Show of hands....who caught crap for doing Pentecost

[Critters2]

and not Memorial Day? :eyes:

I'll stop there, for fear of ranting.

[RevCheesehead]

1. I did Pentecost AND Confirmation.

But yeah, someone was pissed because the flags weren't up front. :eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Why do you hate America?

Hippy.

:eyes:

Amazing how people don't get the difference between Holy-Day and (secular/national) holiday.

One sometimes wants just to slap the bejeezus out of them.

But if I went around slapping every one who needs it, I'd never finish. I'd certainly never have time for a Martini.

Jackasses.

[Kat45]

3. Our church did Pentecost, no Memorial Day.

Nobody even thought to mention Memorial Day vis a vis the church, and we have several veterans in our congregation. I'm so glad to be part of a church in which people don't make an issue out of every foolish thing.

[Critters2]

6. This is as it should be.

Memorial Day is not a church holiday, and has no business being mentioned in worship. The church has its own memorial day--All Saints' or Totenfest, depending on the congregation's tradition.

Apparently, the church had a long line of well, for lack of a more tactful term, panderers, who made a bfd out of every patriotic holiday. It was the tradition to sing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" on the day before Memorial Day (as I keep pointing out, Memorial Day is NOT a Sunday). I didn't choose that as one of our hymns Sunday. And I heard about it. Not by a lot of people but a vocal minority. They assured me that it would have been okay, because Julia Ward Howe was a Congregationalist. So, I'm not a good American OR a good Congregationalist.

That I ever claim to be either one.

[JVS]

4. I missed Church

[elshiva]

5. We did both Pentecost and Memorial Day in the CORRECT ORDER!

We did a Pentecost celebration at the regular service in the morning.

Then in the afternoon there was a small service for a memorial plaque for
a man (I did not know)who was killed in the Vietnam War. He had been a Boy Scout and a Sunday School teacher, so that's fine. We DID pray for peace.

I think that is the proper order of things. NO FLAGS!