All tagged good friday
Even if we are not able to attend Holy Week services this year, we will hopefully be praying alongside each other, contemplating Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection; perhaps we will recall familiar parts of the liturgy, which have made an impression on us. At this, the apex of our penitential season and its resolution, the Revd Prof Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski reminds us to be mindful of the ways in which our liturgical practices might themselves require repentance.
Do you watch Call the Midwife? I’m sure you know it features the same order of nuns who now live in this parish. In a favourite scene of mine, the redoubtable Sister Evangelina chides nurse Miller for buying dolly mixtures for the children. “Barley Sugar twists I said! Take all the jujubes out of there. They're everyone's favourite, and we don't want a riot on our hands.” Older and wiser, she understands that a sweet is a treat. A choice is a recipe for dissatisfaction. [...]
The audio recordings of the Holy Week homilies at St Mary Magdalen's is now available on our Mixcloud page, including sermons for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, the Three Hours' Devotion, the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion, and Easter Sunday. Find them all in a single playlist here.
