Thursday, June 24
The Frauenkirche, Dresden, from an archival photograph. Clearly not Pastor Inqvist's home parish.
Lutherans, Maggie Magdalene and Sea Cows
Brian (alias "the Protein Shake King") of In Pectore asks to Stop the Manatee Hate. *** Zadok is incredulous at an atrocious translation of the New Testament featuring such characters as Maggie, Barry and John the Dipper, as yet unknown to Scriptural exegetes. *** Dresden completes the reconstruction of the spectacular eighteenth-century über-Lutheran Frauenkirche, which got the crud blasted out of it by Allied troops in 1945. *** While you're in the Saxon mood, check out the Gabrieli Consort's recording of the Christmas Vespers of Heinrich Schütz, which prefigured Handel's Messiah and, like the Frauenkirche, proves that Lutherans, too, have their own extravagant moments from time to time. At least outside of Lake Wobegon. *** And lastly, the Holy Father meets the Harlem Globetrotters (sounds like an episode of Scooby Doo, methinks) and we hear about joke the Pope told involving Cardinal Wystinski and skiing, and a very funny one at that.
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