, 2017 07:05:31 #
Hal81 wrote:
I would vote for a film blessing, but then I remembered we don't use film anymore.
How about sensors, with a longer blessing for larger sensors?
Sep 7, 2017 07:52:00 #
jerryc41 wrote:
How about sensors, with a longer blessing for larger sensors?
'May your sensors orthochromatically bask in refulgent dawns and polychromatic sunsets.'
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