It is the Feast of the Transfiguration today.
The top 10 reasons for coming to the Transfiguration service tonight at 7.30 pm in St Mary’s are:
- It is the festival of change – an auspicious day to come to church to pray about something you would like to change in your life.
- We are singing a simple plainsong mass – yay!
- Good day to pray for peace in the world – anniversary of Hiroshima
- The Provost is preaching
- The Provost has said his sermon will be short
- Jesus appeared from within a cloud. Guess what we are having.
- Moses and Elijah will be there, so I’d better be.
- It is the most important festival after Christmas and Easter
- It is one of those church dayswhich is pure bottled glory, glory, alleluia.
- Chances are, it might be followed by a pilgrimage to the Lansdowne for fellowship and pure bottled something else.
Well if you put it like that I will see you in the Lansdowne at 8.30pm 😉
#6 is giving me strange visions of just half of you sticking out of a cloud of incense. 🙂
re 8 above, doesn’t the SEC do Pentecost?
Here, we did Transfiguration yesterday…
Tim – what is so strange about your vision.
Simon – quite so, I’m glad someone is paying attention. Actually, Ash W, Ascension Day and Epiphany rank higher than the Transfiguration too.
It would seem that in this (not too) far-away corner of the SEC, St Oswald ranks higher. Sunday evening I (and 5 other voices) sang Evensong in honour of the saint. Brewer in D forsooth. They were well pleased by the turnout in the pews.
Don’t ever let St M’s get you down.
Re 8 above . . . I was wondering . . . but aside from Ash Wed, Epiphany and Pentecost, what about Good Friday . . . or the Feast of the Anunciation?