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Flower Festival – 2
This rather fine camel appears between the Christmas and Epiphany displays of the Flower festival, leading the way to the manger.Her gorgeous necklace started off as the Star of Bethlehem, but owing to trouble locating the star over the Place Where Jesus Lay, it transformed itself into a very fine camel adornment.She looks pretty pleased with…
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Flower Festival – 1
There is a flower festival in St Saviour's starting tomorrow. The centrepiece is a carpet of flowers symbolising Corpus Christi.Jan Watson and Mollie Orchard are shown here putting the finishing touches to the display.For Corpus Christi itself, I'm planning on going to St Michael and All Saints in Edinburgh for their evening liturgy which starts…
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Synod Papers
One of the things which is keeping me occupied this week is reading the General Synod papers. Synod is not for a couple of weeks, but the book of papers is pretty thick and needs some work. There is a whole collection of collects in traditional language which this diocese is putting forward for consideration…
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Preaching today
I was not preaching today as the bishop was visiting. However, some notes from his sermon appear on the church website. One throwaway remark that he (the bishop) made to me was that it is interesting how important preaching is to a lot of liberal catholic churches. I think this is true. I don’t think…
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Pic on church website
Someone asked me today what the pic on the church website is of as it looks familiar. It is the centre of the altar cross.www.saint-saviour.org
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Events
Bat Day is tomorrow – with sunset bat walk. Bishop David is coming on Sunday and Sue White will be licensed as a Lay Reader. The Flower Festival starts next week on Thursday and lasts until the following Tuesday. (ie 26-31 May 2005) The church website should be relaunched this weekend with a rather more…
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Affirming Lay Liturgies
That last entry had scarcely been uploaded more than 2 minutes before the doorbell rang and my colleague from Stirling said, “Do you want a liturgy for licensing a Lay Reader?” Almost enough to make me believe in divine intervention. Almost.
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Odd
It strikes me as odd that in a church which is supposedly celebrating variety of ministries we appear to have no liturgy for recognising a lay ministry.
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Verbatim – yesterday, General Synod Office
Me: Well, “temporary” as a description of a website is a bit of a red herring. After all, websites are all both temporary and not temporary simultaneously.Him: Thank you Confucius.
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The curious incident of the mouse in the night time
Was awakened by the most almighty crash at 0230 this morning. It was clear from the noise of pounding hooves that the last trump had sounded and the four horsemen of the apocalypse were riding through the bedroom. [Bear in mind that I had seen an opera last night in which Nero quite properly appeared…