Service: 9 of 9 Time: 0:30 Total: 4:00 Grand total: 17:22 Crew: Altar: Fr T and two acolytes (the young man who has now served All The Services, and my godson’s brother). Choir: SSSSSAAT, so I asked Ukrainian Soprano to sing the alto part because she can, though it doesn’t really suit her voice. Congregation:
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Christ is risen!
Service: 8 of 9 Time: 3:30 Total: 3:30 Grand total: 16:52 Crew: Altar: Fr T, Hypodiakon and five acolytes (two young men, an older man, two boys aged about 12). Choir: SSSSAATB (Baritone had volunteered to help out the Serbians in his hometown who appeared to otherwise have no singers at all, but we had
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Time: 0:25 Total: 3:40 Grand total: 18:05 Crew: Altar: Fr T, Fr Deacon V (when I said to him later “I missed you in the night!” he said “I can’t be in two places at once” and we agreed that he wasn’t St Nicholas of Myra) Choir: SSSAAT (someone: “We have no bass!” me: “Then we’ll do
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Time: 3:15 Total: 3:15 Grand total: 17:45 Crew: Altar: Fr T, two adult acolytes, two boy acolytes. One was the boy who had been standing on the sidelines looking eager. I think he either volunteered or (more likely) got drafted. Choir: SSSAATBB (which seems to be everybody at the moment, except the young soprano who begged off to
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When I was thirteen I was the only person in my family who liked church. My parents were lapsed Lutherans and I was in Lutheran catechism class, having been evicted from the children’s choir a year earlier because I turned alto. (So did my friend, and she and I were the mainstay of the children’s
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Time: 0:25 Total: 3:25 Grand total: 17:40 Congregation: 25 or so. Daughter alerted me to a woman who had come in from the street who had noticed “there was something going on” and wanted to know what it was, and she stayed until the end. Crew: Altar: Fr T and a hypodiakon. Choir: SSSAAATT, sorely
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Time: 3:00 Grand total: 17:15 Congregation: Many. Lots. Crew: Altar: Fr T, one hypodiakon, 3 adult acolytes, 1 boy acolyte (who, according to the hypodiakon, was asleep most of the time) Choir: Everybody, except Intermittent Bass who was probably singing in Nijmegen. We got compliments for the singing, and a toast from Fr T at
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Time: 0:25 Total: 3:25 Grand total: 17:40 Congregation: about 30, including several people who hadn’t been able to come in the night and some stray people from the local running event Crew: Altar: Fr T and both hypodiakons Choir: everybody, even one alto’s student daughter who sings soprano when she happens to be here This
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Time: 3:00 Grand total: 17:15 Congregation: lots at the procession (we saw the tail-end through the street from the next corner), dwindled to about 40 at Liturgy Crew: Altar: Fr T, one hypodiakon directing inexperienced adult acolyte (his second time to serve) and ditto 7-year-old acolyte Choir: SSSAAATB at Matins, one soprano and one alto
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Time: 0:27 Total: 3:54 Grand total: 18:14 Congregation: about 40, lots of people who couldn’t come in the night for various reasons, also people who just wanted more. Crew: Altar: Fr T, one hypodiakon, 22-year-old acolyte. No boys, sadly, and Fr R had gone to Rotterdam to have dinner with friends. Choir: everybody. We don’t
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