What is in Kelvin's Head?

Francistide at St Mary’s

04/10/2013

Today is St Francis’s Day – love and blessings to all Franciscans out there and a special thanksgiving for the ministry of the new Pope.

Last year I was in St Francis’s own city – not Assisi, but San Francisco and was blessing animals on the labyrinth of Grace Cathedral with Gene Robinson. (No, really, there’s a lovely macaw out there somewhere who can tell you it is all true).

The focus at St Mary’s this year for Francistide is tomorrow (Saturday).

We’ve an animal blessing service at 11 am tomorrow. All pets and their humans are welcome.

Then in the afternoon, we’ve got a Choir Concert – free entry, donations at the end. This will include a performance of Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo starring the Young Church as the animals.

They’ve been working on this, I gather:

19 responses to “Back to work”

Kimberly

28/04/2007

I’ve been trying to get the last line of each verse to scan better in the absence of the ‘O’ (which is hidden in the vocative, but well hidden indeed since deus is an irregular vocative…)

perhaps,

care deus, cum ba ia — ?

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Zebadee

28/04/2007

Kimberley,

The time spent feeding you all those fudge doughnuts was certainly not wasted

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Moyra

28/04/2007

How did we get from Kum by Yah, or even Cum ba ia, to fudge doughnuts?

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Kimberly

28/04/2007

Moyra, you have to realise that fudge doughnuts are Zebadee’s equivalent of Mornington Crescent. With enough ingenuity, a link is always possible.

(It’s a St Andrews thing…)

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Moyra

28/04/2007

I understand….

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Sarah SSM

30/04/2007

I’m sure that there is something holy about fudge doughnuts. Holey, anyway. Come by here, my Lord, we have fudge doughnuts?

Unfortunately, I live in a convent not sufficiently hol(e)y to have them. Too bad. Nor do we have cum ba ia around a candle, but perhaps Compline counts? I’ll suggest to our Superior that we do cum ba ia for our Compline hymn Tuesday. I’m sure she’d be thrilled (Kimberly can comment on that, I’m sure, as they are acquainted).

I’m sure someone could come up with an appropriate analysis of cum ba ia from a hermeneutic related to fudge donuts and liberation theology…

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kelvin

02/05/2007

personally, I’m not sure that I have ever tasted a fudge doughnut. I’ m sure I have no idea what you are all talking about.

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Kimberly

02/05/2007

No, Kelvin. You have never bought a fudge doughnut. That’s not the same thing.

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Kelvin

02/05/2007

Ah.

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