[Ebbc-Talk] Fwd: 4th Annual Blessing of the Bicycles in Colorado
Jon Spangler <[email protected]>
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Here's a blog post by the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber of A House for All Sinners and Saints in Colorado. This was their fourth annual service. Check out the thurible (incense pot) and how they sprinkled the bikes and people with holy water .... Jon PS--This is NOT an attempt to convert anyone. promise... :-) Begin forwarded message: > From: Nadia Bolz-Weber <[email protected]> > Date: June 29, 2012 11:15:27 PM PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Blog Nadia Bolz-Weber > > Blog Nadia Bolz-Weber > > A Blessing of the Bicycles > Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:40 PM PDT > Urban biking is not without peril. Many of my parishioners rely exclusively on human-powered transportation and do so while competing for road space with motorized vehicles. As a way of acknowledging the inherent goodness of God’s gifts of life and health and the humble but elegant bicycle we decided to conduct a Blessing of the [...] > You are subscribed to email updates from Nadia Bolz-Weber > To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google > Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 Jon Spangler Writer/editor Linda Hudson Writing TEL 510-864-2144 CEL 510-846-5356 [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/jonmspangler www.twitter.com/jonmspangler "She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life." —Frances E. Willard, in A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle (1895) _______________________________________________ Ebbc-Talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ebbc.org/listinfo.cgi/ebbc-talk-ebbc.org