Gift

What a gift of God was the feast of St. Mary Magdalene today. We had to sing on Easter without our organ (damaged in the ice storm back in December) but today, smack tab in the middle of summer, along comes the Easter Gospel again and we got to sing all sorts of Easter music. Sweet!

Of course, it was also a comedy of errors in today's liturgy at late service: sound wouldn't work, offering not picked up from first service and so still in plates, the candles all but burned out because they were out of oil, but despite it all we gathered in the presence of the Lord, heard His Word read and proclaimed, and received the gift of the Risen One's body and blood, which is to say that what really mattered most came through loud and clear.