Chruch anagrams

Are there hidden codes (anagrams) in the name of the Norwegian Lutheran Chruch "Den norske kirke"?

- den snorkekirke (the snoring church)
- der ikon krenkes (where icons are desecrated)
- der kikker sonen (the son is looking there)
- der knekk senior (senior is breaking down)
- der koner nikkes (where wives are nodded)

I guess The Anglican Church is even more suspicious:

- anal church etching
- angelic hutch ranch
- caching earth lunch
- chagrin clean hutch
- chain church tangle
- change church Latin
- church ethnic lagan

My reed organ

I inherited a Chicago "The Lakeside" reed organ ("American organ", or "harmonium") from my grandmother who died in 1994, but up until now my aunt has taken care of it. Yesterday I rented a car trailer and drove up to my aunt and took it with me. See pictures of the organ after I have secured it safely on the trailer:
-Harmonium secured on trailer, front view
-Harmonium secured on trailer, side view
The sheet music stand and some detachable decorative wood are not shown in the pictures. These were detached and put in box during transport. So last night I delivered the harmonium at an organ builders work shop to get it repaired and cleaned. He was kind enough to welcome me 10.15 pm on a Saturday. He even showed me around his work shop and invited me into his house to try his pipe organ.

I expect to get my beloved organ back some time during spring 2006. The sound quality and the key action of this organ is very good, so I am looking forward to have this instrument in my living room. It's visual appearance is also nice.

Lutheran issues

Even though my christian journey began in an anglo-catholic-style congregation within the Scottish Episcopal Church, I was baptised and confirmed in the Norwegian Lutheran Church and has always been an official member there. But since the lutheran church was forced upon me and never managed to awaken my interest or open mind, I dicovered the christian faith outwith the church I "grew up" in. I wish to point out that my parents never went to church but once a year, so that would be a feasible explanation why I did not catch up with my religion before adulthood. Now that I am stuck with the Norwegian Lutheran Church I might as well make the best of it.

My main objection against the Norwegian Lutheran Church is that the Holy Communion is not celebrated at every (Sunday) service, but rather once a month. There is nothing "un-Lutheran" about the Eucharist, rather the contrary. It is a mystery why Norwegians can not get this into their tiny little heads.

This article/essay by Pastor Klemet Preus presents quite much that of my own view on the subject:

http://www.consensuslutheran.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=196&mode=thread

Lutheranism isn't a new religion, in short, it should (but seldom does) take all the good things from Roman catholisism only with the native language, take back the parts of the service that the medieval catholics omitted, and do away with the pope. That is Lutheranism in a nut-shell, but so far away from what is practiced in most churches today. I find this upsetting, irritating and demoralising. This has, of course, nothing to do with church music...

Evensong BBC Radio 3 - 7/9/05

The Introit "Holy is the True Light" by Richard Shephard is a lovely piece of music, and the hymn Praise to the Holiest (Gerontius) is also an excellent hymn - very Anglican. The Edington Service composed by Grayston Ives for the 1975 Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy gave us the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis on this Wednesday's choral evensong, a modern type of music that uses a very simple and illogical progression, but yet predictable in it's own peculiar way - in other words not very interesting to listen to, but some very powerful reeds there in the last Amen of the last Gloria. As for the voluntary by Messiaen (or Messy Ian as I sometimes call him) - either you love his music, or you hate it. It's probably as close you'll ever get to jazz without hearing anybody referring to it as such.

The service was sung by the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir in Beverley Minster, East Yorkshire, and the order of the service was from Common Worship (I'm feeling sick...). Vomit break!

Merriam Webster Online defines vomit: "An act or instance of disgorging the contents of the stomach through the mouth". What about the nose, then? Maybe the editor's nose was stuffed at the time he was testing the integrity of this definition. Merriam Webster Online also defines stuffed as: "to fill or block up (as nasal passages)". See - things are connected!

Evensong BBC Radio 3 - 31/8/05

This Wednesday's evensong was from St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, Ireland. Armagh is the ecclesiastical capital of Church of Ireland, a province of the Anglican communion. They have daily services, including Morning Prayer, Holy Communion and sung Compline (men's choir), Choral Evensong on Sundays with full choir.

See this floorplan of the cathedral with 360 degrees views several places around the building.

An all together good evensong with a contemporary canticle setting.