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The Resurrection
But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay. Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him.’ See, I have told you.”… Matthew 28:6
Happy Easter!
Pasg hapus pawb! Happy Easter, one and all!
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On a day when Conservative-voting Calvin Robinson seems to have been rejected for the priesthood by the Church if England, but Socialist, rabid Socialist, Joanna Penberthy remains as a bishop in the Church in Wales. Shameful!
ReplyDeleteRob
Why are you surprised?
DeleteHappy Easter AB. And to contribute some 'jollity' allow me to share with your contributors e.mail received today from a friend who attended last week's Maundy Thursday Holy Eucharist at St. Paul's Cathedral. St. Paul's which is probably the Anglican Church's most dress-rehearsed, practice-perfect place of clergy procession.
DeleteE.Mail: "There was one cheering moment from our Chrism Mass on Maundy Thursday when our new, keen and proud deacon missed her footing en-route to the station where she was to administer communion" writes my clergy friend. What happened next was that the full content of her chalice drenched the apparently not too popular 'Flying' Bishop of Fulham (+Jonathan Baker) head-on. This only feet away from +Sarah, Bishop of London. The e.mail continues: "the loathesome Bishop had no understanding the chalice as consecrated otherwise he would presumably have had to consume his episcopal robes. Pity. That would have been a sight to behold"!
It's an incident that reminds me of a wonderful old chap of my parish who refused to accept the severity of his Parkinson's Disease hand, arm and body shaking disabilties. He also refused the strong grip his vicar offered on the chalice insisting he put it to his own lips. Spillage. Spillage. Spillage. Cunningly, our vicar figured it out. He knew the rough number of communicants to serve before the dear old gent would arrive at the alter-rail on his zimmer-frame so filled the chalice to 'almost empty' at that point. Any spillage then would only be a drop or two ... then return to replenish the chalice for the remainder of communicants. No one was offended. Only he and the altar boys knew what he was up to.
Perhaps one day, AB, your pages open for more of these lovely examples of good old-fashioned 'vicaring' as reminder to the new clergy breed that not everything needs be by the book and that by Christ's own example, we humans are allowed some humour. That how we enjoy a Happy Easter.
Ad Clerum
I recall a Roman catholic nun telling me regarding spillage of consecrated wine and the difficulty of cleaning up from a robe. " I think if He is clever enough to get Himself in there. He is clever enough to get out before it spills"
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Christ is humble enough to make his presence real to us in bread and wine so he's not going to be bothered in the slightest by a nervous deacon spilling the cup. I imagine he's more annoyed by the priest who sends an email taking pleasure in the deacon's adversity and the colleague on here spreading it as if it was in the least bit funny.
DeleteNotAmused
That's the first time I've ever heard Bishop Jonathan described as loathsome!
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My editing of the full e.mail, Unison Off, was attempt to avoid cascade of e.mails re-opening women-bishop authority which perhaps has been overdone in AB's otherwise excellent blog. But if you want e.mail extract pertaining to +Jonathan in exact form - sent by a London priest of both esteem and seniority - it reads: "He (being a loathsome Flying Bishop) would of course not have acknowledged the content of the chalice as consecrated since +Sarah was presiding, otherwise .." etc. This implies consecrated by a woman bishop and so thus not to be recognised as sacred. Thus the definition stands. I don't know the gentleman but if you do, perhaps you'd check is position on women bishops.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, lets not take offence. There are those (few) in Wales who think ++John is the best thing since the invention of wedding-kilts.
Ad Clerum
Ah! I see. loathsome because he believes what The Church has always taught.
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Perhaps so chum. But in signing off from this which began in spirit of some jocularity at the expense of suffrogen bishop Baker's apparent contradictions in serving under a female Bishop of London, let's throw in his pre-requite as former Masonic Grand Master (only quitting the Free Masons upper echelons to give passage to his change of funny dressing up box) and his status as divorcee. Was this also what Your Church taught you?
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Ad Clerum
I've gained a'chum' !
ReplyDeleteUnison Off
Pasg Hapus. I was disappointed with Dechrau Canu on Easter Day from Bangor Cathedral. One hour, but filled with padding, several solos, interview with the archbishop, and Sion Rhys Evans. It would have been much better with more hymns. Also I was puzzled with the very poor attendance. Barely 40 in the congregation and the choir were seated at the back to pad out the numbers. Also no cathedral clergy present, not even a blessing at the end. Diflas.
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Surely though the programme was a recording, made possibly a week or two before Easter, and organised by the television people rather than the Cathedral? I suspect that all the congregants were choristers of some kind or other. It cannot be compared to a "live" Easter service!
DeleteAnd to add to that, Cymraes yn Lloegr, not a single face of the barely 40 'congregants' who were recognised as cathedralites or even from the wider Bangor parishes ... all trawled in from somewhere or other, but certainly not St. Deiniols. Sion ap Rhys must have been a bit embarrassed by it too. He made no announcement in his Easter Sunday service nor in his newsletter that St. Deniol's was to be broadcast that evening so, few congregants and probably even fewer viewers. That said, dressed in his finest crimson Vatican robes, velvet slippers and purple socks most viewers would have thought the service was being transmitted from an RC church so let them take the flak ... !
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Are they going to appoint a Dean, or is he hoping to control the entire empire from Elm Street. Surprised he wasn’t created Assistant Bishop in all honesty… maybe he’ll make himself Welsh Pope next and be done with it.
DeleteDewiResistance
Did he manage to turn his microphone on this time?
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Anyone else seen the photographs of the Marriage / Wedding of Bangor Cathedral organist and his husband, at Bangor Cathedral, yesterday ? I wish them both every joy, but pointed out that The CiW did not allow same sex Marriage - yet, and that, surely, what took place was a 'Blessing'
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Bangor Cathedral has an Organist?
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