Pudding Sunday is coming up in FOUR days!!!

[pmcleanj]

Of course, if your involvement in the Church is all post-liturgical-reform, feel free to ignore this thread.

For those of us however who automatically think "Stir-up Sunday!" when they realize that Advent is only a week away (and who perhaps think that the whole liturgical innovation of "Christ the King Sunday" just muddies up the liturgical year with adiaphora):

Do you have your fruit and other ingredients ready for mixing?

Who all will get together to stir prayers for 2007 into your puddings and cakes?

Do you have a favourite fruitcake recipe or pudding recipe to share?

What in your opinion is the right length of time for steaming a pudding?

Inquiring minds want to know...

[TomUK]

I'm away on a youth pilgrimage so hopefully we'll get a couple of fruit puddings there!

I must admit however that i do adore the feast of Christ the King.

[pmcleanj]

I give the Children's sermon at Sunday worship, and last year on Stir-up Sunday I brought in the basin from the daughters' washstand (thouroughly washed, of course) and mixed up fruit cake with the children right there in front of the Table. We talked about how all the fruits of the past year's work would be enjoyed in the coming year; and how even bitter things (like orange peel) can turn out to flavour and sweeten the future. After worship, I set the cake out on a table in the narthex for all the adults to stir their prayers into the cake.

When I said I was going to do the same thing this year, people started saying "oh, I wasn't going to come next Sunday, and now I must change my plans -- that was so special!"

Also this year, I'm having my workteam over for potluck on the evening before, so I'll probably make another batch of cake and pudding and get them to stir wishes into that. I'm giving mini-fruitcakes for teacher-gifts this year, so I can use an extra batch of cake.

Have to go find some raisins, though. I like very pale blond ones, and they're not on the mainstream grocery shelves this year.

I might make up a third batch on Sunday evening, and get the out-of-town godparents and honorary aunts-and-uncles on the phone to stir their prayers in.

Hmmm.

We should do a virtual pudding on Sunday, here on STR, and everyone here can stir their prayers into that one.

[karen freeinchristman]

I have never heard of Stir-up Sunday or Pudding Sunday. Are you sure this is orthodox Anglican??? ;)

[pmcleanj]

I have never heard of Stir-up Sunday or Pudding Sunday. Are you sure this is orthodox Anglican??? ;)
Go open your prayer-book -- a pre-liturgical-reform-era one, to whit the 1662 BCP in your case -- to this coming Sunday's Collect, Epistle and Gospel.

You'll find that the proper name of this coming Sunday is "The Sunday Next Before Advent" and that the collect reads

"Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good work, may of thee be plenteously rewarded."

My daughters honourary grandparents, doughty Anglican Church Women in their sixties and seventies, all reminisce about *their* childhood rector bringing in his pudding-bowl to mix up Christmas puddings with the Sunday School on "Stir-up Sunday".

You can't get much more orthodox than the BCP and the ACW.

[pmcleanj]

Honest, I'm not making this up!:D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/news_and_events/events_stirupsunday.shtml:cool: