Today is Lammas Day – Scotland’s traditional first fruits of the harvest day.
Here’s a Lammas Sermon from a couple of years ago.
6 responses to “Carol Service”
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Fr Kelvin, is there a link to a pdf of the order of service so we can all see it?
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I’ll try to post a pdf later today. I need to pick it up from the office and then bring it home to change it to pdf format. I also need to correct a couple of mistakes before I forget what they were.
I can’t post everything that was in the people’s hands for copyright reasons, but I’ll see what I can include.
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It was something like this, Robert.
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And the Choir looked like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonrasmith/sets/72157611524510670/
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In the service sheet, verse 3 of In the Bleak Midwinter has the wrong words.
The words as used by Harold Darke, and as sung as a tenor solo last night, from memory are:
Enough for Him whom Cherubim worship night and day,
A breast full of milk, and a manger full of hay,
Enough for Him, whom angels fall down before,
the ox and ass and camel which adoreOK, I shall remove my anorak now!
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More pictures from the Carol service at:
http://bonnyton.fotopic.net/c1627814.htmland
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pencefn/sets/72157611423694339/
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