- It is on Thursday 19 June 2014 this year.
- It is always on a Thursday.
- It is one of the most extravagent and lovely religious festivals that human beings have devised.
- Thomas Aquinas is said to have invented it to bring the focus back to Jesus Christ in churches which were rather keen on his mother.
- It is about gazing in wonder – and we don’t do that nearly enough.
- Our Lord himself comes and wanders amongst his people – just like in real life!
- Abraham (as Bishop Kevin was always wont to say) would have understood this feast
- We scatter flower petals hither and yon to make a suitable pathway for God to come amongst us
- It smells. Lovely.
- The service takes place at 7.30 pm in St Mary’s on Thursday evening – please bring flower petals to the sacristy by 7 pm if you can
11 responses to “Blogroll”
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(Yeah, I’ve given up on wittering. Transpires Q, in which I wrote that thing, was too CPU-intensive for the poor wee colo-server to cope with when bots came knocking, so it had to go; it’s all-but a dead language now anyway…)
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There are easier ways to host a blog, Tim…
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Mental. On my ‘to do’ list for today was to write a ‘back blogging’ post…
Very strange!
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Think of it as the Holy Spirit, Nick.
Or alternatively think of it as synchronicity as many of the rest of us might do.
Glad you are coming back.
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David Campbell’s blog has long since moved to here:
http://limpingtowardsthesunrise.wordpress.com/-
So it does. Thanks, I’ve updated the link.
I usually read Fr David’s blog in google reader. What an exotic layout it has in real life!
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My dears, I can only wish I were as exotic in real life!
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Hope Nick starts blogging again too! He did a post reviewing The Dark Knight once, which is more down-wit’-da-kidz than highfalutin’ praepostorial theatre reviews 😉 (that said, do hope you do The Habit of Art! :-))
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I did Figaro.
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Thanks Kelvin, I’ll have a look at the rss thing – it’s all a bit new to me still!
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Thanks John – you’ve already got a nicely behaving rss feed for your content but I can’t find one for comments.
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