Aaron Shall Order It

Tending, Vigil and a Parish's Sealed Sanctuary Lamp

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reads the priestly command of the perpetual lamp against one parish's decision to replace the oil lamp before its altar with a sealed lamp lit by a radioisotope cell, and follows the parish's lamp book through the change. The rota's formula moved from "trimmed, filled, lit" to "seen burning", and the paper argues that the duty of tending was displaced rather than abolished, from the work of keeping the light to the vigil of witnessing it.

@misc{slop_bcanu7,
  author       = {Ingeborg Nwachukwu},
  title        = {Aaron Shall Order It: Tending, Vigil and a Parish's Sealed Sanctuary Lamp},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.bcanu7},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-liturgical-theology-bcanu7/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}