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[tree_and_leaf]

• 21:18 @GMWWemyss A more effective version of toothache for the neuralgia? Though whether it's a good effect is presumably open to question. #
• 23:15 Don't actually dislike the Bhunahabhain Darch Úr I bought at duty free last time, but rather wish I'd bought the 14yo Highland park instead. #
• 23:27 Still, if you never tried anything new... #
• 08:51 www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/9093 The BNP's new ad makes me feel physically sick & extremely angry. How dare they try to co-opt Christ? #
• 08:58 Though so grotesquely inappropriate it's nearly funny (ponders sending Griffin J. John's chapter on the healing of the centurion's servant). #
• 09:05 Cynical bastards. Hope everyone treats campaign with total contempt it deserves. Surely it can't convince anyone? #
• 10:10 @s_adelheid Well, I'm glad I read about it first, given that it's possible I might see the damned thing IRL, but it's very upsetting. #
• 10:18 Note to self: extra money for organic free range eggs (as opposed to merely free range) is worth it. So is walk to Tesco vs to corner shop. #
• 10:29 @s_adelheid Yes, it is difficult (I'm not really happy with mine) #
• 10:31 Dreamwidth looks interesting, doesn't it? #
• 11:03 tinyurl.com/d9oax6 Derrick is dead (bizarre to learn this from Grauniad, though) #
• 11:06 This day in 1461: Battle of Towton, prob. bloodiest battle fought on English soil (and Scottish too?) #
• 13:05 *sigh* ended up blogging against new BNP poster rather than writing thesis. Good intentions fail again. Was too angry to concentrate, tho. #
• 15:50 Trying to remember how the wide game 'clam bake' goes - google keeps producing hits about scientology.... #
• 15:54 "undress woman game"? Er... no, not for the Cub age group, I think! #
• 15:55 Coming down with a cold, I fear..... #
• 16:34 Why is the lj syndication of "Slacktivist" suddenly accompanied by pictures of muscular young men wearing only their pants? I don't object #
• 16:41 ... to scantily clad, attractive men _on principle_, but it's a bit inappropriate after an article on torture. Badly targeted ads? #
• 17:04 Oh dear. Next door neighbour is doing something involving a drill. #
• 17:05 tinyurl.com/cekwma Unexpected uses for knickers (SFW). #
• 18:07 *is arrested to note that the term 'black mass' is also used for requiems (tho' the only requiem mass I've been to used white vestments).* #
• 18:10 The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is full of interesting stuff like that, eg concept of Dry Mass (no, not one using grape juice) #

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Comments

[wychwood]

I think the requiem thing could well be an archaism - I seem to remember being told that we used to use black vestments for funerals, but you're right that these days it's pretty much all white. I think it's a general shift in focus, you know?

Wiki has a whole bunch of stuff about liturgical colours which seems to back that up. Black's optional for funerals and All Souls, but in the modern RC rite white is the norm.

[tree_and_leaf]

*nods* That would make sense. And the Wikipedia page is very clear and informative.

(I've never been anywhere that did blue in Advent, but I like the idea. Though of course it's another set of tat...)