In recent years we have enjoyed attending Canterbury Cathedral's (http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/) Christmas carol service on Christmas Eve - it really does get you in a festive mood enjoying a carol service which has likely essentially remained unchanged for a couple of hundred years, wishing the Archbishop a very Merry Christmas and seeing the life sized crib. Medieval churches aside, we decided to head off to see what the Main Line could offer us as a festive treat. We had received a local tip off that a good starting place was the Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr (http://www.bmpc.org/). Our resident Welsh man was looking forward to hearing a good hearty choir - well it is called Bryn Mawr....... After recovering from the shock that some carols appear the same but have an entirely different tune, that others appear the same but then suddenly have new words, and finally others look completey new but are actually set to a surprisingly well known tune (Greensleeves?????) we had a very enjoyable time. Well done to the family who volunteered to be Mary Joseph and the baby Jesus in the live Tableau, we don't think that the dummy ("pacifier") was authentic but she was getting pretty upset. The candles for Silent Night set the scene and the children playing hand bells were very well done. Happy Christmas.
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