I grant you that it is the only day in the week that we work, and I grant you that in normal circumstances the work that we do fills only some of the day. It is properly hard being a cleric - such arduous lives.
Some of you who are reading this and are ordained, or indeed any of you might know what I am referring to. It is that sense of excitement as Sunday approaches. Whether we are leading worship, partaking in it or just observing (itself a useful pastime) - Sundays approach withe a sense of happy anticipation for many of us.
Perhaps it is just me!
It is often that time when our whole (or a larger part of) community gathers together. Yes, it is a time for gossip and that can often permeate the first verse of the first hymn, but it is a time when we gather as the faithful children of Christ to worship and adore. Some of us, if we are of that tradition, may find renewed sustenance in the Holy Matter of the Eucharist, or simply the release of happy chemicals in the blood when we sing for all we are worth. Compelling times, mostly always happy, with friends and those of a like mind - so why wouldn't we look forward to it.
Enjoy your Saturday wherever you are reading this - tomorrow is our day once more.
The trouble with you clerics is that you think that only you clerics connect with this religion stuff. In fact, you are merely the Convener, just an operative. It is we, the great un-be-collared masses, who are the people of God. Without us, you will be, at best, lonesome, at worst, redundant. So, you just make sure that the last hymn is always upbeat or we will go home grumpy and next Sunday we'll be out fishing or checking out the BOGOFs at Tesco. We don't ask for much, but it's OUR Sunday and you'd better not muck it up!
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Your argument takes one logic step too far - I never for a moment said it was an exclusive phenomenon, did I?
ReplyDeleteI am among you as one who serves, and as one who will judge you for shopping at Tesco on a Sunday.
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Is Waitrose OK?
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ReplyDeleteSome Sundays are more stressful than others .. I have two Harvest Festival services in the morning and another in the evening, and before that final one have to help box up several thousand books at the close of an annual secondhand booksale at one of our 11 churches in this Benefice. I also have to collect our organist for the morning services and take her home again, and the same in the evening as her car is off the road at the moment. That's an extra 9 mile round trip. We are certainly called to serve, but some Sundays it's a bit busy in a multi-parish rural Benefice.
ReplyDeleteNot snobby to prefer Waitrose, it tries to be a more ethical retailer. A form of oc co-operative with the staff or partners replacing shareholders.
ReplyDeleteQuoted you this morning: "happy chemicals in the blood" after we'd sung "Come ye thankful people, come" for harvest. Made us all smile! S
ReplyDeleteIt must be a really great feeling.
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