Today in many churches we light the first candle on the Advent wreath. It’s not Christmas yet and the wreath with its four candles reminds us that there are four Sundays before we celebrate Christ’s birth. Vestments today are purple except in Salisbury where they are blue by ancient tradition. Our church service is less […]
Advent starts at dusk as we prepare to light the first Advent candle tomorrow on Advent Sunday. Christmas is several weeks away. Tonight there will be the first Advent carol services, often by candlelight, at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral. In Oxford there are carols at Christ […]
I am signing copies of my new book Keeping Advent & Christmas at Southwark Cathedral from 12.30pm on Sunday. The signing follows the 11am Advent Sunday Choral Eucharist and is part of The Friends Christmas Market. Also signing books at Sunday lunchtime will be Timothy West and Prunella Scales whose book Our Great Canal Journeys: […]
Today is Christ the King Sunday although it is better known as Stir Up Sunday. This is thanks to the opening words of the ancient collect for this Sunday which is now heard as the post communion prayer at today’s Anglican Eucharist. Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the […]
