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Date: 13 December 2004 20:39:19
Last Thursday was our chaplaincy 'end of term feed' (not my words!), a bit of a tradition now to get together at the end of term once everyone's work is (almost) done for a meal and a catch up. So, with another deadline (nearly) behind me I left the library and followed the smell of pizza to the chapel. Yes, the chapel. Sounds a little unorthodox? That's students for you! Well, the place has to be multi-purpose! But I noticed, then or later, that it wasn't that different from the usual Tuesday lunchtime communion we share in the same room. Yes, the bread had been substituted with pizza (though there was still wine!), it wasn't quite so silent and contemplative, and there were less bible readings and more random chatter. But it was communion. We came together to share a meal. Share problems, thoughts, laughter, and, as usual (we're a jolly lot) song.
I see most of these people every day, at lunchtimes or between lectures. But things are usually so busy, we're so concerned about the approaching deadlines, that we don't have time to stop. So, with the term behind us, Christmas on its way, before we all go our separate ways, we gathered together, in the middle of a deserted university campus on a Thursday evening. And people wonder why we want to be students for ever?