[Magdalen] Rose is a Rose.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Mostly green and white.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, our very small church doesn't have any rose hangings (nor any blue
> ones for Advent, either), so everything was purple today. The vicar did,
> however, have on a pair of socks that were mostly gray and black with a
> rose-colored stripe! She said it was her nod in the direction of the day.
>
> On March 6, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>
> It's mid-Lenten Sunday, and I'll ask my usual question:  How many  parishes
> used rose vestments today?  Mine did, although they do not have the  nice,
> subtle rose some parishes own.  The local ones today were a sort  of
> prom-pink.
> There were flowers, but, then, the parish does not observe the flower  free
> high altar custom, and the worshipper is likely to encounter floral
> displays
> throughout Lent.
>
> Overheard new Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Eau Claire:
> "You'll never catch me in pink!"
>
> For that matter, I've told of my shock in the past of encountering floral
> displays at the side altars of the rigidly conservative Latin Riters.   It
> was then I learned that the flower proscription during Lent only  applies
> to the high altar.
>
> Back in my fussy liturgical days, I was pleased with the custom of
> including a few roses painted gold in with the other red roses for  the
> altar bouquets on this day.  This was the custom at the time at  the
> Cathedral in Eau Claire.  That was a bit much, in retrospect since  it
> was secondary to a Papal custom of sending a gilded rose on this
> day to the Catholic rulers of Europe.
>
> The customs for this Rose Sunday all derive ultimately from the  Proper
> anthem for this Sunday:  The plainsong is especially lovely on this  day.
>
>
> The  full _Introit_ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introit)  reads:
> «Laetare Jerusalem: et conventum facite omnes qui  diligitis eam: gaudete
> cum laetitia, qui in tristitia fuistis: ut  exsultetis,et satiemini ab
> uberibus consolationis vestrae. Psalm: Laetatus sum in his  quae dicta
> sunt mihi:
> in domum Domini ibimus.»
>
> «Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you  that love her: rejoice
> with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may  exult, and be filled
> from the breasts of your consolation. Psalm: I rejoiced when they  said to
> me:
> "we shall go into God's House!"
> David  Strang.
>