Waiting For Godot

Rarely manage to get any time off in Holy Week, but today Ed and I are going to the theatre to see Ian McKellern and Patrick Stewart (yes, none other than Jean-Luc Picard from the Star Ship Enterprise) in ‘Waiting for Godot’. Our Easter treat.

Tomorrow I’m at a big Maundy Thursday service in the Cathedral, where all the clergy from the diocese renew their ordination vows for another year and oil is blessed for the year. We then collect oil in our own containers and take it back to our parishes for healing, baptisms and the like.

In the afternoon and evening I’m singing with the choir. The afternoon is a rehearsal (and don’t we need it!) and the evening is the first performance – Passiontide music and readings followed by Faure’s requiem. The other performance is on Good Friday evening at a church twenty miles away – our choirs join together for both occasions.

Other than that on Good Friday, it’s a Procession of Witness in the morning (three mile walk carrying a cross – well, somebody will carry it. Hopefully not me!) followed by a short open-air service and with a bit of luck and a prevailing wind, hot cross buns and coffee.

On Good Friday afternoon Nigel the Curate and I and one or two others are presenting a dramatic dialogue of the trial and crucifixion.

So it’s all go – see you all next week!

Have a great Easter.

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