The Hearth of Mopsus

In fact all the Easter services went rather well apart from a confusion about hymn numbers on Sunday ('I feel like a bingo caller', ...

… has offered a variety of experiences. Monday: I attend on my Spiritual Director and mention that the Bishop, for the first time ever, is...

Holy Week at Swanvale Halt was bookended by syncope. Lillian, our former Lay Reader, keeled over during the Palm Sunday mass, and at 8am on ...

If attendance is an indicator of success, our Holy Week and Easter services were successful this year. In previous years I've had to aba...

Several of my colleagues of The Other Integrity have been posting pictures this Holy Week of the Chrism Masses they've attended with the...

No evening Easter services at Swanvale Halt this year (I've tried doing Evensong in the past but had only a handful of takers all of who...

By now that should not be news, but Dr RedMedea is Greek and so for her Easter has come a bit later than in the Anglican calendar. On her te...

Last year I courted disaster doing the Easter Vigil on my own at home: this time there was a handful of us observing the proper rites at the...

NB. I discover I'd only saved this post as a draft, not published it! -     -     -     -     -     - The PCC decided on Friday to resum...

Oh dear, poor Archbishop Justin can do nothing right this Easter. A peevish appearance on Youtube last week implying that keeping clergy ou...

Stumbling through the liturgy took on a very literal sense this morning, as managing the Rectory stairs with the Paschal Candle in one hand ...

This closeup picture of the Maundy Thursday Altar of Repose makes the candles look crazier than in fact they were. The flowers, as usual r...

Strangely the most intense moment of Easter Day came right at the beginning, as I sat with a cup of tea (not a very nice one, as it happen...

We're used to Christians complaining about the marginalisation of Christmas from seasonal celebrations, and used to discovering that mos...

Easter at Swanvale Halt was a bit lacklustre this year: numbers were down at most of the services, and the Passion service for families wh...

As the traditional Churches Together in Hornington Good Friday Walk of Witness got under way a week ago, it was clear that the drizzly wea...

Nothing happens in the church on Easter Monday, so I had a pleasing day off yesterday. Nevertheless I'm somewhat reluctant to go out of ...

Of course despite my earlier post Easter was fine. Attendance at the Triduum services was pretty much the same as last year, except for the ...

I am fed up with the number of people telling me they're away over Easter. The way the day falls this year seems to be playing havoc a...

This Easter Day I wore my old gold set for both the 5.45am and the 10am. I don't believe I've posted about it before, so to celebrat...