{"id":18964,"date":"2013-03-04T22:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T03:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18964"},"modified":"2013-03-04T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T03:45:28","slug":"sold-out-saturnalia-at-st-georges-anglican-church-crescentwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sold-out-saturnalia-at-st-georges-anglican-church-crescentwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold-out Saturnalia at St George\u2019s Anglican Church Crescentwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all happened on December 21st<\/sup>, 2012, so I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s too late to attend. Still, I\u2019m sure there will be another multifaith sacred celebration of the winter solstice<\/i> in 2013 – \u00a0for Anglicans addicted to exploring any faith but their own. It was billed as \u201ca winter solstice sacred \u00a0celebration\u201d, so expectant revellers – and this author – must be forgiven for anticipating a Saturnalia. <\/i>As it was, <\/i>the Roman deity Saturn was one of the few faux-gods not represented in 2012. We can only hope for fuller inclusion in future bacchanalias – come to think of it, Bacchus was also excluded. Shocking.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a> (page 4):<\/i><\/p>\n

On the evening of Friday, December 21, St George\u2019s Anglican Church Crescentwood was the scene of a sold-out crowd when over 550 people attended a unique multifaith sacred celebration of the winter solstice. [\u2026.] Following a welcome by Rev Lyndon Hutchison-Hounsell , the evening opened with the Muslim Call to Prayer by Albert El Tassi and the Hindu Blessing by Pundit Venkat Machiraju. The varied mult-faith program included a harp solo by Lisa Tucker, the singing of a Ukrainian prayer by Larissa Klymkiw, the playing of Crystal Bowls by Keeper Kevin Woods, a Cree prayer by First Nations member Sylvia James, The Story of the Drum by Sister Norma McDonald and Franco-M\u00e9tis member Janelle de Rocquigny, and The Bear Song by First Nations member Debbie Cielen and the Singing With Spirit Drum Group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It all happened on December 21st, 2012, so I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s too late to attend. Still, I\u2019m sure there will be another multifaith sacred celebration of the winter solstice in 2013 – \u00a0for Anglicans addicted to exploring any faith but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1446],"class_list":["post-18964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-mayhem","tag-st-georges-anglican-church-crescentwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}