By fate we were late
We entered Christmas
slightly in a demur and sober mood, crashing out the night before in the living
room, I on the so-called sofa-bad hewn out of rock that each shift was a creak
in body ache allegro, you would find more comfort in wincing. He on the rug
that sheds its thread at peak alopecia, and I doubt it was any more
comfortable, but when I woke up in the witching hour, I got both of us to the
bedroom and the comfort of the bed.
The Christmas service
had to be registered for as the church was only going to admit 250 worshippers due to Coronavirus precautions. It was to start at 10:00 AM and for all our early wakefulness and preparations,
we arrived as they were finishing the processional hymn and found seats to the
front left nave with a good view of the altar and the celebrants.
In the humanity of
our frailties
The president was Reverend Michael Lapsley,
whose storied life of priesthood and social justice activism included having
both his hands blown off by a letter bomb sent to him by the Apartheid regime.
The atmosphere was lively and solemn, the choir in full angelic voice
especially for the Latin recitals.
The Sung Eucharist is
quite conservative and traditional that when censer was filled, I thought of it
as God’s shisha, for it smoked up like one was observing a full burnt offering,
a sweet savour to the Lord as the Bible has usefully described that Old
Testament sacrament. I could do without finding fault in things as the pamphlet
had mean for meek in one of the carols and the Gospel was read from John when
it indicated Luke, the Latin for heavens is Caeli, but it had Coeli, amongst
other things.
At the end of the service, we posed
for some pictures before stepping out to greet the ministers, going to
breakfast, crowd watching at V&A Waterfront before returning home for
Christmas dinner. It has been a wonderful and beautiful day; I hope you all had
a beautiful merry Christmas.
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