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Date: 29 January 2007 16:57:58
A day for looking back at the lights of Advent and Christmas and forward - through the darkness of the Crucifixion - to the light of Easter. This was effectively demonstrated during the sermon by the use of a candle which relit when it was blown out. We sang 'Teach me O Lord' (Attwood), before processing to the font with our own lit candles (which did not relight when blown out).
Festival Evensong included the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Brewer) and 'Lift up your heads O ye Gates' (Matthias), the words of which were this morning's psalm, but the music of which would probably not have fitted so well into the more reflective Eucharist. The vicar liked the lively Matthias setting.