Easter Sunday turned out another beautiful day with sunshine and blue sky, and I ended up attending today's church service too, in the same church as on Good Friday (cf. previous post). The church was not full, but there were more people attending than it seems from this photo... I arrived in good time and I snapped the photo before the service started. The choir was singing today as well, but now accompanied by both organ and piano (in contrast to Good Friday, when they sang acapella).
If I'm to go by my blog, it may have been as long ago as 2017 that I last went to church for Easter. (During the pandemic, 2020-22, I know I did not.) Funny, though: I note that it was also at Easter 2017 that I was last in the process of changing laptops. Then it was Windows 10 that made me change from an even older one to the one I'm now referring to as "old"... A now I'm dealing with Win 11... (Wondering if it will be Windows 12 in 2029?)
That is a beautiful church. So bright and cheerful inside.
ReplyDeleteJC, I love the colour scheme in this church. Very peaceful.
DeleteHappy Easter! It is such a beautiful church the chandeliers are just spectacular. Glad you got to go again fingers crossed that you will soon conquer when does 11 it’s not quite as bad as it first appears when you first start
ReplyDeleteSandra I notice your chat robot (or whatever it's called) is having difficulties with "when does 11" too 😅 Good name really as I find myself asking that a lot (together with "why does 11" and "where does 11") ... Joke aside, it's probably not all that bad, but I'm still trying to sort out the synced bookmarks that I didn't really ask to have synced, as I had intended to clean up among them rather than add more!
ReplyDeleteYour church is beautiful and has all the architectural features I like. You would smile if I post a photo of my church, it is like an auditorium. Full of spirit though. We had about 14 baptisms today on Easter Sunday.
ReplyDeleteTerra, in the past I've attended very different kinds of churches, including one or two that didn't have a building of their own at all but met in other kinds of (secular) places (like youth recreation centers or schools). At this point in life (attending less regularly myself) I tend to appreciate the solidness of old churches like this one though, with lots of history in its very walls... (Knowing people have been meeting there for the same purpose for centuries.) I can see the purposes of both, even if my own preference has gone through some changes.
DeleteWe are going to church today; the village band accompany the service today, which means O.K. has to be there an hour before the start. I will walk up the steep hill (the church is built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the village) half an hour or so later and quietly find a place on my own, as I always do on such occasions, maybe 3 or four times a year.
ReplyDeleteIt is going to be a beautiful day and rather mild later (but still cold in the baroque church building with its thick stone walls), and I am hoping for a nice long walk in the afternoon.
Your church is very elegant, and so different from the Swedish country churches I've seen with their very simple interiors.
ReplyDeleteCarol, there are sooo many different kinds of churches, even among the really old ones. On summer holiday car trips I love stopping at old countryside churches (and city ones too) to have a peek inside. (They are often open in the daytime in the summer holiday period, but more rarely so the rest of the year.)
DeleteSounds good, Meike. Hope you have a lovely day!
ReplyDeleteYour church is a bit more interesting that ones in New Zealand that are sometimes old from the early colonial days to more modern. Happy easter.
ReplyDeleteAmy, this church dates back to the mid 17th century (but has been through a number of refurbishments since then). And there was a church on the same spot even back in medieval times.
DeleteLovely church. I hope you had a happy Easter. Have a lovely Spring!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kay. Today it's raining but I guess we need a bit of that, too!
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