I decided to wait until next week for the vigil. This feels like a real luxury: to choose a day myself rather than being tied to a medieval feast date!
When first thinking about Festial, I planned to spend a day in Wood Dalling church each month, and of course I would choose a nice sunny day for it (medieval churches don't have central heating!). But now the idea of working with the actual feast dates has evolved it feels good to this rigorous conceptualist (too rigorous for my own good sometimes, believe me!) to have to take each day as it comes, no matter how inclement the weather.
But the vigil is different. The project proper hasn't started yet, and the vigil is just a way of trying to be open to whatever might be present – and I expect it to be a two-way process.
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