Merry Christmas
Just back from a walk through Beacon Hill park to the ocean with Sam. A couple of hours of clambering up rocks and through mud. He had a marvelous time and, I suspect, will remember the walk long after Christmas presents have been forgotten. There was a seal swimming towards Ogden Point and hundreds of people enjoying the gentle sea air. It was abbout 60 degrees yesterday and much the same today.
I walked up to the Anglican cathedral last night for the Christmas communion. The place was standing room only. At a guess there would have been 2000 people. the Christmas Eucharist is always a wonderful service but the Cathedral, with a full choir, the marvelous organ and a string section, celebrated the birth of Jesus in grand style. It is, after all, diffficult to go wrong with Mozart.
It had been a long time since I could attend a Christmas Eucharist. Too busy, too far away, too scattered; but when I heard the Cathedral bells I realized how much I had missed the Anglican Church.
It was a small Christmas gift to myself. A precious one.
Merry Christmas all.
Written by jay on December 26th, 2005 with
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#1. December 27th, 2005, at 8:30 AM.
Even though I was born of Scots immigrants, one of whom came to be called to a United Church ministry and have followed with my family in that community, I also went to Kings College in Halifax and learned to love the Anglican way as well…even if my graduation ceremony was largely in Latin. Good for you to have ears as it were.