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SUMMARY:Ploughing for All
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DESCRIPTION:This Worship for All service is to celebrate Plough Sunday. Ev
 eryone is welcome. Plough Sunday has been celebrated on the First Sunday o
 f Epiphany since Victorian times\, but behind it there is a much older obs
 ervance\, associated with the first working day after the twelve days of C
 hristmas\, hence ‘Plough Monday’.\n\nIn the Middle Ages ploughs were s
 ometimes kept in the parish church\, and some churches kept a ‘plough-li
 ght’ – a candle that burned over the plough throughout the winter. In 
 winter days when work was scarce the observance looked forward to the time
  of sowing with the promise of a harvest to come.\n\nDuring the Christmas 
 period workers were laid off and did not receive any wages. On the first M
 onday after Epiphany (Twelfth Night – 6 January) ploughmen traditional d
 isguised themselves and dragged a decorated plough around the village shou
 ting ‘Penny for the ploughboys’. Morris men would also dance.
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LOCATION:St Mary & St Lambert\, Stonham Aspal and Mickfield.
URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/2012/service-and-events/events/9
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