Volcano, ash, processions

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1. AKMA says

   21/04/2010 at 14:05

   Ash Friday, eh?

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2. kelvin says

   21/04/2010 at 14:06

   Ash everyday!

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3. Erp says

   21/04/2010 at 14:19

   Sackcloth and ashes?

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4. Tim says

   21/04/2010 at 14:25

   You’d think there’s be a prescribed form of head-covering for the occasion…

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5. Kirstin says

   21/04/2010 at 21:29

   I have a lovely lacy parasol that could protect the bishop elect!

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6. David | Dah•veed says

   21/04/2010 at 22:55

   OK, I am lost. What is happening Friday that merits an out-of-doors procession. A party? What? Share? Inquiring minds would like to know.

   So are you all experiencing an ashfall similar to the folks in Iceland? I am sorry. That makes for the whole outside being dirty, gritty and unpleasant. (We have many active volcanos in Mexico.)

   Here is to hoping it stops, and then that you get a quick, great rainfall Thursday night to wash it all away and dry up with the sunrise.

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   • kelvin says

     21/04/2010 at 23:04

     We are consecrating a new bishop on Friday. The closing of so many airports this week has played havoc with the guest list, causing much reviewing of the order of processions and where people will sit.

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7. David | Dah•veed says

   21/04/2010 at 22:59

   In response to Tim’s comment;

   http://www.partydomain.co.uk/images/P/11487.jpg

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8. ryan says

   22/04/2010 at 00:33

   Ooh, does that mean there’s some spare tickets? 😉

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9. Mike says

   22/04/2010 at 08:50

   I hate those ecclesiastical processions 🙁

   Following our Lord’s comment that the first shall be last and the last shall be first……

   “Oh, I’m much more humble than you – I have to be further back. Lay readers at the front, non-stipendiaries next ……….”

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10. kelvin says

    22/04/2010 at 13:40

    I know, Mike, though there does need to be a way of getting a large bunch of people efficiently into a building and not have them scrambling for seats when they get there.

    Here in Glasgow, the diocesan clergy are not divided into stipendiaries or non-stipendiaries. Nor are people lined up according to the length of their service as clerics, as I’ve seen in some places.

    Although there is a hierarchical element, it is also, here at least, also partly a hierarchy of role in the service. Thus, a number of people (mc, deacon and subdeacon) will all come in behind the College of Bishops.

    Procession here is also different coming out to going in. Going in, the Primus comes at the back, going out the new Bishop will go at the back and the Primus will rejoin the rest of the College.

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