Saturday we hosted our Marriage Encounter circle's family Christmas party. What a great time. I was so glad mrs tg felt up to keeping this commitment; the group would have understood had she opted out, but it was good for us to get together with them. We ended up with about 35 people here.
The group traditionally holds a Christmas pageant during the party, with the adults reading the various parts, the children dressing up, and everybody singing the hymns. Due to the dearth of girls in attendance, our 3-year-old granddaughter ended up portraying Mary. She had a blast! She loves to dress up, and we had to be patient for her to be ready to remove her costume afterward. Most everyone left soon thereafter, but a few of us braved the chilly night air to go caroling outside some of our neighbors' houses. What a great evening!
Sunday, Jubilee was at one of the parishes in the northern reaches of archdiocese for an Advent Evensong program. It was a beautiful, newly expanded facility. As we worked through our positioning beforehand, we encountered a serious feedback problem due to the placement of one speaker in their sound system. Fortunately, we were finally able to get the sound where we wanted it, augmenting the natural acoustics with one mic that pulled double duty for soloists. I served as lay presider for the service, which provided a rare opportunity to listen to the group sing. How uplifting! The parish immediately tried to get us for The Way of The Cross for this coming Lent, suggesting that their usual (if non-traditional) Tuesday stations wouldn't conflict with any of our existing Friday and Sunday commitments. The thing is, we're all volunteers with other obligations, some in full-time or other volunteer music ministry, many of us in day jobs, not to mention our primary ministry: our families. As much as we'd love to go back to minister to this remote part of the archdiocese, we're fully booked for Lent, 2009. Looks as if we may have our first 2010 gig lined up already, though!
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