Hallelujah Chorus for Trappists

I was going to have a day off the Blog today, enjoying worshipping in Church as a member of the congregation on a glorious, beautiful Sunday evening. My tweepcount reached 1742 this morning and I had posted the première of Handel’s Messiah as my historical fact. Then The Revd David Lewis sent me something on Twitter that I simply have to record for posterity — the Hallelujah Chorus performed by a choir subect to a vow of silence. Perfick.

PS The fact that David seems to have managed to get this to me from the floor of the Baptist Assembly in Bournemouth only addds to its essential wonderfulness.

Tamil Santa says...

Get your laughing gear round this — Tamil carol singers from Bangalore Cathedral, and, towards the end, Lucy & I pitching in with everyone else and making complete prats of oruselves.

As we lumber through the jollifications we all need to remember we can't actually make complete prats of ourselves with real friends, because they are our real friends. It also suggests what I've long suspected, that as we learn from submariners and children's entertainers, living is for people who are into joy and life, not amour-propre.

Well, we've got twelve in to share Christmas, and will aim for more unbridled joy than standard issue for the English home counties. We are delighted to share warm memories of friends in India, as we wish everyonem, wherever you are, however warm or wet, a truly joyful Christmas.

Midsummer inspiration for Christian Rockers everywhere

I'll be interested to see what reactions there are to this guy, who's doing his show on the Edinburgh fringe. At first sight this looks like the contemporary equivalent of those Beyond the Fringe send-ups of Anglican public school worship we were all brought up on.

I wonder...