| THERE WAS plenty of water — holy and otherwise — when the Rogation procession beat the bounds of the parishes of Barrow, Risby, Great and Little Saxham, and Denham, in St Edmundsbury & Ipswich diocese. The Revd Peter Macleod-Miller, using branches of rosemary and milkwort, liberally sprinkled everyone and everything on the boundary with buckets of holy water, and the rain came down.
He and some of his parishioners were travelling in a hay wagon pulled by a tractor (above) and passed homes, schools, fields, and places of industry, worship, and recreation. They stopped on the way to see the new lambs, foals, and deer. They prayed for God’s blessing, and especially for the plight of the people in Zimbabwe, said Mr Macleod-Miller.
They were heading for St Mary’s, in Denham, for a concluding service, when they paused at Barrow Green for a prayer for water for the coming crops. The heavens opened, and they were drenched. Hurrying back, they had their service, and a picnic lunch, inside the church in the dry.
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