CLICK HERE for the Saint Laika podcast for the Feast of Stephen. A short service of holy communion with a few carefully selected tunes. Let it soothe away the excesses of yesterday. Play it the background whilst you tuck into your cold cuts. Or, like Stephen, get down on your knees and gaze into heaven at the Word made Flesh raised bodily to the right hand of God. It's up to you.
‘Mark my footsteps my good page
Tread thou in them boldly
Thou will find the winter’s rage
Freeze thy blood less co-o-oldly.’
In his master’s steps he trod
Where the snow lay dinted.
Heat was in the very sod
Which the saint had printed.
Therefore, Christian [folk] be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing:
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find ble-es-sing.
You can be a bit of a very sod yourself sometimes, JCF. When you’re in the mood 🙂