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1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556\date{2025-12-28T02:44:49Z}\import{table-macros}\def\percent{\startverb%\stopverb }\parent{loc-000P}\title{1st Sunday after Christmas 2025}\tag{cmc}\author{liamoc}\quote{Deus in loco sancto suo: Deus, qui inhabitáre facit unánimes in domo: ipse dabit virtútem et fortitúdinem plebi suæ. \br Dum médium siléntium tenérent ómnia, et nox in suo cursu médium iter habéret, omnípotens sermo tuus, Dómine, de cælis a regálibus sédibus venit. }\p{I got up early to attend the BCP service at [St. John's](https://www.stjohnscanberra.org/), but was disappointed to see that the service was following the APBA and not the BCP. I think the BCP is only used after January. Furthermore, even by APBA standards the Eucharistic prayer was rushed and insufficiently reverent. Oh well, it is a lovely little church:}\figure{ \<html:img>[loading]{lazy}[width]{250px}[src]{\route-asset{assets/stjohns1.jpeg}}{} \<html:img>[loading]{lazy}[width]{250px}[src]{\route-asset{assets/stjohns2.jpeg}}{} \<html:img>[loading]{lazy}[width]{250px}[src]{\route-asset{assets/stjohns3.jpeg}}{} \figcaption{Church of St. John the Baptist, Reid.}}
\p{Then I walked to [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au), and volunteered at the last minute to cantor for this choirless Sunday mass. I sang an old favourite of mine a capella: [The truth sent from above](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xZ_qfyApc) (famously used by Ralph Vaughan Williams in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols):}\quote{ \poem{ \line{This is the truth sent from above,} \line{The truth of God, the God of love,} \line{Therefore don't turn me from your door} \line{But hearken all, both rich and poor.\br} \line{The first thing which I do relate} \line{Is that God did Man create;} \line{The next thing which to you I'll tell:} \line{Woman was made with Man to dwell.\br} \line{Then after this 'twas God's own choice} \line{To place them both in Paradise,} \line{There to remain from Evil free,} \line{Except they ate of such a tree.\br} \line{Thus we were heirs to endless woes} \line{Till God the Lord did interpose,} \line{And so a promise soon did run} \line{That he would redeem us by his Son. \br} \line{And at this season of the year,} \line{Our blest Redeemer did appear.} \line{Here he did live, and here did preach,} \line{Any many thousands he did teach.\br} \line{Thus he in Love to us behaved,} \line{To show us how we must be saved,} \line{And if you too want to know the way} \line{Be pleased to hear what He did say.} } }