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I have written intercessions in less than half an hour. This is, worryingly, an achievement by my standards (and is also not counting the procrastination time, earlier, but I will make up for that by doing Greek tomorrow afternoon, and also, I blame the heat, though it may actually be fanfic's fault).

Of course, if you can't write prayers for the feast of S.S. Peter and Paul you're doing pretty badly because it is something of a gimmee, but still.

On an unrelated note, what is Tumblr, and why?

Off out for the ... well, for the afternoon and evening, rather than the day, by this stage. Taking notebook, because I keep being attacked by plot bunnies and forgetting them by the time I reach a computer/ paper.

Am still trying to think of suitable bits of novels which could be discussed in a parish reflection group - that is, passages that touch on questions of faith or theology in a creative way. Virtually everything I have thought of is from "geeky" source material (the only exception being Ashworth's discussion about creation and the problem of evil in Absolute Truths, and that's a very tenuous claim to the mainstream*). I can't decide whether this is because SF/ F is just plain better at dealing with big metaphysical questions, or whether it reveals that I don't read enough litfic. Probably both.

But much as I'd like to discuss reading Paladin of Souls from a Christian perspective, I think I'd have to choose my audience pretty carefully (i.e. do it on LJ/DW?); Harry Dresden meeting an archangel is probably pushing it as far as it will go.

Suggestions gratefully received.

* Or possibly some Sayers, but that's still genre fic, really.

Twice a term the local (C of E) comp comes in for a Eucharist. On the whole it's a very good thing; they have an enthusiastic choir run by the obligatory Eccentric Music Teacher (a rabid Scots nationalist from Glasgow, who resembles an even-more-run-to-seed Francis Rossi, and is never seen out of a saltire tie), the kids are generally well behaved and attentive, and today some of them had produced a slideshow on the Ascension and Pentecost using the Brick New Testament. Also, they raised a good deal of money, to judge by the weight of the offertory plates, for a teenage cancer charity.

The one difficulty is that it's almost impossible to work out how many people are going to receive communion.

Which leads, inevitably, to Tree and Third Virger standing in the Vestry, desperately trying to consume 160 wafers. I do sometimes wish that the bread-of-heaven-containing-in-itself-all-sweetness tasted more as if it did... (though the worst bit's the dry mouth, I think.)

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