Easter Greetings!

[Lizzie]

Lizzie, so it's not all Cadburys is it? I am glad someone else does the Easter experience, not many do.

It simply means everything to me and I would feel utterly bereft without it, unfashionable and un-PC though many considerable me to be for saying it! God bless. Liz

[mangerton]

It simply means everything to me and I would feel utterly bereft without it, unfashionable and un-PC though many considerable me to be for saying it! God bless. Liz

Lizzie and Anna, I know exactly what you mean.

I've had a very busy weekend in church. On Friday evening we had a service of anthems and readings, mostly from the RSCM "Cross of Christ" book. On Saturday the church holds the Easter Vigil at 9.00 pm when our candle is lit. The choir is not involved. Our curate used to sing the "Exsultet". He has now his own charge, and when the Rector asked, I volunteered to sing it. The copy I was given was written in neumes, which I found ......... challenging? Anyway, I found it a most moving experience, and I think the smallish congregation did too. (Anna, I'm a bass, but certainly not profundo!)

Today we had a glorious Easter Eucharist with the well known hymns, Harwood in A flat, and a not-too-bad attempt at "Hallelujah".




A Happy Easter and best wishes to all.

[Don Basilio]

O happy fault.

I've moved in the last year, and my new church only does the Easter Vigil without a eucharist. Rubbish. I attended a lovely 30s church on a suburban estate with no choir and barely twenty present. Most of those were well over retirement. It was lovely.

[Anna]

Bless you Mangerton and Lizzie. The veneration of the cross. now that is something and it is sad people just don't get it although it is harsh

[Don Basilio]

Many years ago we spent the end of Holy Week at an Anglican convent. As the nuns were a bit doddery, they didn't go up to kiss the cross individually, but venerated from a distance. I had a foul headache all day (which was my birthday). After the liturgy, the cross was placed in a side chapel, and the less doddery sisters went up and venerated it. I went up and kissed it as well, and from then on my headache was not there.

My new church had far too many hymns on Good Friday, to my mind. And they didn't chant the passion.

[Lizzie]

Bless you Mangerton and Lizzie. The veneration of the cross. now that is something and it is sad people just don't get it although it is harsh

It gets me every time... We have a beautiful though stark Peter Eugene Ball Crucifix and as I look at it, the sadness in the eyes seems to look into me. Then to turn away to receive the wafer, snapped with the words,'The body of Christ, broken for you', at the same time as hearing the Sanders Reproaches and that's me in emotional shreds! Can't speak to anyone for several hours...

[Lizzie]

O happy fault.

I've moved in the last year, and my new church only does the Easter Vigil without a eucharist. Rubbish. I attended a lovely 30s church on a suburban estate with no choir and barely twenty present. Most of those were well over retirement. It was lovely.

That sounds lovely. Sometimes it's wonderful not to have all the razzamataz. I shall in to the said Eucharist at the Cathedral tomorrow and know I will find such peace there after all the huge services of recent days. Next Sunday we shall have no Choir but the Mattins and Eucharist congregations will sing the hymns with gusto and meaning... . Will love it! Enjoy your new church.