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