Posted on 08/27/2015 1:31:50 PM PDT by NYer
**The above image is the interior of Center Church on the Green, a colonial era Congregational church in New Haven, Connecticut.**
Guess I don’t get to sit in pew 1. <sarc off
What’s important is that our name is written in the Book of Life, not on the back of a pew.
You will notice they had both the feather and the gourd. The feather was for the elderly, and the gourd was for everyone else.
Gee, the only pews I’ve seen like the ones on the picture were when visiting chapels at convents... Nice! Not certain my cane and I could fit through the little door, lol!
"Spare us from those pews whose “kneelers” crash to the floor like thunder."
ROTFL! Who cannot identify with that one?!
I was in the choir at the parish I grew up in. I was the youngest, and we all had robes. A gigantic bee from the bell tower got in with us- all I could think of was the poor elderly people and what would happen if the bee got up their sleeves!
Well, the thing landed on the choir loft floor amd I saw my opportunity. A three- inch solid wedge platform shoe, with a four-inch heel came crashing down on the bee- and unfortunately, the floor... And it sounded like the Armageddon! I gave Monsignor, who was in the middle of a homily, a thumbs up to let him know no one needed extreme unction- although I would have needed it if our choir director could have reached me. Boy, how things used to echo!
IMHO, it's because of the kneelers...
Another ROTFL! That's me! Unless I was praying the Stations of the Cross, I'd be sitting or kneeling in my pew praying my Rosary!
Frankly, now I have to have somewhere to sit, and a pew gives me room to stretch my leg, and shift in my seat so my legs don't swell and go numb. I like pews, except for when I have to walk sideways like a crab, with my cane, on order to go to Communion- we don't have ushers, but it's pretty well-organised... My other parish has passed seats and padded kneelers, and I didn't care for it, either. It took away the "offer it up" factor...
Remember those little clippy things on the backs of the pews, for the men to put their hats? Back then, men never wore hats indoors- least of all in Church!
Definitely not while wearing courderoy pants!
Thanks for the post! It was interesting, and a lot of fun! I still vote for pews, though...
Who the heck came up with courderoy - ???!
Courde Roy - hmmmm
Well, nothing like the sound they make when rubbing together on ones legs - -
Then there’s wide courdes, and narrow courdes.. . .
That particular device was still in use in the Christian Reformed church my grandparents attended when I was a lad - Though it was but a very long stick with a billiard-ball sized knob at the end...
‘Wide Wail Was The Worst.’
No need to apologize - I love alliteration - !
However, I don’t think the the pants were crying - - : ^ ]
LOL, it must be "wale" unless they're swimming, too! 🐋🐳
I just remembered - my grandfather was a deacon/usher in his Scottish Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York. From about the 1940’s to about the 1970’s.
He was known to give the ‘long plate’ to more than one person, as he collected the offerings!
He was a quiet man, really, and was a great entertainer, telling Scottish and Irish jokes, and singing the songs of those cultures.
‘Harry’ was born in Scotland.
He often MC’d events in his church, and later in the Salvation Army home on Long Island, where he lived the last 10 years of his life.
He’s probably been tapped to MC in heaven - !!!
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