My favorite Christmas
memory is a tradition in our family.
My favorite Christmas
memory is a tradition that we do every year.
My favorite Christmas
memories are the traditions we have — some of which have carried over from my childhood — picking out a special new ornament every year, rushing down the stairs on Christmas morning to look in stockings, and sharing a leisurely Christmas breakfast before opening gifts.
My favorite Christmas
memory is a tradition that occurs each year.
My favourite
memory is a tradition in our house, and that is opening our stockings once we all pile onto our parents» bed.
Not exact matches
Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks
memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this
tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has
been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;
The Christian faith
is incarnational and historical and therefore involves times, places,
memories,
traditions and communities.
That way of living — shaped by
memory, bounded by
tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not
be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it
is about relational commitments.
I should
be disposed to conclude that while the general
tradition held that Christ «rose from the dead» (commonly understood to mean that he emerged from the tomb in which his body had
been laid) it preserved also a genuine
memory that on that Sunday morning his tomb
was found broken open and to all appearance empty.
In all probability, it
was the vividness of the
memory of that pre-Easter fellowship between the disciples and the earthly Jesus that provided the pattern for the development of that remarkable sense of fellowship between the early Christians and the risen Lord which
is such a feature of primitive Christianity — and which has had such an effect on the Jesus
tradition.
As Johann Baptist Metz and John Cobb have seen in correspondence, it
is the memoria of the Christ - event that plays a crucial role in the theological notion of revelation.10 In this view a certain historical
tradition of narration and reflection recalls the experience of a unique revealing event by
memory.
Paul himself
is about to pass into
memory, to become part of «
tradition.»
The
memory of it
was preserved by those who handed down the
tradition, and the evangelists recorded it, even though it
was perplexing and even embarrassing for them.
His treatment of
tradition, moreover, explicates the mechanisms by which communities of
memory and individual identities
are linked.
In considering churches as communities of
memory, therefore, we must ask how strong this
tradition will
be and what goods it will convey.
And what
is a human, but an odd mixture of body, soul, spirit, relationships, customs, language, culture,
memories, and
traditions?
The church
is also
being regarded as an important community of
memory because the other sources of a rich narrative
tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities —
are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media,
are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.
«While noting that the burial
tradition may
be simply a postulate «derived from the fact of Jesus» death or knowledge of Jewish purity concerns» rather than the
memory of an historical event, Luedemann's own preference, influenced in part by John 19:31 - 37 and Acts 13:20,
is that Jesus
was buried by Jews who
were not his followers.
Thus do great
traditions end, and a culture that in living
memory still read The Pilgrim's Progress and readily recognized quotations from Isaiah now watches Sex in the City and thinks Vanity Fair
is a magazine.
The heavy reliance on its own internal historical
memory may seem to imply that Christianity
is just another esoteric religion, accessible only to a group of insiders There
is, of course, a certain insider's perspective in any faith
tradition, but it would
be contrary to the inclusive character of Christianity to interpret our belonging to a Church community as though it
were a position of privilege that separates us from those not so gifted.
Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective
memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it
is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism
is to reach to the heart of the matter.
From the beginning the facts
were preserved in
memory and
tradition as elements in the Gospel which the Church proclaimed.
The fact
is, it simply makes sense, to anyone with the most elementary notion of how the Catholic
tradition alwaysworked before the distortions of recent decades (which please God, after another decade or two of the current mopping up operations, and the retirement of a few dozen more bishops, will soon
be a distant
memory).
Let us look at the part of the
tradition in which the process of change
was under least control because there
was little, if any, actual
memory by which to check it — the
tradition concerning Jesus» birth.
But whether Jesus» descent from David
was a genuine
memory or an inference from his messiahship, the two quite different genealogies which in Matthew and Luke support this belief can hardly have belonged to the most primitive
tradition.
Though Robert Bellah and his coauthors found that the «first language» of Americans
is the discourse of individualism, they also heard Americans across the country speaking communitarian «second languages,» languages of «
tradition and commitment in communities of
memory.»
In my own work on Cyprian, I emphasised that «it
is precisely within the kaleidoscope that the quest for
memory ought to
be located, «as part of a discursive formation, rather than as part of a continuous
tradition with roots stretching back to antiquity.»»
Similarly, the P
tradition is an attempt to mediate the old
memory in the despairing situation of Exile.
The creation of
tradition, the communal
memory of the church expressed in and through her cultural life,
is the continuous act of the church's worship of her Lord.
Form criticism underscores the role of oral
tradition by demonstrating that much of profoundest meaning in the Old Testament
is closely related to a continuing cultic activity which
was largely sustained by the mouth and
memory of successive generations of participants.
They
were primarily concerned to investigate the overlap between the genuine
memories of Jesus embedded in
tradition and the church's proclamation of him as Christ.
While great attention therefore needs to
be paid to the manipulation of power and the management of economic and political forces, we know that the primary mode by which a community reconstitutes itself
is by its interpretation, by its reflection on ancient
memory and
tradition, and by its recasting of that
memory and
tradition in new ways that
are resonant with the new situation.
Based initially on personal
memories of the historical figure of Jesus, the Jesus Christ worshipped in the Christian
tradition has
been shaped by the collective imagination and devotion of the Christian community.
Congregations that should
be communities of
memory are too often, Ellingson admits, congregations that have little understanding of their own theological
tradition.
It
is through our specially charged participation in the internal
memory of a
tradition that we
are placed in touch with the promissory interpretation of what might otherwise appear only as a series of inconsequential occurrences.
Past history
is for him something dead and done with, something which does not vitally affect us, something which exists only in the
memory, which
is dependent on
tradition and all its hazards, and which
is therefore subject to criticism and essentially relative.
They can't have all
been there the same year, but my
memory puts together on the table sweet potatoes and yams, butternut squash and the white potatoes mashed with milk and butter that — in one of those family
traditions by which chores get divvied up — we
were told only Uncle Hugo could make well.
The narrative
is shaped in a
tradition which especially reveres the name,
memory, and person of Moses.
(3) Patristic quotations
are not always absolutely reliable: (a) the Church Father may have
been quoting not from a text but from
memory; (b) he may have used more than one manuscript; (c) his own works may not have
been correctly transmitted; study of their manuscript
tradition is required.
One of my favorite things about this time of year in the blogging world
is learning about how other people celebrate the holidays including their
memories and food
traditions and this bountiful bowl looks like the essence of comfort and deliciousness.
For those, unfamiliar with this custom, this
is a
tradition practiced in many cultures, and for us, it
was the most anticipated Easter ritual, besides the egg dying, that brings so many fond
memories.
They
are the ones we look forward to baking and serving as they
are part of our family
traditions and invoke pleasant
memories.
It
's a way to carry on
traditions and to conjure up
memories.
To all the awesome moms out there — know that you
are loved & that all of the packed lunches, baked treats, kisses, band - aids, hugs, home cooked meals, napkin notes, good advice, laughs & handmade goodies
are appreciated and will live on forever in the warmest of
memories &
traditions.
I have fond
memories of baking holiday sugar cookies with my grandma when I
was young and it
's a
tradition I hope to carry on.
What
are some of your favorite holiday
traditions or
memories?
Apple Crisp always brings back great
memories of when I
was a kid, and reminds me of some of the family
traditions that I
am carrying on with my family.
So this fondness of chocolate filled easter
traditions and
memories is what inspired me to share this simple, allergy friendly, and easy to make festive treat with all you!
Such a sweet
memory that
is certainly a family
tradition.
But I have a feeling that what makes turkey so enticing
are the
memories and the
tradition of a Thanksgiving feast.