Labels: animation, environment

6:30 - 6:45 in Nexus from Tues - Fri: A short meditation and reflection on the themes of that day within holy week.

7:30 - 8:30 on Wednesday: A reflective service on the journey of the cross.

Holy Saturday - Nothing but the silence.

Sunday - 4pm Sanctus2nds in Sacred Trinity.

Labels: greenbelt, weather

Labels: environment, event, manchester, spirituality

"Better to sit in the inn and think of church
Than to sit in church and think of the inn."


Like it. Is this the new S1 motto? ;-)

Labels: holiday

I still do heart camping (yes, even though the weather in Snowdonia early on Wednesday morning finally broke our trusty tent. We picked up a "spare" one for parts to compliment/ replace/ repair the broken one on Ebay for £99. Bargain.)

And yes we must be mad, because even on Wednesday night as we were recovering and warming up in the pub, we were planning how and when to get out there sometime and do it all again.

Labels: camping, weather

A fresh look at a familiar story

An exhibition for Holy Week

Sacred Trinity Salford

Open Monday to Friday 12-2pm Saturday 10am-4pm

This is a last call for Sanctus 1's first ever pet service this weekend.

We'll be holding a mass for mammals so pet owners can pray healing on their puppies, budgies and iguanas.

Feel free to dress your pets in anyway you want. We think baby outfits will be popular, as will clown costumes.

We'll erect an image of a saint outside Nexus, so all you need to do is queue with your pets on a lead and receive an animal blessing as you pass the saint.

Of course, this is just silly. No-one would ever really do this.

Would they?

Labels: dogs with flowers in their hair, news, pets

Neil the hippy on the Young Ones once worried that he was "beginning to feel like a Leonard Cohen record, cause nobody ever listens to me".

And then, of course, Shrek came along and everyone got into Hallelujah.

It was the greatest song in the world when I first heard it, and it is the closest I have ever been to liking music that LauraHD likes.

You may think there's the Leonard Cohen version and the Jeff Buckley version. But no. Apparently, the song has a long history.

A looooong history.

To read it all, every last bit of it, every last moment of its life from its early live appearances to its use in Scrubs and the OC, read Clap Clap's exhaustive history of Hallelujah, including graphs for the number of cover versions and the rise and wane of radio plays.

In fact, the graphs are so geeky, I post one of them here... with a few helpful lines added by me...


Okay. Not so helpful.

Labels: leonard cohen, music

"There are beaches that collect mostly rights and other beaches that collect
mostly lefts.

"The winds or the currents sort out left and right footwear."

Apparently true. This is the Tim Burton-esque news that three right feet have been washed onto shore in Canada.

Of course, this forever spoils the Footprints poem:

"Lord, during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don't understand why, when I need you most, you leave me."

God whispered, "My precious child... When you saw only one set of footprints, that was us hopping. I couldn't find a left shoe anywhere."

With apologies to the legendary Tim Vine who has a whole routine around Footprints that will have you laughing your socks off.

As it were.

Labels: feet, news, nonsense