Don't say the text, vic!

I've just been reminded from a discussion elsewhere of this Monty Python Sketch anyone saying "don't say the text, vic" at a certain point in the service on Sunday morning will not be popular! Someone has already planted the concept of a takeaway in my head (we're doing an extended communion)
Non-working monkey has a picture of individually shrink wrapped carrots in this posting - if you are ecologically aware and of a nervous disposition don't go there. I thought the Dutch were better at reducing waste than us...If you want unsuitable fruit you can't get much better than DH Lawrence
Spent the morning trying to persuade the work laptop to talk to their exchange server - no clear idea why it wasn't and when it started working even less idea what had happened. Maybe someone somewhere in the work network turned on a tap?
I had a link to a Stephen Hough article in the Times I was going to quote, but firefox crashed and then when restarting due to a misclick I closed the window with all the useful tabs, but thanks to google and Catholic Sensibility I have:

Caravaggio’s religious works are greater than William Holman Hunt’s not because he was a firmer believer than the good Englishman but because he was a better painter — and his infamous case is, delightfully, the exception which proves the exception: “God makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends his rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew v, 45).

Artistic genius, and our delight in what it produces, is an example of the profligate overflow of God’s grace and goodness, given without limit or condition. In fact, an artist’s complacent confidence that his faith and good behaviour will lend him God’s help in a special way is likely to be the very obstacle which gets in the way of greatness — a log in the artistic eye preventing him from seeing the “world in a grain of sand”.
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Even physically, we play our instruments better when limbs are free and loose, and people regularly report an increase in physical and mental energy when they start to pray or meditate. In addition, prayer can form in us an inner silence which is an essential part of concentration. To be able to hear each note, each bar, each phrase, both individually and as a related whole, requires an ability to see and to hold many parts in unity — a key to any life of contemplation. Avoiding distractions, creating new and better material out of mistakes, balancing self-demand and self-esteem, are all qualities which unite a musical and spiritual life. The hidden, daily annoyances of cancelled flights, noisy hotels, bad food and inferior pianos, are a constant ascetical challenge; and the patience required in the course of a tour to meet, with kindness and attention, hundreds of new people backstage or at receptions is a real call to holiness — much like a priest at the door of his church who tries to greet each person as if they were the most important in the world . . . at least for those few seconds.

I see that Hough is giving a master class over in Heswall tomorrow, if only I had the time!