Today is a Moravian Church in Labrador holiday, it is to celebrate the baptism of the first Inuit shaman. There are events and church services planed all day long.
Some institutions are closed, some not, individuals involved with the church will have the day off work. Sorry about the generalities, I'm not big into theology. Any one up Ottawa way or foraging in brooks feel free to enlighten the populace.
In the same vain, some one up there is sending down some much needed snow, a nice little fall early morning, hope the wind does not pick up, though looking out the window those hopes may not come to fruition.
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Who can resist an invitation like that?
Kingminguse was the “First Fruits” harvested by the Moravian Mission in Labrador. He was baptized February 17, 1773 [?] and named Petrus. Kingminguse was a powerful shaman (angakok), and his conversion was an important act of transformation, word of which spread quickly through Inuit camps. Peter was no less powerful as a convert than he had been as an angakok. He became a well known as a deliverer of testimony and preaching at the Nain mission station, and his performances inspired some other Inuit to convert, notably, the Inuit traveller Mikok, who had been captured and taken to England several years earlier. Garth Taylor (1984) says Mikok was impressed by a testimony Peter gave of how conversion had affected his success: “…he had gone out sealing alone in his kayak and failed to catch anything. Then, on his way home he prayed to Jesus and, soon after, caught a seal. The same thing happened two days in a row.” (Taylor 1984: 22) Like many of the early converts, Kingminguse’s conversion didn’t really “take” and he fell away from the Mission’s influence, but the Church day named after him remains.
I knews you would bite, ottawa must be engrossed in all things dannystan.
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