Tag: Lent

Music for Lent 1: Angelis suis

Byartsyhonker February 14, 2018 0 Comments
(If I've done this correctly it should post on Wednesday night, UK time...) Ready or not, Lent is upon us. In January, Sally Martin-Brown asked me if I had anything suitable for the University of London Church Choir visit to Jerusalem. I had a rummage through my notebooks, sure I'd started something at some point, and sure enough, there was a sort of skeleton of this piece, the Latin version of...

Sermon: Second Sunday of Lent

Byartsyhonker March 1, 2015 0 Comments
Sermon for 1st March 2015 St Paul's Woldingham, Evensong Second Sunday of Lent Psalm 135:1-14 Genesis 12:1-9 Hebrews 11:1-3,8-16 "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." All three of tonight's readings are about faith, in one way or another. The Psalm starts, telling us to praise God -- not only because God has power over wind and rain, oceans and...

Lent: Read the Bible in 40 Days

Byartsyhonker March 4, 2014 0 Comments
I've been humming and hawing for a while about what to take up, or give up, as a Lenten discipline. I'm not a huge one for giving up 'naughty' foods; it's too easy for these fasts to become, for me, about conformity to the world's ideas about what my body should look like, rather than about faithful engagement with God. But various disciplines I've taken up in previous years don't seem to be...

What I am planning for Lent…

Byartsyhonker February 15, 2012 0 Comments
No, not the music -- more on that anon. I'm planning something else.I'm planning on sowing, each day of Lent, some seeds for edible plants. I'll be posting pictures to Tumblr and those will turn up on Twitter; once a week I'll try and do a summary post of some sort, which I'll link to from here and FaceBorg and various other places for those of you who aren't into Twitter.Do feel free to join me,...

Here we go…

Byartsyhonker April 8, 2011 0 Comments
There's this Sunday, and then another "normal" week, and then it's Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday will see four services in four days -- not excessive, by any means, but bear in mind I am used to just four or five services per month, with the occasional funeral thrown in. Suddenly there doesn't seem to be nearly enough time, both in terms of learning to play the music...