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This morning we had a combined service instead of the two normal ones (everyone's a bit busy at church for some odd reason) and I was, for the first time, Thurifer.
Which probably means very little to a number of you *g*
If you ever go to a church that's relatively high (meaning lots of ceremony) and the have incense then the Thurifer is the person in charge of the incense. Which is great fun if slightly scary because carrying around burning coals at the end of a long chain is slightly odd (or as my father kept insisting someone had set fire to my handbag *rolls eyes*)
I think it went well, as someone pointed out beforehand the whole servie was topsy turvey so nobody would have noticed mistakes anyway! I do however now smell of incense despite having had a shower... my hair, my skin, my clothes, everything! Mind you, at least I like the smell!
Had lunch with friends then did a few more bits of decorating (fairy lights all over my room) and now it's time for Tea (the meal and the drink) before some of us head of for the Festival of Lessons and Carols.
Dad can't come (if he even wanted to) as he's got to go and find miretne whose flying back from Germany... rather worried that he fog may cause havoc but there you are.
*uses Advent 4 icon for the day it works*
Which probably means very little to a number of you *g*
If you ever go to a church that's relatively high (meaning lots of ceremony) and the have incense then the Thurifer is the person in charge of the incense. Which is great fun if slightly scary because carrying around burning coals at the end of a long chain is slightly odd (or as my father kept insisting someone had set fire to my handbag *rolls eyes*)
I think it went well, as someone pointed out beforehand the whole servie was topsy turvey so nobody would have noticed mistakes anyway! I do however now smell of incense despite having had a shower... my hair, my skin, my clothes, everything! Mind you, at least I like the smell!
Had lunch with friends then did a few more bits of decorating (fairy lights all over my room) and now it's time for Tea (the meal and the drink) before some of us head of for the Festival of Lessons and Carols.
Dad can't come (if he even wanted to) as he's got to go and find miretne whose flying back from Germany... rather worried that he fog may cause havoc but there you are.
*uses Advent 4 icon for the day it works*