This was a very different Good Friday to normal as there was no children's workshop, procession of the cross or children's ecumenical service in Winterslow - instead all these activities were taking place in Alderbury this year. Sara is normally involved in the children's workshops but she has now resigned as one of the Junior Church Leaders. I went over to Alderbury for the Good Friday liturgy with Debbie and we caught the end of the children's service which had been taken by Elizabeth. It seemed lively and was well attended. After the children and parents had departed we sat and listened to Jeremy Davies give a homily on Alexander Pope's poem - "The Essay of Man" which was quite erudite. This was followed by the Good Friday Liturgy in which I and Debbie robed in our black cassocks and I played the part of Pilate (for the second year running) in the Passion Gospel. The service again was rather Roman in it structure and liturgy with three stations of the cross and prostrations before the wooden cross. Back home, after the service, Sara and I chilled out and went to bed relatively early.
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