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| Students at St Michael's College, Llandaff. Spot the three future 'bishops' of the Church in Wales? |
In a provincial press release 'Bishops’ hat-trick' the Church in Wales announced: "Three clerics who were ordained on the same day in the same cathedral three decades ago are now all serving as bishops on the same Bench."
One might be forgiven for thinking that was nothing to shout about given their record and ever shrinking attendance figures.
Reports of same sex attraction among some of the students at St Michael's College, Llandaff three decades ago make one wonder if such activities were observed by the three current occupants of the bench, thus influencing their thoughts on same sex marriage.
A former Archbishop of Wales is on record as saying that his experience of the hurt felt by women at university led him to accept the ordination of women.
The bishops' consultation on same sex marriage suggests a similar case of misplaced sympathy but their consultation rouse is akin to the classic three card trick, otherwise known as 'find the queen', designed to win regardless.
That is no way for bishops to behave.
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| The bishops of Swansea and Brecon, Monmouth and St Asaph |
Might it also be related to the time that His --Darkness left his post at St. Michelle's college under a cloud and relocated to north Wales so the then Archbishop could keep a closer eye on him and his shenanigans?
ReplyDeletePP. Interesting facts. One is much larger these days. Monmouth was a strong diocese once.
ReplyDeleteHmm yes one is much larger. I attended his 'deaconing' at St Woolos and sat with none other than the late great Christopher Morgan.
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They did not get it from John Hughes, the warden!
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It's always fun to look back 30 years and ask "where are they now?"
ReplyDeleteFor instance, in 1987 a student from Liverpool Polytechnic took a role in a film that strangely predicted his future. Many actors will say "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV." This aspiring novice was thrust into the role of a vicar.
Thanks to the magic of the Internet, the classic straight-to-video horror film "Shock Ending" by Holyhead's renowned Videas Films is now available to all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Gb2fuR2ZFAc
Step back in time to the 1980s panic over "video nasties" in a hard-hitting production that spares neither expense nor talent. Many of you will instantly recognise the young actor (at least from his voice) but you can also read his name in the title sequence at 1 minute into the film.
Skip to 12 minutes for his grand entry when an unsuspecting housewife opens the door!
Insipid then, even more insipid now.
DeleteWhere to begin? Is it "Carry On Capon"?!
DeleteFrom start to finish this is a terrible, terrible film. It utterly fails as a horror movie but takes itself so seriously that it's not intentionally comic either. (Except for the death scenes which had me in stitches, and the fight with the guy holding a meat cleaver).
There's an idea that if you had 1000 monkeys typing away for 1000 years they would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Well this movie's script was cobbled together from the pages the monkeys threw away, and it goes downhill from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8
To call the acting "wooden" would be unduly complimentary. The cast sound like Brookside rejects who could barely learn their lines, let alone speak them, and the set comprises two rooms in a house on Anglesey. As for the plot, it's basically about a man who kills his wife because she asked him to heat the dinner instead of watching horror films.
In all this, Gerwyn edges uncomfortably through his performance as a ruddy cheeked young vicar. It's the role he was born to play and that's not a good thing! At least he looks somewhat more relaxed when he succumbs to the inevitable fate of priests in horror movies...
All in all, the only positive aspect of "Shock Ending" is that it makes famously bad film directors such as Ed Wood and Tommy Wiseau look like Hitchcock. At least they had some notion of what the words "acting", "plot" and "action" mean. Alas, no-one explained those to Videas Films.
Thirty years later and Gerwhine is still playing at being a priest! How did the affected young fop on this ridiculous video end up in charge of a cathedral?
DeleteAnswers on a postcard folks!
Two failed lawyers and a train-spotting nerd now bishops of the Church in Wales. No wonder John Hughes looks as if he's had enough.
ReplyDeleteMind you, a certain residentiary canon will be able to tell you how, a few years before this photograph was captured for posterity, John Hughes summoned the then-senior student, and disclosed his horror that there was 'homo-sexu-ality' in the college. 'Don't you worry, Father' the senior student assured him, while doing his best impersonation of John Inman, 'I'll have it sorted before the night's out'!
Night's out, or lights out???
DeleteWhat have those three impostors got to smile about?
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