Meme: First Initial

I saw this on Brian's blog Christus Vincit so I figured I'd copy it.

Rules: Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real... nothing made up! You cannot use any word or answer twice.

1. What is your name: Jeff
2. A four letter word: jazz
3. A boy's name: James
4. A girl's name: Jessica
5. An occupation: Jailor
6. A color: jade
7. Something you wear: jumpers (children's coveralls)
   
8. A food: jelly
   
9. Something found in the bathroom: Jergens (health and beauty skin care products)
   
10. A place: Jeffersonville, Indiana
    
11. A reason for being late: jam (traffic...)
    
12. Something you shout: Jump!
13. A movie title: Jaws
14. Something you drink: juice
15. A musical group: Jars of Clay
    
16. An animal: jackrabbit
17. A street name: Jackson Avenue
    
18. A type of car: Jeep (or a more general "type": jalopy)
    

Meme: 24 Hours with a Celebrity

I've been tagged by Anne: If you could spend 24 hours with a celebrity:

1. Who would s/he be?
2. Where would you expect him/her to bring you?
3. Where would you bring him/her?
4. What would you like to do with him/her?
5. What’s the one thing you’d been always wanting to ask the celebrity?
6. If s/he didn’t treat you well, would s/he be your favorite celebrity?
7. What would you give to him/her as a gift before saying goodbye so s/he’d remember you?
8. Tag 3 people.

Last things first: I'll tag Tim, Mark, and Gretchen, if they're game.

1. I'd like to spend 24 hours with Stephen Colbert.
2. I'd expect a tour of his studio at the Colbert Report (as well as the Daily Show).
   
3. I'd bring him to the ReBar in Brooklyn for some good drinks.
   
4. I'd like to interview/be interviewed by him. Or bring him to Mass at Mater Ecclesiae.
5. How did you develop your quick wit and improvisational skills?
6. Well, he's not my favorite celebrity now, so I don't think being treated poorly would make him my favorite all of the suddenly.
7. Maybe one of my blog-business cards. Or perhaps a CD of Gregorian Chant.
   

Meme: Sentences 6-8 of page 123 of the nearest book

Adoro te devote tagged me, because I pray for priests. (I always knew praying for priests would be a burden!)

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Here is my contribution. The book is (surprise, surprise) the current English translation of the Roman Missal (a.k.a. the Sacramentary). Page 123 has the prayers over the palm branches, from Sunday of Holy Week (Passion or Palm Sunday) for the "First Form: The Procession". By my estimation, sentences 6 through 8 are:

Lord,
increase the faith of your people
and listen to our prayers.
Today we honor Christ our triumphant King
by carrying these branches.
May we honor you ever day
by living always in him,
for he is Lord for ever and ever.

Yes, it's the alternative prayer over the palm branches. If I may editorialize for a moment before feebly tagging five people... compare that prayer over the palms with the first option:

Almighty God,
we pray you
bless + these branches
and make them holy.
Today we joyfully acclaim Jesus our Messiah and King.
May we reach one day the happiness of the new and everlasting Jerusalem
by faithfully following him
who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Note that the alternative doesn't ask for the branches to be blessed (though they are sprinkled with holy water afterwards, regardless of the prayer used). Note that the alternative doesn't name Jesus as Christ. Note that the alternative is focused a bit more on us (our faith, our prayers). Note that the alternative makes no connection to the heavenly Jerusalem in juxtaposition to the worldly Jerusalem, the entrance into which we are celebrating.

Does anyone have the Latin Roman Missal for the Ordinary Form of Mass? I'd really like to know what the prayer over the branches (in Latin) is.

I like the first prayer better.

I tag the first five bloggers who read this blog and are courageous enough to admit they've been tagged. You know who you are. (Because I don't.)