tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post8803737876203467195..comments2024-02-08T17:05:51.909+00:00Comments on Solomon, I Have Surpassed Thee: Lighting EffectsMark Langhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05040760021187483441noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-3562408582828113542007-03-19T00:45:00.000+00:002007-03-19T00:45:00.000+00:00Is (has?) the catafalque been used on All Souls Da...Is (has?) the catafalque been used on All Souls Day?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-23271848086575847042007-03-17T17:22:00.000+00:002007-03-17T17:22:00.000+00:00Have you seen the newsreel footage of the cathedra...Have you seen the newsreel footage of the cathedral available from www.britishpathe.com, including the lying-in-state of Cardinal Griffin, as well as Cardinal Hinsley's funeral?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-46022528011194225782007-03-17T15:24:00.000+00:002007-03-17T15:24:00.000+00:00Glorious photo.And that is a wonderful catafalque....Glorious photo.<BR/><BR/>And that is a wonderful catafalque.Archistrategoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05495771160792293715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-5248799505129158752007-03-17T00:03:00.000+00:002007-03-17T00:03:00.000+00:00There is no marble revetment on the piers on eithe...There is no marble revetment on the piers on either side of the sanctuary. Perhaps this might give some indication as to the date of the photo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-41768233668480006922007-03-16T21:00:00.000+00:002007-03-16T21:00:00.000+00:00The walls are not yet covered in marble, and there...The walls are not yet covered in marble, and there is what looks like a huge 1950s television camera on the pulpit - so it's probably Cardinal Griffin's funeral in 1956.<BR/><BR/>And it is indeed a wonderful photograph.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-87589134798132933072007-03-16T20:44:00.000+00:002007-03-16T20:44:00.000+00:00Thank you for posting this wonderful phoograph. Th...Thank you for posting this wonderful phoograph. The strange thing is that the rite looks so simple and dignified compared with the complicated looking concelebrations we see now and everyone appears to be concentrated on and towards the Altar.One Christ,One Priest,One Mass,One Altar.<BR/>Can we see,please,more of the Cathedral liturgy from the past ?<BR/>Alan RobinsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-19153215361167650752007-03-16T20:05:00.000+00:002007-03-16T20:05:00.000+00:00The (?) because I'm guessing the photograph is of ...The (?) because I'm guessing the photograph is of Cardinal Griffin's funeral - it could just be Cardinal Hinsley, or Cardinal Godfrey (one of our chaplains told me he was at Cardinal Godfrey's funeral in 1962, and the apse windows were similarly covered, but the photograph looks older than that).Mark Langhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05040760021187483441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-65426186347259155402007-03-16T17:08:00.000+00:002007-03-16T17:08:00.000+00:00Wonderful photograph.I feel it is so evocative of ...Wonderful photograph.<BR/><BR/>I feel it is so evocative of the solemnity and beauty of the rite as it was then. <BR/><BR/>I watched Cardinal Hume's Requiem and it didn't have the same sort of feel to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3115875609078917723.post-2773922421223576752007-03-16T15:03:00.000+00:002007-03-16T15:03:00.000+00:00Why the (?) ?Why the (?) ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com