#st clement

[scowling24-7]

The beach.

[brother-hermes]

Christianity is such a mongrelized religion. Influences poured into the region of Yeshuas origin from all over. The Silk Road tied the east to the west effectively creating middle eastern hubs of culture and philosophical ideas. Since the region was already saturated with Kemetic and Hebraic thought it’s no wonder a Hellenized Alexandria ended up giving us such a brilliant background a few centuries later. Click the link to take a deep dive into mystic Christian history.

[maypoleman1]

23rd November

St Clement’s Day

Clement I Bishop of Rome (c1000 AD). Source: Wikipedia

Today is St Clement’s Day. Clement was one of the early bishops of Rome, held by the Roman Catholic Church to be the fourth Pope. He lived in the first century at a time when Christianity, whereas not yet attracting the wholesale persecution of future years, was being considered a subversive nuisance by the Roman Empire. Clement got the wrong side of the authorities during the reign of the Emperor Trajan and was allegedly executed by being tied to an anchor and thrown overboard to drown, which he did. This made him the patron saint of sailors and blacksmiths.

In former days Clementing parades took place in which mock anvils and axes were carried with Old Clem, a blacksmith in effigy, being the centrepiece. The parades would usually conclude with a feast, a bonfire and the ritual Firing the Anvil, in which a real anvil had a hole made in its side which was then filled with gunpowder and lit. This highly dangerous stunt would result in a loud explosion and the anvil being lifted high in the air, to the watching crowd’s delight unless the now lethal piece of ironmongery happened to land on someone. Celebration of St Clement’s Day was once very widespread but by the end of the nineteenth century it had completely died out, its traditions being subsumed into Bonfire Night.

[forgeatsweetwater]

Wishing everyone, near and far, a very merry St. Clement's* Day!

(yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Thanksgiving in the US too, and Wolfenoot...but it's All About Clem!)

*one of the Patron Saints of blacksmiths and metalworkers

[empirearchives]

Napoleon with a puppy

🥺

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Men who offer laudatory speeches to the rich ... are insidious because, although mere abundance is by itself quite enough to puff up the souls of its possessors, and to corrupt them, and to turn them aside from the way by which salvation can be reached, these men bring fresh delusion to the minds of the rich by exciting them with the pleasures that come from their immoderate praises, and by rendering them contemptuous of absolutely everything in the world except the wealth which is the cause of their being admired. In the words of the proverb, they carry fire to fire, when they shower pride upon pride, and heap on wealth, heavy by its own nature, the heavier burden of arrogance.

Οἱ μὲν τοὺς ἐγκωμιαστικοὺς λόγους τοῖς πλουσίοις δωροφοροῦντες ... ἀσεβεῖς μέν, ὅτι παρέντες αἰνεῖν καὶ δοξάζειν τὸν μόνον τέλειον καὶ ἀγαθὸν θεόν, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ δι᾿ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ εἰς ὃν τὰ πάντα, περιάπτουσι τούτου τὸ γέρας ἀνθρώποις ἐν ἀσώτῳ καὶ βορβορώδει βίῳ κυλινδουμένοις καὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον ὑποκειμένοις τῇ κρίσει τοῦ θεοῦ.

—St Clement of Alexandria (Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), The Rich Man's Salvation (c 190 CE)

[Robert Scott Horton]

[rabbitcruiser]

Houston, BC (No. 6)

Houston is known as the world’s Steelhead capital of the world, and is proud to be the home to Canada’s largest fl y rod which is located in our award-winning Steelhead Park located on Highway 16. It is also home to the Houston’s Visitor Centre. The park is a perfect setting for a leisurely stroll or picnic and includes the lovely Steelhead fountain and our majestic, giant “Phantom Grizzly bear” weighing 975 pounds (visible 24/7 at the visitor centre), and our local museum’s “Walk through History”.

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[soranatus]

Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Jermaine Clement, Maya Erskine and Amandla Stenberg have been cast in LAIKA’s next film ‘WILDWOOD’.

Wildwood is a 2023 upcoming film by Lionsgate Films and Laika Animation. It will be released on April 16, 2023.

Wildwood is a 2011 children's fantasy novel written by Colin Meloy and illustrated by Carson Ellis, his wife. Meloy is the lead singer and songwriter for the folk-rock band The Decemberists. Ellis created album cover art for her husband’s band and provided more than 80 illustrations for Wildwood. Her artwork employs a dark but whimsical tone and has been compared to Edward Gorey.

The plot involves a young girl’s attempts to save her baby brother Mac after a murder of crows airlifts him into the mysterious Impassable Wilderness. The heroine named Prue is joined by her classmate, Curtis. As the two navigate the realm of the Wood, they encounter talking animals, mystics who speak to plants, and an evil witch who wants to kill Mac to further her scheme to conquer the Wood. They get caught up in an epic struggle, and learn of their connection to a magical parallel world while confronting adult authorities who are often cowardly or dishonest. The natural beauty and local color of Portland, Oregon features prominently in the book.

[kdo-three]

Carl Orff ~ ”Carmina Burana” - No. 25 ~ Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi O Fortuna (Reprise) (1975) Composer: Carl Orff | Composed in 1935 and 1936

Cantata | Classical Music | Modern Classical Music

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

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Personnel: Conductor: Andre Previn The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus St. Clement Danes Grammer School Boys’ Choir Vocals: Sheila Armstrong Gerald English Thomas Allen

Produced by Christopher Bishop

Recorded: @ Kingsway Hall in London, England UK November 25, 1974 - November 27, 1974

Released: in 1975

EMI Electrola Die Stimme seines Herrn (German imprint of “His Master’s Voice”)

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Christina Bothwell, "Spirit Animal", 2014, Cast glass, ceramic, oil paint

Christina Bothwell and Robert Bender "Cloud Pillow", 2016, Cast glass, ceramic, oil paint

Karen LaMonte, "Etude 11", Cast glass

Leah Wingfield and Steve Clements, "Low Winter Sun, Shadow III", 2016, Cast glass

K. William LeQuier, "Synergy 2", 2017, Cut and sandblasted glass

Above are some of the amazing glass works from a 2021 visit to Imagine Museum in St. Pete, Florida. For more work by artists Christina Bothwell, Robert Bender, Karen LaMonte, Leah Wingfield, Steve Clements, and K. William LeQuier, head to the links in this post.

This weekend (9/30 and 10/1) you can visit the museum for $5 (normally $15).

[haxanbroker]

St Clements Court, London, December 2017.

[holidays-events]

A Visit From St Nicholas 🎅 By Clement Clark Moore

A Visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. It has had a massive effect on the history of Christmas gift-giving. Before the poem gained wide popularity, American ideas had varied considerably about Saint Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors. A Visit from St. Nicholas eventually was set to music and has been recorded by many artists.

Plot On the night of Christmas Eve, a family is settling down to sleep when the father is awakened by noises on their lawn. Looking out the window, he sees Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof, Santa gets down the chimney. He carries a sack of toys, and the father watches his visitor deliver presents and fill the stockings  hanging by the fireplace, and laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before Santa bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Santa calls out "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night."

Legacy and Honors

In 1911, the Church of the Intercession in Manhattan started a service on the Sunday before Christmas that included a reading of the poem followed by a procession to Moore's tomb at Trinity Church Cemetery on the Sunday before Christmas. This continues until this day.

Clement Clarke Moore Park, located at 10th Avenue and 22nd Street in Chelsea, is named after Moore.

A playground opened in the park November 22, 1968, and was named for Moore by local law the following year. In 1995 it was fully renovated, and new trees were added. Local residents gather annually there on the last Sunday of Advent for a reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas".

PS13 in Elmhurst, Queens is named after Clement C. Moore.

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas."

[rangersfc-1872]

2023/24 SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP MATCH DAY 26

St Johnstone 0-3 Rangers 18th February 2024 McDiarmid Park

Diomande (37'), Tavernier (79' pen, 87' pen)

[wastehound-voof]

Hey. The reindeer is Donder, not Donner.

(Just read Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit From St. Nicholas” for the first time.)

[empirearchives]

This is so wild