Here’s some pics from last Saturday. I was on the island of Greater Cumbrae at the Cathedral of the Isles to see its two new canons installed. They are the Dean of that diocese – the Very Rev Andrew Swift and the Provost of St John’s Cathedral, Oban the Very Rev Nicola McNelly.
Here they are:
This is how they process in the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles. (This tradition developed due to a history of Viking Raids, I believe)
This is the bishop sporting a slighty twisty lappet.
This is the light fitting that I once again failed to smuggle off the island but which I found myself coveting when I should have been praying.
Disappointed in you, father. No pics of the choir, tastefully attired to resemble Whoopi Goldberg in red …
It was a little dark in there….
Tell me about it! (she said, vulgarly)
Was that Evensong or Evensnog Chris?
Despite the gloom, there was no snogging in the stalls. There was too much going on – it was a Eucharist with much coming and going…
Speak for yourself…
Oh, I don’t speak for Canons and assorted clerics who invade the choir on these occasions …
The kiss of peace might have been interesting in the gloom….