out with the old?

Once again, Kate has written an important post reflecting on the experience of Liturgy –  most specifically: what it feels like to be pushed to the edge by overwhelmingly male & patriarchal language for God.   I can picture the scene all too easily, and it frustrates me.
But I know that if Kate came here, she [...]

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homage to Coleridge

While I have been writing a sermon on Beauty, Molly has been practicing her illustrative skills.  She is not yet at Coleridge’s artistic level, but her redemptive vision is clear.

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snow on snow

time for the annual link to Make a Flake.

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Christmas dinner

Wish granted.  No new camera, but time to sit and wait. The photos don’t begin to tell you how lovely she is, only a few feet away.
Now it really is nap time, with my most disgruntled feline.

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25 December

Merry Christmas, all.
Be sure to read Rosemary’s Image of God over at Thinking Anglicans.  It was the finale for our carol service, and has now found the wider audience it deserves.

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half way

Two Chrsitmas services done, two to go (booklets and planning, that is).
And then the sermon.
Just for the record:  do we think we know Lo how a Rose, or will I be singing solo?  (Rothesay…?)

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new plan

I’ve just been reading Kate’s most recent post for the fourth or fifth time.   The image of domestic bliss and the faint whiff of cinnamon keep drawing me back.
So, I have a plan.
Forget bloggers and bluebells.  This year’s party is going to be a day of cookie making.  Not sure when yet.  Girls (and honorary [...]

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treasure trove

I stumbled across a lovely bit of Sirach while preparing the carol service which was used in the opening prayer, and which I forgot to print in the bookie.
Why had I never noticed this passage before?
And now bless the God of all,
who everywhere works great wonders,
who fosters our growth from birth,
and deals with us according [...]

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other gifts

Ordination changes the seasons, fills the diary and shifts ones focus so the ‘normal things’ of Christmas seem an impossible luxury to me today.  So, I sit here in the rectory knowing that I will not decorate, that if I bake at all, it will be a few days after the event, and that I [...]

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read, sung and mulled

I was going to blog about today’s carol service, but Blethers has beaten me to it.  I might well say more tomorrow, but for now, I’ll testify to the truth of her last sentence and leave it at that.
(but before I go, have I mentioned  how stunningly talented these congregations are?  Only five times in [...]

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