- It is on Thursday 19 June 2014 this year.
- It is always on a Thursday.
- It is one of the most extravagent and lovely religious festivals that human beings have devised.
- 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.
- It is about gazing in wonder – and we don’t do that nearly enough.
- Our Lord himself comes and wanders amongst his people – just like in real life!
- Abraham (as Bishop Kevin was always wont to say) would have understood this feast
- We scatter flower petals hither and yon to make a suitable pathway for God to come amongst us
- It smells. Lovely.
- 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
6 responses to “Gene Robinson on blogging”
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[…] EFORE He preached this AM, Bishop Gene Robinson sat down with the Provost of the Glasgow Cathedral and discussed – among other things, I’m sure – blogging. […]
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and speaking of blogging about today, Fr. Jonathan (MadPriest) has told us of his journey up to Glasgow to join you today.
the rest of us are rather jealous and wish that we had been there, too.
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Madly, I read the sense of the first sentence as fall into the *arms* of a happy but exhausted provost ,and thought that you had went ahead and posted your suggested personal ad :-).
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Thank you and goodnight! (and no probs on Firefox as far as this is concerned)
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Brilliant! Looking forward to more, hope you had a great rest after a great day!
Here via Mad Priest and TheMeThatIsMe, both of whom were right there with you in church. Lucky lads.
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Keep up the good work. I had no problems seeing & hearing +Gene clearly
using my Firefox browser.
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