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  • The Past Tense

    Sometimes museums are terribly annoying. I found myself getting all worked up about this thurible.

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    Well, It wasn’t exactly the thurible that got me worked up but the card next to it.

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    The caption uses the past tense. “Censors were used…”

    Censors are used. It somehow felt so frustrating to look at an object that I could pick up and use in my daily work and which seemed to me to be in as good a state as when it was first made and yet see the caption speaking about the use as being something in the past.

    As I looked around the same gallery, all the references to anything liturgical were expressed in the same way:

    “Music was important in the Christian liturgy…”

    There’s no was about it.

7 responses to “What people are searching for”

  1. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Some of these ring a bell, but am deeply curious as to what the the Scottish Episcopal Tartan is! Creation of the (divinely-inspired?) knitting-group? 🙂

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    1. kelvin Avatar
      kelvin

      You’ve forgotten that I am Episcopal Arbiter of The Kilt, Ryan.

      See here and here.

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  2. Brother David Avatar
    Brother David

    Do you teach that last topic personally Padre, or have you farmed that out to others more expert?

    😉

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  3. kelvin Avatar
    kelvin

    I may take exception to the idea that anyone is more expert.

    Reply
  4. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    All I know about strip-tease for beginners is that blokes need to remember to take their socks off as the first item. Really.

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  5. kelvin Avatar
    kelvin

    Never let it be said that the comments on this blog do not contain the world’s greatest wisdom

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  6. Brother David Avatar
    Brother David

    The only time that I recall my Roberto, of blessed memory, taking off his socks, was when bathing or swimming!

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