I’m aware that this cartoon was drawn for another situation. However, this is kind of how it feels to be gay in the Scottish Episcopal Church at the moment. My guess is that other people feel it too.
We need to pray for a different style of leadership.
Urgently.
My thanks to Dave Walker for making this and other great cartoons available to post occasionally on blogs and to Andrew Swift who drew my attention to it.
Apart from the outbreak of throat-blessings, I noticed none of this, despite being about three yards from it. Had the Shoes been other than black, however, I’d have spotted them from a mile away. #pedantalert.
Proof positive that some time spent in a good liturgical finishing school early in a clerical career pays dividends later on.
I don’t know why but the phrase ‘flailing jellyfish’ has made me laugh so much that I nearly had an accident. We’ve all done it and now it will be made worse by thinking of that phrase each time. Thank you.
“Provost turns into a flailing jellyfish”? It’s like an episode of Dr Who! Blue Book instead of blue Tardis but otherwise….
And it’s claimed that I’m ‘special’!!
i got a good chuckle out of this. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Sounds par for the course at our Sunday 1030 masses… such events and little mishaps keep us all on our toes. And, of course, invariably performed with due reverence, and in the best possible taste….!
We had a great day on Sunday at St Mary’s. The Feast of St James in the morning was a lovely interlude into the usual summer Sunday calendar and then a special Choral Evensong sung by the Choir of St Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut. They had been in Lincoln for a week singing…
I just want to applaud Bishop David asking us what we think he should say to the Pope later this year. That’s such a good use of a Primus’s blog. I hope he gets plenty of comments.
Here is a quick video of the Botafumeiro swinging in Compostella last year as promised in the sermon this morning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Qiv3F3bv4&feature=related Commentary is a bit intrusive. Watch out for the brilliant catch and swirl movement by the chief tiraboleiro as it is brought to rest at the end. There is a simulation of how it…
For the Feast of St Hamish.
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