| There was a most successful gathering in Ibrox Parish Church last Thursday as St Leo’s Parish, Kinning Park Parish and Ibrox Parish celebrated the annual ‘ecumenical Christian Passover’ for 2011. Rev Elizabeth Spence led us through a service punctuated with hymns and psalms, prayer, nibbles of Matzos and herbs and glasses of red wine and together we achieved a sense of the ageless ritual which we were celebrating. It was both prayerful and yet informally familial, evocative of the grandeur of the history of salvation and at the same time warmly alive and of the present.The music began with ‘All people’ and included ‘The Canticle of Moses, the Taize ‘Jesus Remember me’ ‘Behold the amazing gift of love’, the chorus of ‘Blessed be God’ (Nazareth), and Crimond and there was a lovely blessing taken from the 2nd century ‘Didache’ or ‘Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (as it is called) |
