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• Day Off

  18/04/2006

  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. 

• Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

  16/04/2006

  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…

• Vigil

  15/04/2006

  "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…

• Good Friday

  14/04/2006

  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…