On this Easter morning we share two slides taken on Easter Sunday fifty years ago, March 26, 1967.
Easter Sunday 1967
Easter Sunday 1967
And here are four undated photographs, mostly likely from Easter, and possibly also from Easter Sunday 1967. The rector, J. Raymond McWilliam, is clearly visible. Does anyone recognize the server or the other priest?
Altar, possibly Easter 1967
Altar detail, possibly Easter 1967
Procession, possibly Easter 1967
Altar party, possibly Easter 1967
Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. Today we share five slides taken fifty years ago, on Palm Sunday 1967, the congregation’s first Palm Sunday in the new building. The high altar had been consecrated on Maundy Thursday of the previous year.
The first slide shows the nave, at the beginning of the service.
Palm Sunday 1967
Then we see two servers at the rear of the nave preparing for the procession. Can anyone tell us who these two are, or identify the chorister just behind them?
Palm Sunday 1967
Next, we see the rector, J. Raymond McWilliam, reading the gospel from the liturgical north end of the altar, as was then the custom.
Palm Sunday 1967
The final two slides show Father McWilliam receiving the offering. We have been able to identify only two others in these shots: of the men facing the altar, the two on the left are Herb Brown and Jim White. Can anyone identify others in the pictures?
Palm Sunday 1967
Palm Sunday 1967
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