Easter greetings to all in Killermont!

This is the organ music I played today:

• Allein Gott in der Hoh ; Pachelbel
• Easter hymn : Jesus Christ is risen today ; Archer
• Alleluia (from Exultate, jubilate) ; Mozart
• Trumpet tune on "Hail the day that sees Him rise" (Llanfair) ; David Lasky
• John's trumpet solo, This joyful Eastertide (Vreuchten) ; Lasky
• Herr Gott, dich loben wir alle ; Volckmar

Our greetings go to Jean, church secretary extraordinaire, coming home today after a hip replacement operation. All good wishes for a speedy recovery, Jean. Our thoughts are with you as you take those first steps!

Lastly, while you scoff your Easter eggs and enjoy your Sunday roast, maybe you might like to look at the work of Plan - an agency improving the lives of people in the third world. There are some interesting alternative gift ideas for any time of year.

For the person who has everything - why not "give" them something that will benefit those who have nothing?

It's Easter tomorrow. Are you ready for a 7.30 am service? (Not forgetting that you'll have put your clocks forward before going to bed tonight. Yawn!)

So, what have we got? A 7.30 am service, with breakfast to follow. And the normal 10 am service - with a difference. Youthworker John will be blowing his own trumpet, literally, at the end of the service. And if that doesn't send you home with a spring in your step, then nothing will!

What will I be playing before the service? Wait and see ...

Well, Palm Sunday is one day where the music just chooses itself. In the morning, I played:-

• The Palms, by Faure;
• Settings of "Herzlich thut mich verlangen" (O, sacred head, sore wounded), by Bach, Zollner and Walther;
• O Mensch, bewein, by Bach (it's such a mournful piece. I always remember lying ill in bed with glandular fever when I was 18, and my father playing that piece on the piano downstairs);
• Nun danket, by Karg Elert

In the evening, Killermont Parish Church had visiting musicians in the shape of Rita McGhee's musical twin grand-daughters, Abbey and Aisling (violin and piano respectively). Didn't they do well? Rita can rightly feel very proud of them!

Don't forget to put your clocks forward on Saturday night. Get to bed early - the dawn Easter communion service is at 7.30 am, British Summer Time. What an unearthly hour to be driving from the south-side to Bearsden!

By the end of the service, we shall all be sufficiently awake - and hungry - to do our Easter breakfast justice!

There's another service at 10 am, of course. But no breakfast after it.

After a cyber silence ...

I realise with shame that I haven't posted details of Killermont organ music for a whole month. It will now be of no relevance whatsoever.

Today is Palm Sunday. Don't forget that there is an evening service tonight, entitled Contemplating the Cross. We have talented young musicians playing before and after the service, choral contributions old and new, inspirational readings ... and your favourite seasonal hymns. Don't miss it!