ROGATION 2012
We were so blessed with the weather for our outdoor service ‘on the move’ at Littley Green.
We had once again joined with the Gt Waltham & Ford End parish for the traditional blessing of the crops. We took the 4 elements and at suitable places stopped to sing, pray and listen in praise of God’s gifts of FIRE (we lit a small fire): EARTH (beside a field of oil-seed rape and we ate parsley and bread): AIR (beside a WW11 pill box where the horrors of war were remembered and the free air thanked for) and WATER (where from the river water was taken and blessings were marked on foreheads and a flagon of beer was taken and drunk before we returned to the Green for our final song and prayer. Many of us then went to The Compasses for our lunch taken in the sunshine!
FIRE
EARTH eating bread & parsley
The musicians filled the AIR with sound
WATER. We blessed the water
We drank the beer made from WATER
