Post by McTrustry on Oct 29, 2013 21:38:10 GMT -5
The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. (PAUSE)
When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. (PAUSE)
And when [the church] buries a person, that action concerns me. All [of humanity] is of one author, and is one volume; when one [person] dies, (PAUSE)
one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; (PAUSE)
and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, (PAUSE)
some by sickness, (PAUSE)
some by war, (PAUSE)
some by justice; (PAUSE)
but [the Lord’s] hand is in every translation, (PAUSE)
and [God’s] hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for book shall lie open to one another. (PAUSE)
As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon calls not upon the preacher only but upon the congregation to come, so this bell calls us all. . . . (PAUSE)
No [one] is an island entire of itself; every[one] is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. (PAUSE)
Any[one’s] death diminishes me, because I am involved in [hu]mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; (PAUSE)
it tolls for thee.” (PAUSE)
Proceed with the reading of the names
from John Donne’s Meditation XVII of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. (PAUSE)
And when [the church] buries a person, that action concerns me. All [of humanity] is of one author, and is one volume; when one [person] dies, (PAUSE)
one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; (PAUSE)
and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, (PAUSE)
some by sickness, (PAUSE)
some by war, (PAUSE)
some by justice; (PAUSE)
but [the Lord’s] hand is in every translation, (PAUSE)
and [God’s] hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for book shall lie open to one another. (PAUSE)
As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon calls not upon the preacher only but upon the congregation to come, so this bell calls us all. . . . (PAUSE)
No [one] is an island entire of itself; every[one] is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. (PAUSE)
Any[one’s] death diminishes me, because I am involved in [hu]mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; (PAUSE)
it tolls for thee.” (PAUSE)
Proceed with the reading of the names
from John Donne’s Meditation XVII of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions