#420: By All Your Saints
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lutheranhymns"General stanza 2?" "Last?"
This is the extremely long song mentioned last time, which is actually only the first half of it--there's a bunch more verses included with the other tune. Basically you just pick and choose which saints you want to commemorate.
Do Lutherans even want to commemorate specific apostles on their saints' days?
In my experience not really, but some days you're really pushing for someone to include.
Who are some of the standouts?
Andrew: in some of the Gospels the first disciple to follow Jesus, so he gets celebrated at the beginning of the church year (at least sometimes, depending when Advent begins). He is also known as the brother of Peter, which makes Andrew "Ender" Wiggin's name in Ender's Game (he's the brother of Peter Wiggin) another triple-entedre.
Stephen: the "feast of Stephen" (from Good King Wenceslas etc.) is December 26, so that's why it's a kind of Christmastime song.
Matthias: the disciple chosen to replace Judas via dice roll. I assume he is the patron saint of random number generators.
This is the extremely long song mentioned last time, which is actually only the first half of it--there's a bunch more verses included with the other tune. Basically you just pick and choose which saints you want to commemorate.
Do Lutherans even want to commemorate specific apostles on their saints' days?
In my experience not really, but some days you're really pushing for someone to include.
Who are some of the standouts?
Andrew: in some of the Gospels the first disciple to follow Jesus, so he gets celebrated at the beginning of the church year (at least sometimes, depending when Advent begins). He is also known as the brother of Peter, which makes Andrew "Ender" Wiggin's name in Ender's Game (he's the brother of Peter Wiggin) another triple-entedre.
Stephen: the "feast of Stephen" (from Good King Wenceslas etc.) is December 26, so that's why it's a kind of Christmastime song.
Matthias: the disciple chosen to replace Judas via dice roll. I assume he is the patron saint of random number generators.
