24 thoughts on “Easter Lilies and Ringing Bells”

    1. This is a great idea, Gallivanta! What time? If I don’t know the song, I will sing Christ the Lord is Risen Today, the Charles Wesley song of my childhood.

      1. Hah! And guess what was playing on the National Radio broadcast of the Easter Service? Christ the Lord is Risen Today. So I sang along loudly, and out of tune.

      2. Good stuff! I shall think of you and Aggie when I am belting it out – off tune, of course – in the morning. And ringing the bells too!

    1. I guess we were both singing today. Is your voice off-key like mine or can you carry a tune? We had a great Easter Sunday and the bishop gave the homily, so we had one female priest and one female bishop leading the service- unthinkable not so long ago! Then our priest sprinkled us all with water from a branch dipped in a big pan – you never saw so many people hiding from being sprinkled! I had to smile.

  1. I do ok singing, I get off key on the high notes! We did early morning Mass, only one priest and I was surprised, the church was full with a lot of people standing. We had the same thing going on, the ladies did not want to get sprinkled 🙂

    1. Smart ladies! My friends in the US and Canada are all reporting a similar thing regarding the church being full: they say it’s a lot more people than a usual Easter. What do you think is the reason?

  2. Cynthia, I like you all the more for mentioning how you love to sing (and not necessarily in key). I can relate to that. It’s also nice to see inside the church you wrote about in your memoir.

    Blessings ~ Wendy ❀

    1. How kind of you to say so, Wendy! It’s a great church and I feel greatly privileged to belong to it (and it to me!) Hope your writing is going full-speed ahead.

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