Mothering Sunday

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Date: 03 July 2005 15:49:00

Mothering Sunday Family Eucharist, with a gaggle of Brownies, Sunday School and other children in attendance and going up to receive bouquets of flowers for Mum. It's really cute to see the little ones go forward, but even better to see the great big galumphing teenagers, who suddenly remember they have mums too. It's one of the few Sundays in the year when we have college students in church, or those who have left home to start jobs elsewhere - the church was as full as at Easter or Christmas! The anthem was 'O Lord increase my faith' and there was a play by the Sunday School about the origin of Mothering Sunday, complete with a male 'Dame'! These pantomime roles are fast becoming a church speciality, which makes a change from people pointing out that the whole act of going to church is one big pantomime.....

Evensong, and the theme of Mothering Sunday was much more muted - but the reading of Moses in the Bulrushes, and the Magnificat took on extra significance. After Evensong was a choir party, loads and loads of food and a music quiz with easter egg prizes. Disappointingly (for some) nobody fell in the pond this year.....