Hail the Day!

My cotta is only the wonkiest of the three clergy here because I have been fiddling in my pocket trying to turn my microphone on. Yesterday for the great festival of the Lord's Ascension we had a service at church on behalf of Churches Together in Hornington and District led by me and Fr Jeffery the Roman Catholic priest, with Marlene from Tophill Church preaching. Fifty souls was far more than I was expecting and despite the predominately Catholic tone (the chanting of the Magnificat was to a particularly Catholic tone, one I had to be introduced to) it was a genuinely ecumenical event with people present from lots of churches. Only I and Fr Jeffery did the singing, of course, and I could have done with 'Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise' being pitched a bit lower. It always amazes me that, after the first verse, you never seem to sing the same version of that hymn in any setting you happen to be.