"Stir Up" Sunday Chocolate Pudding (along with Up and Coming)
December 10 - Council Meeting King of Kings Lutheran Church : December 24 at 4:00pm - Candlelight service December 25 - Christmas Day - 9:00am with Holy Communion Riverbend Lutheran Church December 24 - 6:00pm and 8:00pm December 25 - 11:00am with Holy Communion “Stir-up” Sunday Chocolate Pudding "Stir up" Sunday Chocolate Pudding History The Last Sunday of the Church Year has historically been known in the Western Church as “Stir-up Sunday,” a name that comes from a long tradition of associating the day with the start of Advent preparations and excitement for the season to come. This term specifically hails from the opening words of the collect for the day found in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Like many of the Sundays of the Church year—such as the ones that fall in Advent, Gesimatide, and Lent—a Latin incipit, or the first words of a particular prayer, has over time become the name associated with the day. In this case it is Excita, or “stir up,” which...