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Day Off
Most relaxing half hour of yesterday’s day off was having a very floppy puppy fall fast asleep, cradled in my arms.In other wildlife news, this morning I heard and saw a willow warbler (no, really) and nearly wrote off a deer.
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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
The day started bright and early with the 8 am congregation. There were double the number that I am used to at 8 am. Some had even come bright and cheerily on pilgrimage from Alloa to hear me sing the Exsultet. (I sing the Exsultet here twice – once at the vigil, a modern version…
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Vigil
"Keep your eyes open when you are praying" is one of the first things that I teach people about prayer. How else can you see your prayers being answered?Thus, the gathered company witnessed the blessing of the best Easter fire ever seen in B of A. As I blessed, the fire billowed up and was…
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Good Friday
Part of my own liturgy of life is to listen to Zelenka’s Lamentations of Jeremiah on Good Friday. Parts of the music were written for this day, and the achingly beautiful laments move me every year.I was troubled later in the day to hear of the knife attacks on Christians worshipping in Coptic churches in…
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Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday is such a strange mixture of frenzy and stillness. The frenzy of stripping the altar – the stillness of the watch in Gethsemene afterwards.Our altar of repose looked very beautiful this year. White tulips just on the cusp of their sadness, a spray of white and a single lilly head next to Himself.…
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Stations of the Cross
I know that it goes against the grain to look to a PR company for your Holy Week devotions, but if you have not already seen them, take a look at the Stations of the Cross on this website:http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb274092.htmI did mention them a while ago, but it is worth coming back to them and having…
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First Lambs
Saw my first lambs of the year yesterday, just outside Callander.
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Book Blog
There are a couple of new reviews on the book blog. In response to an overwhelming number of request, you can also now add comments.
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No sermon today
No sermon today – we read the Passion according to Mark instead, the congregation as the Body of Christ reading Jesus’s words.
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The Silver Swan
The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approach’d, unlock’d her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more. Farewell, all joys; O Death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.