[Magdalen] today is ... ?

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 18:46:13 UTC 2016


In German, Good Friday is Karfreitag and Holy Saturday is Karsamstag.
Maundy Thursday is Gründonnerstag ("Green Thursday"), for some reason.
On Mar 26, 2016 1:37 PM, "James Oppenheimer-Crawford" <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess that would explain why it slipped my mind....
>
> 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 Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > In the 1979 BCP it's called "Holy Saturday" - see p. 283.
> >
> > Chad Wohlers
> > all tired out from cutting down some beech & birch trees, in
> > Woodbury, VT USA
> > chadwohl at satucket.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 2:17 PM
> > To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > Subject: [Magdalen] today is ... ?
> >
> > There are names for various days -- Maundy thursday, Good Friday, Easter,
> > and even spy wednesday, but is there a name for dead saturday?
> >
> > It seems to me I heard a term for it once, but none of us here in Hyde
> Park
> > can think what it is.  I suppose this is about as trivial a question as
> one
> > can get, but that's certainly never been an obstacle to discussion here.
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
>


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