So we have four services on Christmas Eve. The first is a children’s pageant. This year I will be working the nursery for that service, with the assistance (?) of little she and miss m. As a parent, I never get to volunteer in the nursery, so I’m excited about that.
Then we will have our […]

Some of the readings for the Lessons and Carols service on Sunday, adapted for “speakers’ choir”:
Still to revise a bit (suggestions?), and figure out who will be saying what, and rehearse, and did I mention that now it’s *little she-who-is* who is running a fever?…
It’s like being nibbled to death by ducks.
FIRST LESSON Genesis 3:8-15 […]

Weeping comes for a night,
but joy comes in the morning, O God of power and might.
Death has been defeated
and we shout Alleluia!
Let all that we do today be a prayer of praise.
For many of us,
it is an Easter just like the others,
with Easter bonnets and Sunday best,
with the ringing of bells and hymns of joy,
with […]

O Holy God,
the hosannas have died away,
the palm branches have turned brittle;
the joy of seder meal,
the awkward intimacy of washing feet,
the sharing of bread and cup with one another—
all a memory.
Now, today, there is only this—
each of us,
all of us,
sitting in the darkness,
the echo of hammer and nail in our ears
on this Friday
which we tremble […]