Easter Monday

Hope you have all been having a Happy Easter friends and loved ones, I thought of you all enjoying your roast lamb at lunchtime.

Our Easter services were a bit of a debacle.  Fr Bill seemed to have a streaming cold, I wasn't very happy at taking the Communion wafer from him yesterday.  Fr Clark might have taken over from him if he had been there, but at the moment he is filling in, conducting services in Spanish at a Hispanic church near Tulsa, which he seems to be enjoying.  

Tenebrae services (which we have on Maundy Thursday, but for some weird reason they have it here on Wednesday) are supposed to end very abruptly, with a loud bang - they got that right, I jumped - then the lights go out, and everyone scatters in the darkness in silence, as the disciples did on the day before Good Friday.   As I made my way out in the dark everyone was still sitting in their pews, looking at each other confused, and even as I pulled out of the car park no one was following me out.  I think they all filed into the parish room, chatting and visiting.  Which was totally missing the point of the Service.

Then on the Saturday evening Vigil, which starts in darkness and everyone has a candle, I think they ran out of candles, I didn't get one, I couldn't see the service sheet, and while I sat alone in the darkness in this foreign land, all the parishioners round me were holding their candles, sitting in the light,  and I thought "there is a sermon in here somewhere".

Anyway, moving on, there was an Easter egg hunt for the children on Sunday morning.

Although it is not so much a "hunt" as a run and grab.  Here the children are lining up.

 

 

 



There seemed to be plenty for everyone, there were quite full baskets.  I am glad that was something they got right.

I have already discovered, at 9.30 am, that today isn't promising.   Scattered thunderstorms, better make sure the closet door is open for Bubbles.