12 August 2011

Now that is pretty

This French bishop, the Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre, has style.
The Pimpernel particularly likes the stole and matching decoration
around the collar of the chasuble. Pretty. 



Pity his deacons don't have matching outfits.


14 comments:

  1. Two things puzzle me:
    1. Where did this idea of chasubles having collars come from?
    2. Why is a stole, as here, placed OVER a chasuble?

    Perhaps someone can help...?

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  2. That was my comment. The stole goes under the chasuble.

    My diocese sponsores a daily live televised Mass. One priest who celebrates Mass is vested only in a stole, no chasuble. Nothing is done to correct his error because of his ongoing desent. So much for the diocese's teaching role.....

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  3. Where's his badge for liturgical propriety? Missing. Bad scout.

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  4. The deacons are missing their matching sets probably because they did not attend the same kindergarten.

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  5. And a crozier made of wood . . . gag.

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  6. " So much for the diocese's teaching role....."

    So much for the rubrics. This is a Novus Ordo-style bishop, as most bishops are. Which means you make it up as you go along and ignore the regulations.

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    1. What regulations? The bishops tossed those into the trash heap long ago with the full cooperation of the CDW.

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  7. And a crozier made of wood . . . gag.
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    All shepherd's staffs were once of wood. As a shepherd the bishop should carry a staff of wood and not a golden scepter or jeweled wand indicative of a prince or monarch.

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  8. Choice in croziers has a great deal to say about the prelate. Somewhere out there is a picture of Archbishop R. Williams brandishing what can only be described as a wooden stick crowned with a chicken claw. By the by, Anon @ 00:17, are we not all so grateful that shepherd bishops no longer dress is smelly sheep skins?

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    1. I would say its more like sheep merd.

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  9. LP,

    You should post a few pics of French bishops when their dress could be described as nothing short of prelatial awesomeness! (i.e. 17th-19th Cent.)

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  10. , Anon @ 00:17, are we not all so grateful that shepherd bishops no longer dress is smelly sheep skins?
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    I'll take the odor of lanolin from the sheep any day over the stench of hierarchical arrogance and worldliness being exuded by these pontifical cross dressers.

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  11. Almost to a man, the French bishops are despicable buffoons; notable exceptions include +Marc Aillet and +Dominique Rey. Small wonder few people take them seriously.

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    1. It's no small wonder most RCs today don't take any bishops seriously.

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