Holy Week

 Wednesday Blackfriars Smitf. Nice chat to Jane Crone CAFOD East Anglia. Sisters of St Andrew. Meditatio. Repair shop X 2. Played piano and jigsaw. Final session of Bread for the world and Lent course. Yet again Michael bowled a googly and did not address the wonderings at all.  Lovely singing. Call my agent. 

Maundy Thursday up late. SMITF. Bit of Chrism from Southwark cathedral. Excellent lecture on the Arena chapel Padua. Adam Field and William Collinson at Portsmouth. Sam Wells at SMITF with choral scholars. Finished Michael's book. Mass from Belmont Abbey. To Caterham and the simple service went well. Jerry quoted Go to dark Gethsamene in his sermon. I played Wordsworth on the tune. 

Good Friday. SMITF Morning song Walton Litany. Acton children's passion very well done and year 5 were great. Wintershall 2019 from Trafalgar Square. Left 12.45 service at 2 reproaches and To mock your reign. Excellent radio 4 programme on Rembrandt Ecce homo with Lucy Winkett and Neil MacGregor. Repair shop X 2. Daniel Hyde conducting BBC forces RVW Dona nobis pacem and worked on jigsaw. Masterchef for Liz. 

Saturday 10 am Readings from the cathedral. The readings and the Cardinal's homily quoting George Mackay Brown were beautiful but spoken psalms and Latin plainchant? Nazareth walk St Pancras with Geoff. Richard nearly got arrested in the station. Blackfriars Tenebrae . Fr Timothy reading.  St Matthew Passion conducted by Klemperer with which I grew up, Recorded in 1961 most of the participants must be no longer with us. I never thought I would sing with the Philharmonia chorus. Some tempi especially the chorales seem ponderous but by no means all. Great singers. Drawing and another layer of charcoal. Easter Vigil from Belmont Abbey website. The Exultet in full! 4 readings and sung psalms. Stunning organ at the end.