{"id":1820,"date":"2016-08-24T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/elflandletters\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:26:59","slug":"folk-liturgy-st-bartholomews-bun-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/elflandletters\/2016\/08\/24\/folk-liturgy-st-bartholomews-bun-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk Liturgy: St. Bartholomew&#8217;s Bun Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><h1 style=\"text-align: right;\">David Russell Mosley<\/h1>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1821\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1821\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/709\/2016\/08\/Guthlac-Bartholemew.png\" alt=\"Description English: St Guthlac is presented with a whip by St Bartholomew as he is tormented by demons, illustration from The Guthlac Roll Date\t1210 Source\tBritish Library [1] Author\tUnknown Source: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)\" width=\"666\" height=\"599\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description<br>English: St Guthlac is presented with a whip by St Bartholomew as he is tormented by demons, illustration from The Guthlac Roll<br>Date 1210<br>Source British Library [1]<br>Author Unknown<br>Source: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Ordinary Time<br>\nSt. Bartholomew\u2019s Day<br>\nThe Edge of Elfland<br>\nHudson, New Hampshire<\/p>\n<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Today I was made aware of a fascinating tradition that goes on in Sandwich in England. There is an old chapel there dedicated to St. Bartholomew (you know, the apostle). There is an old tradition there\u2013\u2013how old I don\u2019t know\u2013\u2013that on St. Bartholomew\u2019s day, after a service held in the chapel, and a few other rituals, the children of the village run a race, one lap around the chapel. After which each is given a currant bun (the adults are give a biscuit, read cookie, stamped with the hospitals seal).<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I wrote about the old harvest and planting festivals I feel we should be reviving in the church. Traditions like this, which belong far more to a kind of folk liturgy are, need also to be not only revived, but also created. Local churches need to find ways that not only connect them to older traditions, but to create new traditions that take into account the actual places in which they exist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/08\/some-traditions-of-st-bartholomews-day.html?m=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">You can read more about the Bartlemas Bun Run from 2013 over at A Clerk in Oxford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br>\nDavid<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Bartholomew\u2019s Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Readers, Today I was made aware of a fascinating tradition that goes on in Sandwich in England. There is an old chapel there dedicated to St. Bartholomew (you know, the apostle). 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