• Pewter Nativity

  27/12/2012

  Here’s one of those nativity sets that I was talking about in my Midnight Mass sermon the other night.

  

  nativity set, pewter, Washington National Cathedral

Previous Posts

• O Adonai

  18/12/2004

  O Lord and Ruler of the House of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and gave him the law o­n Sinai: come, and redeem us with outstretched arms. Amen.The same o­ne who is known as Lord, flickers in an unsteady fire – a fire extinguished neither by our own…

• Advent

  17/12/2004

  I am indebted to Maggi Dawn for reminding me of this poem which makes me quiver. It will be o­ne of the readings at the Carol Service o­n Sunday evening at St Saviour's. The Scottish Vienna Horns will be playing, the choir have prepared carols, the church will be decorated and I will be singing…

• O Sapienta

  17/12/2004

  O Wisdom, who came from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from end to end and ordering all things mightily and sweetly: come, and teach us the way of prudence. I intended at o­ne point to put some kind of Advent calendar o­n my blog, or o­n the church website, but somehow that did…

• Music – what's playing on planet Holdsworth

  15/12/2004

  Dusty Springfield: Son of a Preacher Man [Sing it sister!]Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass in B Flat and Mass in D [Easter next year?]Jim Moray: Sweet England [Though I don't like Jamie Calum]The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Urban Spaceman [Produced by Paul McCartney – did you know?]Supertramp: Breakfast in America [No I don't know why either]Beatles: Here…