Ship of Fools: St Nicholas of Myra, Brighton, East Sussex, England
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Ship of Fools: St Nicholas of Myra, Brighton, East Sussex, England
Ascension Day service with a beautifully constructed sermon and a eucharist of quiet intimacy
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Trivia question: How many different ways can the words of the third line be rearranged and still convey the same meaning?
Yes, 5pm is early evening, but IIRC from a previous MW Report on this church, St Nicholas has a large congregation, and a fine musical tradition - hence my doubt as to whether this was the principal service on Ascension Day. True, many churches do transfer Ascension Day, as it were, to the following Sunday...
As to your trivial question, I would not dare to be so presumptuous as to interfere with what Gray wrote.
The church website indicates that Sunday 12th May was observed as *Ascension Sunday*, and that they have a weekly Eucharist on Thursdays at 530pm, followed by a time of quiet in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. It may be that I've answered my own question, and that the Eucharist MWed was indeed the only service on Ascension Day itself.
There are, as many people will know, other churches in central Brighton which may well have had a full-on bells-and-smells celebration later in the evening (there was one such at St Martin's at 730pm).
Having said all that, the simple and quiet Eucharist MWed would have suited my minimalist tendencies very well!
And my apologies for using an unexplained term!