The fourth Sunday in Lent is sometimes referred to as Refreshment Sunday – a day when the strictures of Lent are relaxed a bit. (It is also Mothering Sunday for those who keep that festival).
At St Mary’s tomorrow, our refreshment is coming in the form of some of the most lovely choral must that we sing here. Fr Vice Provost will be preaching on the Prodigal Child. And we’re adding one or two guest choristers into the mix.
Expect something special.
But, but… this Sunday is in no way ordinary time! It is still in Easter!
You are right, Tom. It is just an ordinary special Sunday…
Wall to wall gorgeousness from the choir – music to my ears! (Perhaps a video one day)?
I guess the Ascension was celebrated on Ascension Day? Very right and proper; but for those places that can’t achieve a Thursday evening crowd, yesterday would have been a high festival too!
I’ve never been in a church that didn’t keep Ascension on Ascension Day and I’m wondering why there are churches that don’t.
Is it that the people stopped coming because it wasn’t done well or because they are too lazy to turn out or is there some other reason?
There is a curious habit in this diocese of having joint regional services on Ascension Day in some of our regions. This has never made me think any better of our regional system.
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One of the relief agencies trying to help following the hurricane in the southern United States is Episcopal Relief and Development.More information and details of how to donate to their work here: http://www.er-d.org
A very strange day. The pipe organ at St Saviour’s is being removed today. Notwithstanding all the good reasons for taking it away, it is still a rather melancholy feeling seeing it actually being removed. Changing the organ is our big project for our 150th celebration year. A new digital pipe organ has been ordered…
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