Posted in blog on 31 March, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I need special dispensation from the liturgical committee for an out of season Alleluia.
All praise for the new found set of commands that have taught my old printer new tricks. I can now print duplex booklets with a minimum of fuss and no misprinted pages.
I reckon that should save about 5 hours this week, which [...]
Posted in photos, poetry on 30 March, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tonight was the last of the Lent Groups on Prayer and we were down to the faithful few. It seems I’m not the only feeling a bit pressured right now. It’s been a remarkable group: new members and old, few obvious connections between them and remarkably diverse personalities. Yet each of them open [...]
Posted in blog on 26 March, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Life is a bit on top of me right now (for which you can blame church meetings and Holy Week liturgies) so no blogging for a few days. Back soon…
Posted in blog on 24 March, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It is nearly 7.15 pm, and darkness has not quite fallen. The blackbird is trilling. The deer are grazing on the lawn, and I think I’ve just seen a bat swoop by. All of which is made more precious by the knowledge that by tomorrow, this will be happening at 8.15 pm.
UK readers: don’t forget [...]
Posted in prayer on 23 March, 2007 | 7 Comments »
During Lent, a small group from Dunoon has been exploring different methods of prayer. Many of our sesions have involved led meditatations: everthing from tools for developing our attention to meditations on scripture and imaginative prayer. None of it has translated well into blogging. But tonight’s session might. We were [...]
Posted in congregation on 22 March, 2007 | No Comments »
If you go to church, any church, go watch the video from the Diocese of New Hampshire that Kelvin has posted here. It takes about half an hour. It is about money. Watch it anyway.
Posted in blog on 20 March, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve just spent the morning with the organist of Holy Trinity, trying to work through Holy Week and Easter. It’s such a delight to have someone to plan with — and someone who will share my excitement at the thought of dark churches filled with plainsong and gospel readings proclaimed with Alleluias. (Just [...]
Posted in learning on 19 March, 2007 | 12 Comments »
St Paul’s met for the third of the Lenten series on Liturgy today: a ludicrously quick look at the early development of the eucharist, followed by a consideration of the Liturgy of the Word (used loosely to mean everything before the offertory).
Simple, right?
But along the way, questions arose that took us into the history [...]
Posted in blog on 17 March, 2007 | 14 Comments »
As the clergy of Argyll gathered this week, we were asked to think about the distinctiveness of the spiritual tradition in this part of the world. Our guide asked us to ponder the future role of our church by looking to the past: to the spirituality of St Columba and the nature [...]
Posted in photos on 16 March, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Tuesday, I set off for Iona — not, as you might think, in eager anticipation and delight, but with a ‘to-do’ list a mile long, increasing anxiety at the speed with which Holy Week was approaching, and impatience at the thought of having to spend another week with the clergy of Argyll (having [...]
