Happy Easter season to all my readers.
I’m taking a short break for the weekend and will see you again on the other side!
Building a Cairn of "Small Stones" and other random musings
05 Apr 2023 4 Comments
in aros Tags: aros, Easter, weekend break
Happy Easter season to all my readers.
I’m taking a short break for the weekend and will see you again on the other side!
25 May 2022 3 Comments
in aros, poems Tags: aros, Easter, Maundy Thursday, memory, school uniform, St Alban's Cathedral, the Queen
Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, is when the sovereign hands out specially minted coins to selected people – one man and one woman for each year of his or her reign. It is distributed at a different cathedral each year. Symbolic of giving alms to the poor it was traditionally given to poor parishioners of the diocese but usually nowadays it is presented to those who have given long-term service to their church or community on the recommendation of the clergy.
Here is my poem from the poetry group’s Platinum Jubilee collection on the subject, a recollection from my childhood:
Maundy Thursday 1957 The year St Alban's Cathedral was the venue for the distribution of the Maundy Money by the Queen. An incomplete memory and questions linger; I mean why was I at school that day so near to Easter? Surely it should have been a holiday! I do not remember the weather though I think the day was fine and clear. Nor do I remember what she wore, you couldn't really see that well as she sat in the car. The brief memory of an eight year old; I recall we stood in line, beside the road along her route, in our school uniforms (brown and gold), waving out flags and cheering while the Queen was driven slowly past, on her way through our small town, sitting in the back of her black limousine, smiling and waving.
30 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in aros, Elfje Tags: aros, Easter, Elfje, winter
Easter
arrives early
this year, yet
Winter’s grip does not
relent.
31 Mar 2013 6 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, Easter, eternity, quotations, resurrection, spring-time, time
“On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.”
— Douglas Horton
“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in spring-time.”
— Martin Luther
12 Feb 2013 1 Comment
in aros Tags: aros, Christian, church, days, Easter, lengthen, Lent, Pancake Day, pancakes, Shrove Tuesday, spring
Shrove
Tuesday, Pancake
Day. Lent begins.
The days lengthen towards
Easter.
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Lent: An Old English word meaning ‘lengthen’. It simply refers to the fact that the days get longer during Spring. This was adopted by the Christian church to refer to the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. On Shrove Tuesday people would attend church to be ‘shriven’ of their sins before a period of fasting leading up to Easter. All foods forbidden during ‘Lent’, which begins on Ash Wednesday (tomorrow) would be eaten up beforehand so the custom of making up eggs and milk into pancakes came about.
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08 Apr 2012 4 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, Easter, Lord, quotation
“The Lord of all things lives anew
and all his works are rising too.
Hosanna in excelsis.”
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Lines from an Easter song I learned at school.
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