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The Bible Institute
1 -001-11-30T00:00:00-07:52 Craig Dietrich 2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490 10 5 Two episodes documenting the 50th anniversary banquets held at The Bible Institute in North Philadelphia on April 29th and 30th, 1996. 6-7 minutes each. plain 2011-05-10T11:12:45-07:00 wluers@gmail.com Critical Commons Will Luers 2f0376b300f2ff7145f4f5c8f06d3ab51e0c730dThis page is referenced by:
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The Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary
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In April, 1946, the remaining Peace Mission members celebrated The Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary of Father and Mother Divine with seven banquet services held at various properties in the Philadelphia area.Mother Divine arrived at each banquet by limousine and wearing a formal gown, as she had always done at her anniversary banquets with her husband since their marriage in 1946. She greeted the invited guests of Father Divine and then took her place at the head of the long table next to the place set for her "personally absent," but still spiritually present husband.
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The Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary
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In April, 1946, the remaining Peace Mission members celebrated The Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary of Father and Mother Divine with seven banquet services held at various properties in the Philadelphia area.Mother Divine arrived at each banquet by limousine and wearing a formal gown, as she had always done at her anniversary banquets with her husband since their marriage in 1946. She greeted the invited guests of Father Divine and then took her place at the head of the long table next to the place set for her "personally absent," but still spiritually present husband.
- 1 2010-08-10T14:06:35-07:00 The Holy Communion Banquet Service 18 The main communal ritual of the Peace Mission. Table are multi-course dining events that include singing and testimonials. text 2012-05-04T14:55:50-07:00 "The Holy Communion Banquet Service" was central to Father Divine's fame as he and his followers dined, worshipped, sang, ecstatically danced, and praised God together. These public display events of the bounty of God's spiritual and physical harvest served a great variety of foods representative of the abundance received by followers through a life of faith and service to God, Father Divine (See Kephart's description 1987:94-99). Many men and women became adherents as a result of such material displays in the face of their experience of urban poverty, especially through the years of the Great Depression when Father charged very little or what one could afford for the food.