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Date: 31 January 2010 20:40:14
A grand procession, with acolytes, the Vestry Group, the choir and our largest banners, led the clergy - including our guest preacher, the Archdeacon, into church this morning. We were led neatly from Christmas towards the penitential season of Lent, beginning with 'Angels from the realms of Glory', and ending, once all our candles had eventually been lit, with 'Faithful vigil ended'. 'O thou the central orb' (Wood) made a very fitting anthem. We welcomed a new member to the tenor section this week - a very useful addition given that we were singing two magnificent anthems today. The evening anthem was 'Lift up your heads' (Matthias), which, unusually, is much easier to sing than it sounds; other music included the Millington responses and the Moeran in D setting for the canticles. We really must learn to count during the Moeran Magnificat as the entries arrive sooner than one would think.