The Bream Magazine, May 1867 (one page only)
THE BREAM MAGAZINE
FLOWERING SUNDAY.
The annual custom of remembering our dead, and signifying our faith in
their resurrection which the dressing of their graves with flowers
on Palm Sundays really means, was well observed. Many persons put their
flowers on the Saturday evening, and all had finished before service-time
on the Sunday morning. There was not so many spring flowers out as
we had expected, but there was a. good and tasteful arrangement of
them, and very few of the dead were passed over unremembered. We are
happy to say that there were but two or three paper flowers to be seen,
and another year we may hope to be without any at all. The custom is
very old—much older than the invention of artificial flowers;
so that the use of paper flowers is a new-fangled as well as an unmeaning
thing.
On many of our graves flowers are now growing; it is well that such graves
be kept free from weeds, and clipped when the grass is too long—(some
shears may be
borrowed from the Parsonage for this purpose); then the Churchyard, with very
little trouble to each person interested in it, will remind us of Our Saviour’s
burial-place, a garden.
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The Good Friday Afternoon. Service, in spite of heavy rain, was well attended
by the children, whose answers to the questions put to them were satisfactory,
and made without shyness. This encourages the introduction of a similar service
occasionally on Sundays, as the Church intends should be the case; see the
Rubric at the end of the Catechism in the Prayer Book. Accordingly, when the
third Sunday service is begun, and while it is continued, we propose to employ
the afternoon of the first Sunday in the month in this manner :—Litany
and questioning of the children at 3, when the congregation will kindly allow
them to occupy the seats in front of the Lectern, and the usual full service
will on these days be at 6; on others, 6.30.On theseSundays we must beg that
no infants be brought for Holy Baptism.
C. W.
B.A.G.
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