'If ye love me . . . '

No time for much blogging for obvious reasons but I hope you enjoy this beautiful rendition of Thomas Tallis' 'If ye love me, keep my commandments'. It's a lovely haunting background for meditation during this evening's vigil with Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane.

We began our preparation for the Great Feast of Easter in earnest last night when we attended the Chrism Mass at the cathedral. It's always a very moving experience to see so many of our diocesan clergy gathered together renewing the commitment that they made at Ordination before the Bishop and all those assembled from across the diocese.

The blessing of the oils including the Chrism also makes a great impact and adds an extra dimension to the liturgies in our own parish when the oils are used and we are reminded of this Mass where they were blessed by the Bishop before being distributed to the Deaneries and on to individual parishes.