Letters from 2
to 8 June 2008
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Star? What
star?
Interesting
article on symbols: I used to work on registering trade marks
and so take a close interest in logos (as well as 'logos'). But
I've never seen a five-pointed star on lifts (elevators) in Europe.
Having
just come back from my first visit to the US, I saw it for the
first time there, but never in any country I've visited on this
side of the Atlantic. And we call the lowest floor the ground
floor, not the first!
Richard
Mulcahy
Newport, WALES
2 June 2008
Roses for
remembrance
I enjoy
looking in every week both to see your weekly letter and also
to view the new this week. You provide a superb overview of Anglican
life in the world. I would not be without it.
I was particularly
interested in last week's reference in
your letter to flowers
on the Altar and the fact that you have not experienced 'roses
as Altar flowers'. Nor had I throughout my active ministry. Now,
in retirement, I have come to worship in a parish where at least
two individuals always give roses for their memorials. One person
gives them on the birthday of her husband, while the other has
them whenever flowers are the gift.
God Bless
and keep up the good work.
Canon Fred
Hall
The Church of St. James the Apostle, Brampton
Brampton, Ontario, CANADA
fgbahall@pathcom.com
5 June 2008
Can you
help find missing brothers?
I was connected
with the Brotherhood of St Barnabas at Ravenshoe, Queensland
in the 1970's and knew the Reverend Peter Mayhew quite well. I am
writing something on the Brotherhood in general and wanted to know
what changes have taken place and whether Brothers still travel in
the outback as they used to.
I've been trawling the web but can't
find the information I want; could anyone point me in the right direction?
John Wade
(Ed. note: If you can assist Mr Wade, please email editors@anglicansonline.org
and we'll pass on the information to him.)
Proof of
life
Your article
on symbols states that every lift in the Western world has a star
for the button to take one to the floor which allows one to exit
the building. Sorry but I have never seen this symbol. Even in
the worst twelve-and-a-half minutes of my life when I was stuck
in a lift and I examined each button twice over, I did not see
anything remotely astral.
But your
remark about the flowers as messages of new hope and life is
spot on! For me, the occasional insomniac, the start of the new day
is the sign of new hope and life. And the miracle is that it happens
EVERY day. We are given a new chance to love G–D and our
neighbours all over again. (L–d knows we are such twits
that we need to start again.) Even on these freezing winter mornings,
complete with fog, the new day is, of course, one of 365 Easter
mornings (366
in a Leap Year). El Ham Du Lillah / Boruch Hashem / Thanks to
G–D !
To quote
Sherlock Holmes: We have much to hope from the flowers. (NAVA).
Steve Duke
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
5 June 2008
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