Start of Advent

contrabordun · Post by **contrabordun** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:58 am

musicus wrote:I am Old Pharosian. So where did I go to school?

All together now .... If you don't know...how should we?

mcb · Post by **mcb** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:10 am

Ancient Alexandria?

M.

VML · Post by **VML** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:05 pm

Or Dungeness? :wink:

musicus · Post by **musicus** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:56 pm

LOL !

mcb is wittier, but VML is very close* - Dover, actually (named after the pharos or Roman lighthouse in the grounds of Dover Castle).

Anyway, enough of this! Back to the topic...

* VML might be being witty too, but I don't get it.

VML · Post by **VML** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:01 pm

It's the lighthouse connection: Dungeness has two, one that the sea left behind, and the other that was a focal point in my childhood just along the coast.

Do we still have an Advent connection?!...

V

Tsume Tsuyu · Post by **Tsume Tsuyu** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:34 pm

VML wrote:Do we still have an Advent connection?!...

Well, if you take the A of Ancient (or Alexandria), the D of Dungeness and your own V, we're half way to being back on topic! :-)

asb · Post by **asb** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:08 am

VML wrote:It's the lighthouse connection: Dungeness has two, one that the sea left behind, and the other that was a focal point in my childhood just along the coast.

Do we still have an Advent connection?!...

V

On the basis that Dungeness is not a million miles from my parish, and that last Sunday's "Children's Mass" I had to endure had not a single Advent hymn, probably not!

gwyn · Post by **gwyn** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:41 am

ASB said:

last Sunday's "Children's Mass" I had to endure had not a single Advent hymn

It's appalling, isn't it? There's nothing kids enjoy more than preparing for something big. A missed opportunity indeedy.

BTW, I think Advent begins at Sundown on the eve of the 1st Sunday.

A Blue Peter presenter told his viewers that Advent would begin on 1st of December, BBC Breakfast did the same.

docmattc · Post by **docmattc** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:33 am

I have to play at a primary school advent service this evening. I had hoped to spend my whole musical career without ever accompanying anyone singing "The animals went in twoosies, twoosies, the elephant and the kangaroosies, roosies". Sadly this ambition has now been shattered :shock:

mcb · Post by **mcb** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:03 am

docmattc wrote:"The animals went in twoosies, twoosies, the elephant and the kangaroosies, roosies".

It's a great song for kids, though, especially with the actions. :-)

I like the kangaroosies best. And "Rise and shine and give God the glory" (Isaiah 60:1) is a perfect refrain for Advent - fits well with Sunday's reading from Baruch, for instance.

Somehow I've neglected to programme it for my choir this Sunday, though. :-)

(But come to think of it, I have performed the actions in our cathedral, at a mass for the HCPT a few years ago.)

M.

presbyter · Post by **presbyter** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:52 pm

musicus wrote:(named after the pharos or Roman lighthouse in the grounds of Dover Castle)

sounds more Greek than Roman to me - and why would the Romans want to attract ships to the walls of a castle? Was Molesworth (of the upper third) sent to set this beacon ablaze in order to lure cross-channel ferries onto the rocks so that the lower sixth could benefit from duty free contraband? (shades of 'Whisky Galore')

Or perhaps it is an unfinished primitive mega/mono-lithic colossal Advent Wreath stand ...... provision for three purple and one pink lights?

So what went on in Advent in this Dover school?

presbyter · Post by **presbyter** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:55 pm

mcb wrote: I have performed the actions in our cathedral

Could you remind us what they are? I've not done them for years - and have a sneaking suspicion that they are beneficial aerobic exercise.

mcb · Post by **mcb** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:04 am

Far too many to spell them all out, mainly involving miming elements of the Noah's Ark story (for elephants you wave one arm as if it's an elephant's trunk, for kanagaroosies you hold your two hands in front of you like kangaroo's paws and jump up and down with both feet). The refrain is mostly thigh-slapping and hand-clapping and arm-waving, with more figurative mime on the words children and Lord.

I trust your appetite has been whetted. Maybe we could make this the subject of a workshop at next year's Summer School? :-)

M.

organist · Post by **organist** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:57 am

Summer school with kangaroosies - perfect for the concert mcb! Don't miss the superb St John's advent service on Radio 3 BBC website - it's only on until Sunday I think. Lucky you edbowie attending York Minster services! Isn't it wonderful how "Wachet auf" and "Lo he comes" immediately evoke Advent. And Chris Walker's "Stay awake" - perfect for kids but alas not good for insomniacs!

TimSharrock · Post by **TimSharrock** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:32 am

organist wrote:Summer school with kangaroosies - perfect for the concert mcb!

MCB's rendition is great fun

, though it has been some years since I have seen it...

Society of Saint Gregory

Start of Advent

Old Pharos...ian

an ambition dashed

Re: an ambition dashed

Re: an ambition dashed

Start of Advent

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