View Full Version : Easter Greetings!
A very Happy and Blessed Easter to you all. God bless. Liz
Thanks Lizzie, I've sent you a little PM but a Happy Easter to you and best wishes from sal
Eine Alpensinfonie
24-04-11, 13:29
Lizzie, you are the nicest person I (don't?) know. :smiley:
And Easter Greetings from me. Although, most people seem to think it about Cadburys Creme Eggs and Fluffy Bunnies, which, I suppose, doesn't surprise me. In fact, the BBC published a survey a couple of years ago which said the majority thought Easter was the anniversary of Jesus' birth.
A Happy Easter to all of you, on this the most important day in the Christian calender.
And Easter Greetings from me. Although, most people seem to think it about Cadburys Creme Eggs and Fluffy Bunnies, which, I suppose, doesn't surprise me. In fact, the BBC published a survey a couple of years ago which said the majority thought Easter was the anniversary of Jesus' birth.
Today's the day that he hatched out of a Chocolate Egg, didnt he? :winkeye:
Today's the day that he hatched out of a Chocolate Egg, didnt he? :winkeye:
Unfortunately, that often is the case. Does anyone here attend the Holy Saturday Service of Light services?
And Easter Greetings from me. Although, most people seem to think it about Cadburys Creme Eggs and Fluffy Bunnies, which, I suppose, doesn't surprise me. In fact, the BBC published a survey a couple of years ago which said the majority thought Easter was the anniversary of Jesus' birth.
Having been to a lovely Easter service this morning, I'm now eating my way through a pack of Cadbury's Creme Eggs and listening to Faure's Requiem. Happy Easter, everyone.
The service of light has the Exsultet, which is wonderful and here, locally, performed by a bass profrundo. However, here is one version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNM9_mbnRfM&feature=related
I very much enjoyed watching the Easter Day Eucharist from Salisbury Cathedral this morning, being unable to get to my favourite Cathedral in Canterbury any more.
A very Happy Easter to you all, and many more
Unfortunately, that often is the case. Does anyone here attend the Holy Saturday Service of Light services?
Yes Miss! Me Miss! When our Choir sang Tavener's As one who has slept - split into boys and men and girls and men, shivers ran down my spine... Our Precentor sang the Exsultet last night and it was Glorious. The Langlais Mass this morning was stunning. Wonderful!
Lizzie, you are the nicest person I (don't?) know. :smiley:
How kind! Thank you. I was very touched to read that lovely comment. Liz
Yes Miss! Me Miss! When our Choir sang Tavener's As one who has slept - split into boys and men and girls and men, shivers ran down my spine... Our Precentor sang the Exsultet last night and it was Glorious. The Langlais Mass this morning was stunning. Wonderful!
Lizzie, our is traditional. Outside, braziers, herbs, monks, all in silence and darkness, then Esultet, Geneis, Psalm. Exodus. Exekial, more Psalms, Romans, more Psalms, Luke (it takes hours!) and then, the Liturgy of Initiation. The altar then lit up with spring flowers. Then fireworks and champagne. It is indeed wonderful, so a happy Easter to You!
Lizzie, our is traditional. Outside, braziers, herbs, monks, all in silence and darkness, then Esultet, Geneis, Psalm. Exodus. Exekial, more Psalms, Romans, more Psalms, Luke (it takes hours!) and then, the Liturgy of Initiation. The altar then lit up with spring flowers. Then fireworks and champagne. It is indeed wonderful, so a happy Easter to You!
Anna that is very much like us except the fire is lit inside the West End. I was there to support two friends being Confirmed so it was SO special. The Good Friday Liturgy was so intense and moving and reduced me to tears as always. The Veneration of the Cross and the taking of the 'broken body' as the Sanders Reproaches are sung and I am in bits of emotional rubble. Wonderful Holy Week and Easter all round! God bless. Liz
Lizzie, so it's not all Cadburys is it? :erm: I am glad someone else does the Easter experience, not many do.
Lizzie, so it's not all Cadburys is it? :erm: 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
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
24-04-11, 21:47
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.
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
24-04-11, 22:24
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.
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...
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.
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.0 Copyright © 2013 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.