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I. Downton Abbey
I. Downton Abbey
Are there any Downton Abbey fans here?
A. I confess that I never watched this series during its time on PBS.
The whole focus on the “royals” of England and the continuing inequities of social class distinctions just leave me cold.
Are there any Downton Abbey fans here?
A. I confess that I never watched this series during its time on PBS.
The whole focus on the “aristocracy” of Great Britain and the continuing inequities of social class distinctions just leave me cold.
A. I confess that I never watched this series during its time on PBS.
The whole focus on the “aristocracy” of Great Britain and the continuing inequities of social class distinctions just leave me cold.
B. After a recent conversation with some female clergy friends about the upcoming movie based on the series, I decided to check out a video of the first season from the library.
Another confession: I really enjoyed watching the episodes.
Even my husband, who was more skeptical about the program than I, became caught up in the drama of life in and the relationships among the characters.
C. The contrast of attitudes between the elite family members and those who served them.
The sense of worth defined by one’s station in life.
The desire to rise above the social status into which one was born.
The differing ideas about humility versus entitlement.
The jockeying for better places at the table, whether in the servants’ dining area or the grand dining room of the elite.
Downton Abbey is a depiction of life among the landed gentry of Victorian England and yet the behavior and attitudes regarding social class and self worth are found throughout every era of human civilization.
What would Jesus have to say about life at
II.
The Wedding Reception
A Early in my parish ministry, I met with a bride who was agonizing over the seating arrangements for her wedding reception and dinner.
She was losing sleep over where to seat members of her family that didn’t get along with one another.
She worried about whether friends or family members would view their table assignments as favorable or unfavorable.
She was worried that guests would feel slighted by being placed farther from the table of the wedding party.
B. After a recent conversation with some female clergy friends about the upcoming movie based on the series, I decided to check out a video of the first season from the library.
Another confession: I really enjoyed watching the episodes.
Even my husband, who was more skeptical about the program than I, became caught up in the drama of life in the great house and the relationships among the characters.
I checked out the second season this past week.
B. After a recent conversation with some female clergy friends about the upcoming movie based on the series, I decided to check out a video of the first season from the library.
Another confession: I really enjoyed watching the episodes.
Even my husband, who was more skeptical about the program than I, became caught up in the drama of life in the great house and the relationships among the characters.
I checked out the second season this past week.
The need for
C. The strict social structure and etiquette of the period may seem foreign to many 21st Century Americans.
The contrast of attitudes between the elite family members and those who served them.
The sense of worth defined by one’s station in life.
The desire to rise above the social status into which one was born.
The differing ideas about humility versus entitlement.
The jockeying for better places at the table, whether in the servants’ dining area or the grand dining room of the elite.
C. The strict social structure and etiquette of the period may seem foreign to many 21st Century Americans.
The contrast of attitudes between the elite family members and those who served them.
The sense of worth defined by one’s station in life.
The desire to rise above the social status into which one was born.
The differing ideas about humility versus entitlement.
The jockeying for better places at the table, whether in the servants’ dining area or the grand dining room of the elite.
Downton Abbey is a depiction of life among the landed gentry of early 20th Century England, and yet the behavior and attitudes regarding social class and self-worth are found throughout every era of human civilization.
Downton Abbey is a depiction of life among the landed gentry of early 20th Century England, and yet the behavior and attitudes regarding social class and self-worth are found throughout every era of human civilization.
II.
Family Holiday Dinners
II.
Family Holiday Dinners
A. When you get together for a family dinner, perhaps at a holiday time, are there particular places that members of the family sit?
If so, is the arrangement by age or perhaps father and mother take up each end of the table and other family members fill in the side seats?
A. When you get together for a family dinner, perhaps at a holiday time, are there particular places that members of the family sit?
If so, is the arrangement by age or perhaps father and mother take up each end of the table and other family members fill in the side seats?
B. I don’t have a very big family, but at holidays my mom’s big dining room table was very full.
Some years, when my cousins were all there with their parents, the kids had to sit at a card tables in another room.
As the oldest of the cousins, I hated this!
I wanted to be with the grownups and hear their conversation.
Being at the “kids’ table” was like being banished from all the fun.
B. I don’t have a very big family, but at holidays my mom’s big dining room table was very full.
Some years, when my cousins were all there with their parents, the kids had to sit at a card tables in another room.
As the oldest of the cousins, I hated this!
I wanted to be with the grownups and hear their conversation.
Being at the “kids’ table” was like being banished from all the fun.
C. As we all got a little older, my mom decided (at my insistence) that she would be able to work out a way to include everyone at the table.
Her idea was to seat my youngest cousin and me on the wooden radiator cover at one end.
Not only did we have the warmest spot in the room, but also, Dan and I have wonderful memories of sitting together each holiday at my mom’s house.
C. As we all got a little older, my mom decided (at my insistence) that she would be able to work out a way to include everyone at the table.
Her idea was to seat my youngest cousin and me on the wooden radiator cover at one end.
Not only did we have the warmest spot in the room, but also, Dan and I have wonderful memories of sitting together each holiday at my mom’s house.
III Kingdom Etiquette and Places at the Table
III Kingdom Etiquette and Places at the Table
A. In the Gospel lesson, Jesus is attending a dinner party in the home of “a prominent Pharisee.”
Apparently, what he says and does are being watched by those who would like to find fault with his behavior.
Where will he sit?
Will he use appropriate manners?
Why was he invited in the first place?
After all, he’s merely a carpenter’s son from Nazareth- a nobody!
A. In the Gospel lesson, Jesus is attending a dinner party in the home of “a prominent Pharisee.”
Apparently, what he says and does are being watched by those who would like to find fault with his behavior.
Where will he sit?
Will he use appropriate manners?
Why was he invited in the first place?
After all, he’s merely a carpenter’s son from Nazareth- a nobody!
B. As Jesus tends to do, he turns the tables (pardon the pun) on those who would be judges of his social behavior.
He is watching their behavior, also, and what he sees provides the opportunity to teach those who are present about kingdom etiquette.
Of course, this teaching is in the form of parables.
First, he uses the image of a wedding feast.
B. As Jesus tends to do, he turns the tables (pardon the pun) on those who would be judges of his social behavior.
He is watching their behavior, also, and what he sees provides the opportunity to teach those who are present about kingdom etiquette.
Of course, this teaching is in the form of parables.
He uses the image of a wedding feast.
C. Now I realize that in modern wedding reception venues, seating has already been arranged, and seating cards with table numbers are usually available for the guests as they enter the reception hall.
This is part of modern-day wedding reception and large dinner party etiquette, for logistical reasons.
C. In Jesus’ day, wedding banquets were usually held outside the bride’s home.
There were probably only a few seats- reserved for the bride, groom, parents and prominent people in the community.
The rest of the guests would eat and drink while standing.
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