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Mortgage Burning - Feast of Pentecost, 2005


Photos by Louise Lystig Fritchie

Mount Olive recently celebrated the final payment on property improvements completed in 1995, making our church building fully handicapped accessible.

At the Feast of Pentecost, 2005, following the benediction, congregational treasurer John Crippen ceremoniously burned a copy of the building expansion mortgage papers by lighting them in the flame of the pascal candle, and allowing them to burn in the incense bowl.

 

The people responded with a prayer of thanksgiving.

 

The fine print was still visible in the ashes
as the incense bowl rested in the sacristy.