For all those who get the winter blues. The solstice is past. Here comes the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muFOeZSIC2U
For all those who get the winter blues. The solstice is past. Here comes the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muFOeZSIC2U
I do like ‘try to wind everyone as far up the candlestick of joy as I dare’. St Mary’s does have natural advantages, which let it succeed as it does. However, I really do not think other churchs need to make so much of their natural disadvantages…
…And don’t forget Evensong, which for me (as you’d expect) was even more glorious. I even felt moved to blog about it in the first of a ‘Guilty Pleasures’ series! http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/guilty-pleasures-1/
It was particularly wonderful for the Boston choir to be singing Frikki’s great setting of Newman’s poem/hymn ‘Lead Kindly Light’
A fabulous end to a remarkable day in the Cathedral. Truly uplifting.
Sounds as if everybody had great time. On occasions, such as this, I wish you could record the whole service, as you do with the Sermon, for people to watch on line.
The prayer at the end – pretty good.
Our congregation recently decided to introduce an Evensong service once a month so I’m looking forward to that.
I went looking and I found the evidence. Who is that there listening intently in the bottom right corner?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iH_gvqP-uik/UT2JPcJ0PKI/AAAAAAAABB0/OuXAMY9KbBA/s1600/IMG_8332.JPG
Standing Committee convener tells us that this is a good time to begin to reshape our priorities again from a zero base.
£2 Million lump sum has been paid into the pension scheme as part of the rescue plan.
St Serf’s Care home has been transferred to new ownership. Tribute is payed to the Synod Office staff and Ian Stewar for their work on this. Monies previously leant to the home have been returned to the church and will subsequently appear in accounts.
Raspberry Rabbit has some nice pics of worship and also a link to the Primus’s Charge. http://raspberry_rabbit.blogspot.com/2010/06/primus-charge-primus-charge-to-general.html
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