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Date: 08 January 2012 21:09:06
The three kings managed to arrive at the crib this morning, without getting lost on the way, or broken. The many references to stars, kings, rising of suns and eastern promise made sure that only someone both very hard of hearing and poor of sight would have failed to notice that we were celebrating the Epiphany today. In contrast to all the pageantry, we were asked to sing a very simple Taize chant as the anthem today: 'In the Lord I'll be ever thankful', unison, S with ATB hum, SATB. Next time we might add the Cantor part for added effect.
A splendid lunch of homemade vegetable soup and apricot galettes awaited us after the morning service, made by one of our choir members, assisted by other church members. Fortunately, we had a few hours to digest the firsts, seconds (and even, for the hardy, thirds) before we had to sing again.
Another Festival Evensong tonight - the congregation will be getting bored soon - this time with rather stronger voices in all parts. The Sweeney responses, Moeran in D, and 'From the Rising of the Sun' (Gore Ouseley) were sung with confidence and enjoyment.