How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings
The Evangelist
July 2018
When I was doing my Undergraduate Degree at Queen Mary College, my friend and I would cycle out on Sunday to explore the country.
Business may not be next to godliness, but it gives a pretty good impression of it in much of our culture. And yet we all need a time of rest, a Sabbath.
The performance of liturgy is serious business... until something untoward happens, and the servers and clergy are hard-pressed not to crack up.
What happened that made me wipe the scales off my eyes was a series of funerals, the likes of which I could never have dreamed up. They seemed serious at the time, but in retrospect they are humourous.
That publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good , that publisheth salvation