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Sunday, 19 September 2004 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taimatsuYesterday we had Brendan (our favourite priest) over for dinner to thrash out the details of the funeral service. I wound up bringing the laptop downstairs and taking dictation of bits of the liturgy, so the congregation will have the right responses. It looks like I'm going to be reading the psalm at the vigil (5pm Friday, when the coffin is received into the church, small brief service) which will be Ps.102/103, 'The Lord is compassion and love'. Then at the requiem itself my brothers and I will do the bidding prayers (so we've got to write them!). I'm also designing a papercut as an illustration for the order of service. I have designed one tonight already - it's rectangular, and has the word PEACE in the middle surrounded by leaves and flowers - but I'm not sure it works for the intended use, so I'm still thinking. I'm pleased with it anyway, and might make cards or something to that design. I need to do something smaller, but make the actual size larger so as to cut it very smoothly and carefully with appropriate fine detail. It has to be 100% done by noon tomorrow - deadline, eeep, eep, eeeeep. If anyone has bright ideas for a subject, do let me know. Not praying hands, though, I can't get them looking right.
Tomorrow we're going over to have lunch with one set of godparents; Godparent-Mike is organising the printing of the booklets and prayer cards (I think those are a Catholic thing) and has to have all the documents tomorrow. So then Robert will pick me up from Wargrave (because it's near Reading) and I'll go home with him. We can spend some time together, I can marvel at his HAIR which is apparently SHORTER, and I can go to my new classes on Monday and Tuesday. I'll probably need to come back to Wimbledon on Wednesday or Thursday, because I'm playing the flute during one bit of the funeral service, and the pianist and singers may or may not want to rehearse.
It is going to be such an event. Could be up to 400 people there, or even more. Quite intimidating really. I'm going to have to clear out of my room so my grandmother (paternal) can sleep here. Robert and I will be camping on the floor of Hugo's room, probably...
And finally -
Belated congratulations to Rhiannon, who got married today! Best wishes and every happiness for the future!
Tomorrow we're going over to have lunch with one set of godparents; Godparent-Mike is organising the printing of the booklets and prayer cards (I think those are a Catholic thing) and has to have all the documents tomorrow. So then Robert will pick me up from Wargrave (because it's near Reading) and I'll go home with him. We can spend some time together, I can marvel at his HAIR which is apparently SHORTER, and I can go to my new classes on Monday and Tuesday. I'll probably need to come back to Wimbledon on Wednesday or Thursday, because I'm playing the flute during one bit of the funeral service, and the pianist and singers may or may not want to rehearse.
It is going to be such an event. Could be up to 400 people there, or even more. Quite intimidating really. I'm going to have to clear out of my room so my grandmother (paternal) can sleep here. Robert and I will be camping on the floor of Hugo's room, probably...
And finally -
Belated congratulations to Rhiannon, who got married today! Best wishes and every happiness for the future!
