Comments for see-through faith

Comment on evensong by Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:03:02 +0000

I should say evensong yesterday was not choral evensong. Most of the liturgy was spoken (by the reader with responses from the congregation).

The Magnificat (Mary’s song from Luke 1: 46-55) and the Nunc Dimittis (Simeon’s Song from Luke 2: 28-30) were sung by the choir triplet, and the psalm by the organist with responses by the congregation.

Comment on discipleship by Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:58:54 +0000

That’s an interesting point you make Frances. Did they not recognise their healing? or were they simply hidebound (as you put it) by tradition – and if so what does that say to us today?

Comment on discipleship by Frances

Frances — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:11:05 +0000

I once suggested in a sermon that it was perhaps because that one leper was a foreigner that he was able to act on his own instincts and return and give thanks. The others being Jews were hidebound by Jewish Law which said that they were not clean until the priest had examined them and declared them clean. I would like to think that they too would say thank you once they had been through the necessary rituals. Sometimes though gut feelings have to take priority over the ‘done thing’! The foreigner just knew that he was healed and couldn’t wait to have it confirmed by the priest.

Comment on evensong by Frances

Frances — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:52:49 +0000

Aphra – Evensong is the traditional English service of Evening Prayer, the counterpart of Matins (Morning Prayer). I love a really ‘well done’ Choral Evensong but, as Lorna says, it has become more of a performance by the choir than a service for the congregation to join in. That is mainly because it is not used so frequently now and many people are not familiar enough with the responses or the music to join in. As a teenager I was at a traditional English public school where we regularly worshipped through Matins and Evensong and the whole school were ‘rehearsed’ in the music, so I find it very sad now to find other music which I cannot sing, but even after all these years my body still reacts instinctively to the words, standing, sitting or kneeling as appropriate! A friend and I used to make a habit of visiting English cathedrals for Choral Evensong, which was always beautifully sung, but more of a performance than an act of worship. It is part of the downside of modernising everything. Perhaps we are so wrapped up in making it all understandable that we have lost some of the sheer wonder and awe of worshipping God beautifully.

Comment on evensong by Aphra

Aphra — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:42:38 +0000

This was all Greek to me. I don’t know what evensong is so I can’t begin to understand what you don’t like about it!

Comment on Nudge by Lorna

Lorna — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:23:45 +0000

oh ((((Aphra))))

the book is good though …

Comment on Nudge by Aphra

Aphra — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:18:00 +0000

I don’t think I’d get the book “Nudge”. I’d get the book “Clobber over the head”.
A couple of weeks ago a good friend of mine who was on track for the ministry was arrested for possession of child porn.
Life has been a bit off-axis since then.

Comment on God’s water park by R

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:43:27 +0000

Really vice!! Glad you enjoyed your little trip. Pretty pictures, too!

Comment on island hopping by Jan Cain

Jan Cain — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:44:08 +0000

You’re right! I got confused!! (which of course hardly ever happens!!!:)

Comment on island hopping by Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:18:02 +0000

Jan you are a great friend and I miss you. Hope you’ll visit again sometime.

Actually I drove to Vantaa (Hki) to pick this friend up, whereas if memory serves me right, you flew right into Turku (which is the world’s best aiport!!!)