After Mass today, and the consecration of the parish to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, taking phone calls and trying to skim a little off the paperwork menacingly building up on my desk, I went over to St Wilfrid's Hall at the London Oratory where a mobile studio for
EWTN was all set up for Joanna Bogle (
Auntie Joanna) to do a series of interviews for the series
Catholic Lives. We did two fifteen minute sessions on the priesthood, the parish, the Church in England, blogging and vocation. It was great to meet the EWTN team as well as Marcus Grodi and his wife who were also in London.
Afterwards, Joanna and I went next door to the Victoria and Albert Museum for tea. Here is the tea:
And here is the setting:
It is a good place to have tea since you have to walk past various glorious exhibits to get to the tea room. On the way back, we stopped to look at this beautiful 16th century chalice:
In the entrance lobby, we were confronted by a ludicrous blob hanging from the ceiling, obscuring the Victorian Gothic architecture. I did a quick interview with Joanna on my mini camcorder and will post that on YouTube in due course.
And here is the setting:
It is a good place to have tea since you have to walk past various glorious exhibits to get to the tea room. On the way back, we stopped to look at this beautiful 16th century chalice:
In the entrance lobby, we were confronted by a ludicrous blob hanging from the ceiling, obscuring the Victorian Gothic architecture. I did a quick interview with Joanna on my mini camcorder and will post that on YouTube in due course.
6 comments:
Father, can you tell us when you are on EWTN please?
Sounds wonderful!
I loved the V&A--my favorite museum in London. It seems sad, though, that none of these beautiful works are being used anymore in the Church. I feel the same way about these pieces as I do about the stories of high altars that were removed in the sixties now being placed in private homes as a decoration or status symbol.
Father, can you tell us when you are on EWTN please?
Actually, I forgot to ask when the programmes would be broadcast! I'll try and remember to ask Joanna.
You know that on Facebook there is a group called "I can't stop reading the hermeneutic of continuity"?
It is the source of the following
Lines In Honour Of The First Blogiversary Of The Hermeneutic Of Continuity
I found a blog by Rev Tim Finigan
Known as 'Blogger Extraordin-igan'
Fond of all things Tridentin' -igan
Old Rite Mass is 'in' again (begin again)
Checked that blog by Fr Finigan
'Christophobes' can see no sin-igan
BBC won't reign them in-igan
Just as well we've Finigan (begin again)
Every evening I log in-igan
Catch the news from Father Finigan
Just can't stop once I begin-igan
Where'd we be without him-igan? (begin again)
Edmund J. Thribb (aged 25 1/2)
Mr Thribb - I am most flattered by your temporary transfer from the pages of Private Eye to the nebulous realm of Facebook in my honour. I do not deserve this!
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