A very busy week has kept me from the blogosphere. Any readers having looked at our programme for Holy Week will have seen just how much was going on. Bishop Andrew asked the Faithful to be just that in Holy Week and we have had good numbers at all the Masses and Devotions this week.
Mass attendance and that at Stations of the Cross was well up this year and the Maria Desolata Stations on Good Friday evening saw over a 100% increase.
Just before the Triduum Sacrum began there was a phone call from a priest in a non-parochial context to ask what time Mass was and would I be stripping the altars? To which I replied that I would be and that I would be washing the feet of 12 parishioners. "You wash feet?" was the rather amazed response. Yes we do - its what priesthood is all about.
A goodly number of people observed the Watch and were coming and going until midnight.
The Good Friday Liturgy was very well attended and the Veneration of the Cross was as beautiful as always with the Reproaches sung by the choir.
The Easter Vigil this evening was a really joyous celebration, with all seven Old Testament Readings; bells rung throughout the Gloria which was introduced with a fanfare on the organ; the Blessing of the Font and the Renewal of the Baptismal Promises, the Liturgy of the Eucharist and the joy of having the Blessed Sacrament replaced in the Tabernacle once more.
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