• 10 Things to Remember about Corpus Christi

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    1. It is on Thursday 19 June 2014 this year.
    2. It is always on a Thursday.
    3. It is one of the most extravagent and lovely religious festivals that human beings have devised.
    4. Thomas Aquinas is said to have invented it to bring the focus back to Jesus Christ in churches which were rather keen on his mother.
    5. It is about gazing in wonder – and we don’t do that nearly enough.
    6. Our Lord himself comes and wanders amongst his people – just like in real life!
    7. Abraham (as Bishop Kevin was always wont to say) would have understood this feast
    8. We scatter flower petals hither and yon to make a suitable pathway for God to come amongst us
    9. It smells. Lovely.
    10. The service takes place at 7.30 pm in St Mary’s on Thursday evening – please bring flower petals to the sacristy by 7 pm if you can

8 responses to “Lightbox time”

  1. Kimberly Avatar

    you forgot to mention that light boxes work much better in proper offices, rather than those shared with cats.

  2. Kelvin Avatar

    Oh, that’s one of those PhD theses never yet completed: Symbiosis and Stasis – the effect of cats on lightboxes, the effect of lightboxes on cats and the effects of each on those living with Seasonally Affective Disorder.

  3. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    According to those posters on the underground, catowners are apparently more stress-free and content and the norm so, surely, a cat AND light box owner ought to be chirpy as Santa Clause!

  4. Coxy Avatar
    Coxy

    We have one. Not out yet but it might have been had it not been for a few days earlier this week in Belfast while NI pretended to be Spain in summer!

  5. kelvin Avatar

    Thanks Coxy. Can I also saw how much I am in awe of your Church Times Page 3 Stunner success this week.

    A media triumph.

    Now, if I dressed up in pink and had my photo taken running about in shorts, I wonder if the Church Times….

  6. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Not a CT subscriber, so : Link?!! Hope it was the neon number ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Although surely, given the choice, Italian Vanity Fair makes for the more impressive C.V. entry ๐Ÿ˜‰

  7. Stewart Avatar

    ….with and without the Cope of Glory, Kelvin??

  8. Kimberly Avatar

    Kelvin, no.

    But let us just enjoy that for once Nick looks better in pink.

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