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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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I had some friends over for brunch on Pentecost Sunday, and one of them complimented me on having chosen the correct color of shower curtain for the occasion (I have had a solid red shower curtain for some time now).
I doubt if very many Shipmates change the color of their shower curtain to match the liturgical season, although I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they do and I am sorely tempted to do so myself. I would, however, object to keeping a rose curtain to hang only on two days of the year.
How often do you change your shower curtain? Do you stick with a particular theme, pattern or color, or do you just pick up whatever happens to be on sale at the local 99 cent store?
Me? I change the curtain whenever I can't stand the old one any longer. I tend toward picking up whatever happens to be on sale at the local 99 cent store, but I do vary the pattern and color within my overall decor, which favors plain pastels.
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Graven Image
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I have glass doors so have no need of a curtain. I change the towels when they wear out or when I have company.( I put out the good towels for guests) They are pink to go with gray tile. The towels that is not the guests.
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Campbellite
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Originally posted by Sister Mary Precious:
They are pink to go with gray tile. The towels that is not the guests.
Grey, being a neutral, could go with almost any color, liturgically correct or no.
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Chorister
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My glass doors are completely see-thru. So I'm always in the pink.
My window (fabric) curtains, are however, in the colour of ordinary time.
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cattyish
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Wouldn't it be more useful to have liturgically correct cars? More people would see them. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Random Cathoholic
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Originally posted by cattyish:
Wouldn't it be more useful to have liturgically correct cars? More people would see them.
Both my car and my shower curtain, while different colours, are suitable for feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The car is also not out of place during Advent.
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mousethief
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Liturgically correct tattoos will become the new rage. Depending on the season, you wear clothing that reveals (and complements) one or another of your tattoos. This has the added benefit that you can reproduce not just the colour, but symbols appropriate to each particular season of the liturgical year.
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daisymay
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At the moment, we have pure white shower curtains - symbolising the purity of baptism, of course. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Random Cathoholic
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Originally posted by daisymay:
At the moment, we have pure white shower curtains - symbolising the purity of baptism, of course.
Of course, some people would say that sprinkling is not a valid form of baptism. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Campbellite
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Liturgically correct tattoos will become the new rage. Depending on the season, you wear clothing that reveals (and complements) one or another of your tattoos. This has the added benefit that you can reproduce not just the colour, but symbols appropriate to each particular season of the liturgical year.
I think you're just getting silly now.
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Spiffy
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My shower curtain must be Franciscan, it's one I begged off a friend when I moved.
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Lamb Chopped
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Wouldn't it be more useful to have liturgically correct cars?
I read this as liturgically correct CATS. The mind boggles.
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Firenze
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Is there a liturgical season whose colours and blue and green stripes with a tasteful edging of mould?
If so, I am right in there.
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MiceElf
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I'm with Firenze on this one... My shower curtain is turquoise with a frilled floral edging, which also denotes my spirituality in that it is defunct, stored in a heap at the back of the linen cupboard, but might come in useful one day so I hang on to it just in case.
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Angel Wrestler
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Originally posted by Campbellite:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Liturgically correct tattoos will become the new rage. Depending on the season, you wear clothing that reveals (and complements) one or another of your tattoos. This has the added benefit that you can reproduce not just the colour, but symbols appropriate to each particular season of the liturgical year.
I think you're just getting silly now.
Whereas liturgically correct shower curtains is serious.
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duchess
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I have shower curtains that I personally enjoy looking at. The liner I change more often...whenever it molds...I throw it out and put in a new one. My current one is a beach type one...sandals, sea shells...white with sort of southwest type colors to me.
I once went to a church that believed in falling down after jimmer-jammering/beating drums/talking in tongues on the rug. I noticed some people went around tenderly putting green cloths on each individual laying on the floor, slain in the Spirit.
I must confess even as I ran out of the church escaping...the color matching that particular season was a splendid touch. I said AMEN to that!
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leftfieldlover
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It's usually a tasteful purple until it becomes mouldy and then I buy a new one.
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ChaliceGirl
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Mine is white so it was "correct" during Easter season!
I have not changed it in about 10 years!
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daisymay
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Originally posted by Random Cathoholic:
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Originally posted by daisymay:
At the moment, we have pure white shower curtains - symbolising the purity of baptism, of course.
Of course, some people would say that sprinkling is not a valid form of baptism.
Do you just "sprinkle" yourself in a shower? Mine is fairly strong, with plenty of water, hot and cold.
And given that people used to be baptised at Easter (still done very early in the morning at our church) would pure (of course it gets washed whenever it gets slightly grubby) white be appropriate?
We've also got a flowery reddish/orangeish one - what would that symbolise? Fire? Very hot water?
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mousethief
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Originally posted by daisymay:
Do you just "sprinkle" yourself in a shower? Mine is fairly strong, with plenty of water, hot and cold.
Ah, but here you are being misled by the contemporary meanings of the word "sprinkle", which differ from the basic meaning of the Greek word σπρινκλεω. When Paul uses this word in 2 Terrance 2:22, clearly he is meaning not merely a light sprinkling like from a watering can, but the full deluge from a large waterfall (σπρινκλεω being the verb form of the word σπρινκλης, meaning "waterfall" or "place where water splashes down from a higher place with some force.")
Translating this into English as "sprinkle" indicates a number of things, but particularly that the KJV translators had no word in English to choose from that meant "falling down from a high place such as a waterfall does". It also, not uncoincidentally, has led to a light sprinkling becoming the de rigeur form of non-immersion baptism. Which as anybody who has come in from a hard day's work in the garden can attest, will hardly do much more than make rivulets in the dirt on one's face, let alone cleanse one from one's sins.
So it seems clear that it makes perfect sense to say you are "sprinkled" (in the Biblical sense) in the shower.
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Random Cathoholic
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Originally posted by daisymay:
We've also got a flowery reddish/orangeish one - what would that symbolise? Fire? Very hot water?
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) This caused me to choke on my GIN and tonic. I hope you're satisfied.
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The Rogue
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Despite being in there every day I do not know what colour our shower curtain is. Is this a liturgical comment?
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Campbellite
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No, it's not a liturgical comment. It means you need to clean your glasses.
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WatersOfBabylon
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I have a very dear friend who changes his tablecloths with the liturgical season. (Except, he refused to buy a black tablecloth, because he said it would be a disgrace to host a dinner party during Holy Week.)
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Campbellite:
No, it's not a liturgical comment. It means you need to clean your glasses.
Or shower with the lights on.
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Foolhearty
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by Campbellite:
No, it's not a liturgical comment. It means you need to clean your glasses.
Or shower with the lights on.
Campbellite, do you shower with your glasses on? If so, we'll have to start a trend for liturgically-correct frames.
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Badger Lady
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Originally posted by Foolhearty:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by Campbellite:
No, it's not a liturgical comment. It means you need to clean your glasses.
Or shower with the lights on.
Campbellite, do you shower with your glasses on? If so, we'll have to start a trend for liturgically-correct frames.
My shower has glass doors and the bathroom has a huge mirror on one wall. I'm sure someone can tell me the significance of that.
It does means I tend not to shower with ocular correction (I'm short sighted- tend to walk into lamp posts if I do not have my glasses or contact lenses). Seeing myself reflected in glory is usually more than I can take in the wee small hours.
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rosamundi
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mine is a pale lilac, faded almost to pink, with seahorses printed on it.
I am not sure what that signifies, apart from possibly needing a new one.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Zappa:
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Is there a liturgical season whose colours and blue and green stripes with a tasteful edging of mould?
If so, I am right in there.
Firenze, I fear you've been sharing my shower ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Well, you know the old slogan: Save Water Shower With A Friend.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by rosamundi:
mine is a pale lilac, faded almost to pink, with seahorses printed on it.
I am not sure what that signifies, apart from possibly needing a new one.
Do the seahorses look happy? If so, the curtain would be perfect for Gaudete and Laetare Sundays. And it does call to mind Psalm 104.
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rosamundi
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Do the seahorses look happy? If so, the curtain would be perfect for Gaudete and Laetare Sundays.
Insofar as mosaic seahorses can be said to look anything, they look a bit stunned.
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Foolhearty
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My shower curtain is transparent plastic. ISTM this makes it not only liturgically correct for every season, but also emblematic of The Empty Cross.
It's an enactment as well (though this has nothing to do with liturgy) of the comment that God is "the color of water" in the book of the same name.
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ErinBear
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My shower curtain has penguins all over it, and I am enthusiatically pleased with it. It's not going anywhere despite liturgical seasons! Although I expect it would come closest to fitting for Advent as it has a primarily blue cast to it, it stays all year long, and will be there as long as possible. Viva los penguinos! Bravo!
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PS And by the way, the penguins have company: penguin curtain hooks, penguin towels, penguin soap dispenser....they were Christmas gifts from friends. (Yes, I love penguins)
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Geneviève
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Like several others, I have glass shower doors. Now, towels I do have in most liturgical shades. I need purple and red. Got white, Marian blue, green, rose.
I like the tattoo idea best.
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Augustine the Aleut
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Originally posted by cattyish:
Wouldn't it be more useful to have liturgically correct cars? More people would see them.
Depends on the shipmate, no?
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Sir Kevin
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My shower curtain is dark green, as they were out of the black ones at the shop last time I replaced it. The priest was wearing green last night, so I guess I am liturgically correct now.
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Originally posted by Random Cathoholic:
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Originally posted by cattyish:
Wouldn't it be more useful to have liturgically correct cars? More people would see them.
Both my car and my shower curtain, while different colours, are suitable for feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The car is also not out of place during Advent.
So your car must be a Fiat? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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chukovsky
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We have a glass door but I suppose we could colour code our towels or something. In fact, I quite fancy that idea. Our bathroom is plain white and silver so anything would go with it. Anyone fancy telling Mr Spouse?
My cousin in his school years was not allowed to dye his hair for school so dyed it red once in the school holidays; as an altar boy this was noted but given their church, not in a particularly negative way, though the fact that it was the wrong liturgical colour was commented on. Next time he had a school holiday it was still Advent so he went for purple and this was definitely approved of.
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Jen.
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Originally posted by Geneviève:
Now, towels I do have in most liturgical shades. I need purple and red. Got white, Marian blue, green, rose.
Ooooh, I can do a swap with you, I have red and purple but lack all the others.
My shower curtain is also red and purple. like the bath mat, candles and even the toothbrushes are colour co-ordinated. Advent has always been my favorite season
I often have liturgically correct painted finger- (and toe-) nails.
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Campbellite
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Originally posted by Foolhearty:
Campbellite, do you shower with your glasses on? If so, we'll have to start a trend for liturgically-correct frames.
My frames are brushed nickel rimless (well, the bottom half, anyway), which should go with anything.
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GreatEastern
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I guess our shower curtain is nicely protestant in being undecorated - works in the same way as church decoration as it stops you being distracted from the main activity that you are there for!
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chukovsky
Ship's toddler
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Do you think they do stained glass shower screens?
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I almost hesitate to mention that our new lavatory seat has shells and starfish as a motif, and then I stopped hesitating.
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Earwig
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Originally posted by ErinBear:
My shower curtain has penguins all over it
Ah, this is obvously liturgically correct for Easter, when the Paschal Penguin delivers gifts all over the world.
(See the Paschal Penguin thread in All Saints if this makes no sense, Erin!)
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My shower has a fluffy, sparkly pink curtain, to go with the rest of our girly nightmare of a bathroom. However I think it's really too spangle-tastic to be considered liturgically correct by any stretch of the imagination (although I expect somebody will now prove me wrong and tell us how the rose vestments in some tat-fabulous church or other look exactly like that ... ).
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ErinBear
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Thank you Earwig! Hooray for the Paschal Penguin! (and yes, that did occur to me later!) ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Blessings,
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by chukovsky:
Do you think they do stained glass shower screens?
Intrigued by that idea, I did a quick Google search and came up with nothing that was remotely liturgical (it seemed like any pattern on a clear plastic curtain is called "stained glass") or churchy looking. However, if you are creative and have a couple of hours to devote to it, this do-it-yourself craft project might be fun. And it makes a nice hostess gift. They said so.
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