From the Diocese of Wenchoster:
I start with Bishop Codpiecium's column out of respect for his office, although Mr. Grindle is actually my favorite person in the diocese. But don't tell the bishop that, please, especially since he was kind enough to leave a word here. It's not personal. It's that I'm somewhat in awe of people with ecclesiastical titles, and Mr G. is so folksy and down to earth.
Hello! This tame of yar brings with it a tindency to relax and assume that awl is will with the warld. Hot summer afternoons laying in the grarss arfter a libat-i-on et the Nane Bills; watching the cwarboys frolic in the Close; teasing the Cenon Precentor with may crosier; pecking for Limbeth (end may excitement continues to raise!) end looking forward to the clargy croquet evenings with great anticipat-i-on. Thus it would be easy to spind the summer in such a fash-i-on, ignoring the hayer callings which affict us awl. Therefore I have desaded to be out end abite in the darsen perishes a lot more then in the past. Once Limbeth is over (end how sed I shell be!) I see it es may duty to visit es minny perishes es possible before the evening begin to draw in, end the thunderstorms of August dempen the fetes of Shaston Farthing. Remember thet I em your bishop – end the place for a bishop is with his own people end darsis.
May the Lawd bliss you awl.
+ Roderick Codpiecium.
Will the bishops at Lambeth, er, Limbeth actually play croquet? I'll wager that they won't lay out their own wickets for the game.
I was going to post the calendar for the month of June for the diocese, but I want you to visit and explore there. Just keep processing, and you will come to it. The journal is chock full of illustrations in this issue, so those of you who like your books and periodicals with lots of pictures will be pleased.
O happy day! Mr. Grindle is back with a few wise words for us.
Well there are some who say that I must breathe a sigh of relief when we get hinto this season of Trinity just because I don’t ‘ave to change the vestments, frontals and ‘angings from the green for weeks on hend doesn’t mean that there’s no hextra work haround the cathedral during the summer months to begin with there’s the hendless stream of visitors that need watching or helse they will go hastray in the transcepts (creating more mess to clean hup) then there’s the guest celebrants and preachers from hall round the Hanglican Communion you’s think that they’d hall know ‘ow to ‘andle a maniple wouldn’t you but oh no sir I’ve seen some pretty rum things done in the sacristy I can tell you mainly by members of the Church in Wales my nearest hand dearest Mrs Grindle who is trying hout a new 'omeopathic remedy is preparing summer treats hin the Refectory hand no doubt the new menu will be published once hit’s approved by Wenchoster Public ‘Ealth. So you see hit’s a busy time.
Right! That’s it! No more rubbing Brasso hon the ‘Onourary Canons!
Oh dear. What can the members from Wales be up to in the sacristy? Mr. G. doesn't say, so we are left to wonder.
I'm not sure why this picture is at the Diocese of Wenchoster site, but I like it and the caption, although I'm not 100% sure that the caption is true.
I love the bottom picture too, but I'm not sure being Episcopalian would help Obama much. I've already seen him accused of being Muslim, black nationalist, Marxist, and elitist (not quite sure if that's considered a package deal or not). Heaven only knows what they'd say if he was Piskie too.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Obama pic.
ReplyDeleteWhen Hillary was in Kentucky, she went to a Methodist Church. The sermon was on adultery! Had any other candidate gone to a service, I am sure the topic of the sermon would not have been mentioned.
In Episcopalian churches that Sunday, it was "Trinity Sunday." Sooo, I thought that it would have been at least much more comfortable had she attended an Episcopalian Church.
Ruth, I expect that whatever Obama does, the Republicans will try to Swiftboat him.
ReplyDeleteDoug, I heard about that sermon. Who hasn't? Let's say that if McCain went to church, the topic may not have been mentioned. About Obama, I'm not sure.
They are going to 'swiftboat' him with a vengeance, and with some success.
ReplyDeleteFr. Pfleger, who should have been a comedian instead of a priest, put the nail in the coffin, offending the one constituency that Obama must reach to win the election - the Blue Collar Democrats. Kiss Pennsylvania and Ohio goodbye, and with them the presidency.
Intellectuals can work their way through his remarks defending Farrakhan and mocking Hillary Clinton. Most blue collar Democrats are not intellectuals and will not work through it. They will be offended and feel threatened.
This is a much bigger problem than his campaign realizes at this point.
"When Hillary was in Kentucky, she went to a Methodist Church. The sermon was on adultery! Had any other candidate gone to a service, I am sure the topic of the sermon would not have been mentioned."
ReplyDeleteOdd. One or two things may be deduced: That particular Methodist Church was not following the Revised Common Lectionary to which its national parent body have subscribed; and two - they were after a cheap political smear!
Why preach at Clinton? She wasn't the one who transgressed. Obviously, they were not following the RCL. It would take real stretch and twist to make a sermon on adultery from last Sunday's readings. There was a baptism that morning at the service, too. It seems strange to stray from the RCL to preach on adultery when celebrating a baptism.
ReplyDeleteYou can be very sure they will play croquet. On the last occasion that there was public rioting in Newcastle, the Diocesan office competition went ahead floodlit by the burning pub and cars across the street.
ReplyDeleteCroquet is one of those quintessential elements of Diocesan life here. Like the inter-diocesn cricket trophy. I was not allowed to play being a rough pleb of poor stock.
I was not allowed to play being a rough pleb of poor stock.
ReplyDeleteTheMe, they played with the burning building and cars across the street! And they wouldn't let you play! That was mean. Well, I like you, no matter that your blood is not blue.
But did the blue-bloods lay out their own wickets, or did they have people to do that? Maybe rough plebs of poor stock.
I knew an English Woman who bragged about being of 'good peasant stock.' Perhaps, TheMe, you should look on you heritage in that manner.
ReplyDeleteAnd Rural Rector, being a former Methodist, I too wondered at their not using RCL.