Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• Sacrament light. Photo taken by my old acquaintance Fr Michael Greene at St Luke’s, Dixon, Illinois where he is rector.
• Fr T.E. Jones on bishops: In the days of much and busy episcopi vagantes activity it was, legend claims, the then-Principal of S. Stephen’s House who claimed that episcopal position was not about hands on heads, but, b*** on seats.
• A friendly chat with a bishop on this.
• New Roman Breviary site. Marvellous! Cleaner design and easier to use than breviary.net which has been of much use through the years. Drawbacks: it’s still under construction so not everything’s up yet and there’s no side-by-side vernacular translation, Bishop Dolan’s Tudoresque English one or otherwise; it will remain only in Latin. From Fr Z.
• Statues and icons.
• Fr Hunwicke: I wonder how the Mysteries of Light are bedding down. My pennorth.
• The Sunday called Sexagesima.
• Meeting of the Lord. Russian Orthodox Candlemas. Mary the Mother of God carried in her arms the Lord who rideth the chariot of the cherubim and is praised with the hymns of the seraphim. He was incarnate of her without human seed; he is the lawgiver who fulfilleth the precepts of the law. She handed him over into the arms of the aged priest. Holding the Life in person, Simeon asked to be delivered of his present life, saying, ‘Now dismiss me, O Master, that I may tell Adam how mine eyes have seen the everlasting God who was made man without undergoing change, and who brought about the salvation of the world’. Also the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.