Blooming annoying, the whole Community being woken up like that.
Beaker Folk of more regular habits may not be aware that we have two dedicated prayer groups. The Late Night Prayer Group meets after Filling up of Beakers to pray for the good of the community as a whole. While the Early Morning Prayer Group, its "lark" equivalent, meets before Pouring out of Beakers with the same purpose.
Of course with these short nights, the groups' meeting times move closer together. And the late night bunch went on a bit late last night - right up to the point, at 4am, when the early morning crowd arrived intending to have an extra-long pray for the Festival of Stones and Tea Lights tomorrow.
Well, when two groups of devout but sleep-deprived pilgrims meet up in the small hours in the same space, a kind of spiritual Pauli Principle occurs. So a massive fight broke out for possession of the Moot House.
Anyway, we've treated all the song book and prayer bead injuries. And they're all going to bed. I guess they need to put in a few more prayers for world peace tomorrow.
I have always thought that prayer after last light and before first light defeats the purpose of the Book of Common Prayer Morning and Evening Prayer. When such excellent prayers are available, which cover all contingencies, would you need to pray 'outside the box' to use Post-Modern terminology.
ReplyDeleteNo, stick to the Prayer Book and all will be well.