Thursday, April 13, 2006

O Lord please bless this sticky bun

http://www.churchnewspaper.com/news.php?read=on&number_key=5815&title=O%20Lord%20please%20bless%20this%20sticky%20bun

[The Church of England Newspaper] April 14, 2006--Most people put butter on their hot-cross buns and eat them, but not an Essex bishop who instead has taken the rather more unusual option of blessing one. Taking part in the centenary celebration of a bizarre Easter tradition in an Essex pub, the Bishop of Bradwell, the Rt Revd Laurie Green, blessed a hot-cross bun before hanging it on a nail above the bar at the Bell pub in Horndon-on-the Hill, where he lives.

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