Rejoice, rejoice! The solstice is past.
Here comes the sun.
5 responses to “Yesterday”
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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…
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…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.
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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.
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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?
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