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The Mrs. at The Moose Report has done an excellent job of wrangling stray posts to put together the 51st issue of the Lutheran Carnival.  She writes:

Welcome to Lutheran Carnival LI!! I’m honored to pitch in and help my brother-in-law keep this carnival going, although I must admit that I have not regularly visited the carnivals until recently.

Being a church musician and holding a B.A. in Music from a Lutheran college, I would be remiss in my duties as host if I did not select as my little known Lutheran contributor a church musician. Every “in-tuned” Lutheran knows J.S. Bach, of course, and though at times I will select an organ work by the famous Baroque composer, my favorite organ piece is by another, lesser known Baroque composer.

Meet Dieterich Buxtehude.

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From Aardvark Alley… Where the “L” is the Carnival? The Lutheran Carnival of Blogs turns fifty - fifty issues strong, that is. Please head over to the main blog to see what Random Dan put together. The next scheduled host is the Moose Report. After that, Dan & Elle and Dan need volunteers!

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Dan at Necessary Roughness has posted Lutheran Carnival XLI*. Dan has a way of tying together life and sports to which my family and I can relate. Dan creatively groups the posts by topic:

Lutheran Carnival XLI is divided into the three phases of game play in American football: Offense, Defense, and Special Teams. Offense will carry posts that address thinking outside the Christian faith. Defense will carry those posts that defend the faith. Special Teams are posts either by teams or require special treatment.

In Lutheran Carnival tradition, Dan introduces us to another Lutheran we should all know, Phillip Nicolai…

Philipp was a second-generation pastor in Germany, born in 1556 and died in 1608. He preached during a time when both Roman Catholics and Calvinists were making life difficult to be a Lutheran: he had to flee several times or preach in house meetings. In 1601 he was elected chief pastor of Saint Katherine’s in Hamburg, finishing out his life in 1608 with a violent fever. Nicolai is best remembered for two of my favorite hymns/chorales: “Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying” (LSB 516, TLH 609) and “O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright” (LSB 395, TLH 343). It seems the Morning Star hymn has been translated a couple of times. The hymn’s tune, Wir Schön Leuchtet, has been appropriated for five hymns in LSB, a testimony to its versatility and popularity. It’s beautiful stuff; I’ll be happy to play it for the locals.

Phillip Nicolai

Be sure to read the many good posts of this edition of the esteemed Lutheran Carnival! Great job, Dan!

* If you’re like me and realize that your knowledge of Roman numerals ended a few carnivals back, Nova Roma gives a short explanation of each symbol If you’re rushed, you can use their handy converter.

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Lutheran Carnival XXXVI is now up at The Markel Family. Thank you to them for hosting it, and thank you to all who contibuted. The next carnival will be hosted by What Did Jesus Do. Posts are due by November 17th, with the Carnival up on November 19th. Hosts are still needed for December. If you are willing, email Random Dan at daniel Dot sellers At gmail Dot com.

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September

a poem by Longfellow, thanks to Norman Teigen

I bear the Scales, where hang in equipoise

The night and day; and when unto my lips

I put my trumpet, with its stress and noise

Fly the white clouds like tattered sails of ships;

The tree-top lash the air with sounding whips;

Southward the clamorous sea-fowl wing their flight;

The hedges are all red with haws and hips.

The Hunter’s Moon reigns empress of the night.

September has always been my favorite month. It is the month of my birthday, which mostly likely caused me to rejoice when I was younger. Nowadays, I cringe at the actual number of my birthdays, but I still love September. Why? Falling leaves, the start of school, cool nights and shortening days, the first chance to put on a sweater since spring, chrysanthemums, my big red sugar maple tree, squirrels busily burying their nuts. What isn’t there to like about September? Of course, I haven’t asked any 9/11 survivors if they love September. Nor my dear sister-in-law who just lost her mother on 9/11, just nine days after her own birthday. Nor the family who just lost their ten year old daughter in the Rogers tornado. But for now, I love September. And I love blogs!

To read the 33rd issue of the Lutheran Carnival, please click on over to my other blog, Be Strong in the Grace.

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As a birthday present to myself, I’m hosting the 33rd bi-weekly Lutheran Carnival. See the home site for details on how to submit. I could really use the submissions this weekend, but they are officially due by 11:59pm Friday, September 22. Work has been busy lately and my teens lives keep me from the computer more than I would like. Feel free to nominate people, also.

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It’s harvest time and the Aardvark has a crop to show off! He regularly surfs the blogosphere for posts worthy of mention. I was including in this harvest for my post at Be Strong in the Grace, The Masks God Wears. Be sure to check out his collection of posts!

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My temporary American Idol insanity too often keeps me from reading blogs of substance, like Dr. Veith’s Cranach blog. On Monday of this week, Dr. Veith wrote:

“I hope you had a happy Quasimodogeniti yesterday. I couldn’t find any Quasimodogeniti cards at the Hallmark store, nor did I do any Quasimodogeniti shopping. Sorry–I just love that word, which refers to the first Sunday after Easter. It’s not named after the Hunchback of Notre Dame; rather, that unfortunate fellow was named after the day. Nor is it a holiday, as such. The word comes from the first words in the Introit that begins the service in the classic liturgy for that day. In Latin, they are “Quasi modo geniti,” which in English comes to “Like new born.” The entire sentence is “Like newborn babes desire the pure milk of the Word.” Like much of the liturgy, it’s words from the Bible, in this case 1 Peter 2:2. That’s good advice for the whole year. We need to turn this into a bona fide holiday. I suppose we could observe Quasimodogeniti by drinking milk. We could get the Wisconsin Dairy Council to help promote it. But for the true meaning of the day, we should also do some serious Bible reading.” ~Dr. Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

Consider this an appropriate introduction to the most recent edition of the Lutheran Carnival, which I have also neglected during the American Idol season. There are some new faces in this 22nd edition of the carnival and a nice tie-in to Quasimodogeniti. Pastor Snyder at Ask the Pastor is the host and he opens the carnival with this:

Quasimodogeniti, the Second Sunday of Easter’s “week of weeks” brings the twenty-second installment of the Lutheran Carnival to light. Pastor David Petersen provides a quick summary of “Hunchback Sunday” at CyberStones (and don’t forget to read the comment cum literary critique).

The antiphon of today’s introit comes from 1 Peter 2:2-3. “Like newborn babes,” saith the King James Version, upon which many of us were nourished in our youth — that certainly provides a carnival theme with promise. Yet what if some readers aren’t thrilled with babies? Or, if they’ve been drinking the “pure spiritual milk,” perhaps they’re ready for some meat (see Hebrews 5:12-14) — or not (see 1 Corinthians 3:1-3).

Well, I then thought, since this is Carnival-22, how about a Joseph Heller theme, reminiscent of his classic novel Catch-22? I gave it some thought, but decided to pass. Certainly Heller understood paradox and irony, two major literary types used in Holy Scripture. However, Catch-22 never comes to a resolution. Certainly our ongoing celebration of Easter provides ample reminder that Christ provided complete resolution of our alienation from God in His suffering, death, and glorious resurrection.

Finally, I decided to fall back on the Lutheran Carnival’s regular feature, the introduction to relatively unknown Lutherans. Therefore, I’d like to take a moment to tell you about a child born upon the Ides of March in the Year of Our Lord 1992. Read on…

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storm trooper, noun

1. A member of the Nazi militia noted for brutality and violence.
2. One who resembles or behaves like a member of the Nazi militia.
3. A member of a force of shock troops.

[From storm troops, translation of German Sturmtruppen : Sturm(abteilung), Storm (Division) + Truppen, troops.]

Example: I’ve visited one online Lutheran Carnival, but the midway is pretty scary for anyone who doesn’t belong to the Sturmtruppe of Lutheranism’s rightest wing.

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