WHERE THE CROWNS OF ANGELS GLOW

 

If I am the first of us to go

I will wait for you in the place

Where the crowns of Angels glow

 

If I go first because I lost the fight

I will be waiting with the Father

Where souls emerge into the light

 

If I am the first of us to go there

I will await you in lush meadows

Where sweet perfume fills the air

 

If I go first and leave your company

We will meet again in paradise

And be together for all eternity

 

If I am the first to go, allay your fears

I will be waiting in the place

Where God has banished tears

 

If I go before you and we must part

I will wait for you in heaven

Where sweet music soothes the heart

 

If I am first to go, we will meet again

In a far better place than this

Where God has banished pain

 

If I go first through the eternal door

You will find me with the angels

Where suffering is no more

 

If I am first to go by days or years

You will find me waiting there

Far beyond this vale of tears

THE FEAST DAY OF SAINT DAVID

 

The feast day of Saint David

Is Wales’s National Day

When the Welsh people

Celebrate Saint David's Day

SAINT DAVID

 

Saint David was born in the 5th century

A scion of the royal house of Ceredigion,

And founded a Celtic Monastic order,

At Glyn Rhosyn, the Vale of Roses,

Which became an important Christian shrine

Where St David's Cathedral stands today

QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY

 

The second day of Shrovetide

Shrove Sunday or Quinquagesima

Celebrated in the Christian church

As the fiftieth day before Easter

EGG SATURDAY

 

The first day of Shrovetide

Is Shrove or Egg Saturday

An Oxfordshire tradition

Sometimes called egg feast day

SHROVETIDE

 

Shrovetide begins on Egg Saturday

Heralding the coming of lent

And deciding what to give up

Is normally the way it is spent

ASH WEDNESDAY FIRST DAY OF LENT

 

The palm branches blessed on Palm Sunday,

Are the following year, burnt and blessed again

And placed on the heads of the participants

To the accompaniment of the familiar refrain

"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”

And the Lenten season has begun once again

ASH WEDNESDAY

 

Ashes are placed on the heads

Of worshipers on Ash Wednesday,

Either by being sprinkled or

More often the traditional way

By being marked as a visible cross

On their foreheads on the day

SHROVE TUESDAY

 

Since before the Christian era

Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day

Was celebrated far and wide

And was originally a pagan holiday

 

Changing seasons was a struggle

Between Jarilo the God of brightness

Vegetation, fertility and springtime

And the evil spirits of cold and darkness

 

So they had to help the God Jarilo

And victory meant spring had begun

So they cooked and ate pancakes

Hot and round symbolizing the sun

IT’S LENT ONCE AGAIN

 

It’s Lent once again

That time of year

To de-clutter, A time

To tidy and clear

But it’s not the time

To tidy the garden shed

The garage or the loft

Or even under the bed

Lent is the time when

Spring cleaning begins

When we cleanse our souls

And wash away our sins

FAT TUESDAY

 

Pancake Day is known as Fat Tuesday

And is the last day before the Lenten season

It was a feast day and it was the practise of

Them stuffing their faces that is the reason

PANCAKE DAY

 

For the world at large shrove Tuesday

Precedes Ash Wednesday

For my unfortunate family stove Tuesday

Precedes trash Wednesday

THE FATHER IS WITH US EVERY MOMENT

The father is with us every moment 

Of every hour both day and night

Over every continent and island

He keeps us in His wondrous light 

WE GIVE OUR PRAISE WITHOUT CONDITION

 

We give our praise without condition

Given freely to the Lord on high

We sing it to the highest heaven

Our hands held reaching to the sky

ON CANDLEMAS DAY

 

The winter will not come again

If Candlemas day has cloud or rain

But if the day is bathed in sun

Then the spring hasn’t yet begun

CANDLEMAS DAY

 

If Candlemas is sunny and bright

We will again feel Winters bite.

If Candlemas brings cloudy skies

Spring will be an early surprise