Jackie,                  [return to school prayer]  [kitchen door]

A prayer that invokes the name Lucifer, I think you would agree,
would be pretty gosh-darn-it upsetting to many folks at our high
school football game. Lucifer is understood to mean the person
responsible for evil. Lucifer is understood to be the Devil. Be that
as it may, the name Lucifer is Latin and refers to the protector of
Rome. Plutarch tells us that it was a special name that was not to
be uttered in ordinary conversation. The name Lucifer was rather
like the unutterable name of God in the Hebrew system in this
respect. Lucifer, centuries after the Greek Bible (aka New Testament)
was written, came to mean the Devil. Our football team captain and
Latin Studies Club president has a reason for using the name Lucifer
in his pre-game prayer. This is it: in the last chapter of the last book of
the Greek Bible our team captain finds Jesus says, "I am the root of
the offspring of David and the bright star morning star." The bright
morning star is the planet Venus, which represents love and the
special protector of Rome. In the Latin dictionary Lucifer is defined
as "morning star, planet Venus, son of Aurora and Cephalus, day."
That is what our team captain means when he uses the name Lucifer,
and it is quite possible that that is what Jesus meant when he identified
himself as the star which in Latin had the holy name Lucifer. It makes
sense. The Romans worshipped Peace. In order to be upset by our
team captain's prayer, one would have to be ignorant of who Jesus
says he is. I believe that knowledge is better than ignorance.
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