All Hallows Evening Prayer for Wednesday Evening (August 31, 2022) Is Now Online

 

All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city.

I wasn’t invited to many children’s birthday parties when I was a boy. But I do remember one to which I was invited. It was the birthday party of a girl in my class at school. I may have been the only child who was invited. We played together at school.

The girl had a naturally pale complexion and dark hair. She wore a bright red blazer for her birthday, and it contrasted with her pale skin and dark hair.

After tea, we played in her back garden which was not well-kept and had a lot of weeds. I don’t remember much else.

My family would move to Suffolk and there I would make new friends.

On one occasion a friend’s mother invited me to a celery tea. My friend lived on a farm. We ate bread and butter and celery and drank tea. It was fresh celery which my friend’s parents must have grown themselves in their kitchen garden. Crisp stalks of celery, dipped in salt.

It was a rather spartan meal, unlike the teas that I ate at home, but my friend and his family considered the celery to be a real treat.

Throughout life we receive all kinds of invitations. Some we may decline without much thought. There is one invitation, however, we should consider most carefully. It is most important invitation that we will receive in our entire life.

The Scripture reading for this Wednesday is Luke 14:15-24 Parable of the Great Feast.

The homily is titled “An Invitation to a Feast, an Invitation to a Kingdom.”

The link to this Wednesday evening’s service is—

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May this service be a blessing to you.