Wednesday 28 March 2007

Flowers in Lent!

Not quite what is meant by a 'Lenten array'! Following a memorial service, these flowers were donated to Clergy House, and here they stand, magnificently defiant of the season, in the Common Room. This photo was snapped last Friday, before the crucifix was veiled. The crucifix (or more properly the 'corpus') is a fine early ivory work, unaccountably set on perspex by Mgr Barltett!

5 comments:

Jay said...

Do all crucifixes need to be veiled, inside Church and maybe ones at home too?

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Mark Langham said...

In theory, all religious images - public and private - should be veiled (although a note of practicality has to be struck!).

Anonymous said...

Has the huge cross in the cathedral that suspends its self from the ceiling every been covered? Could it ever be covered in the future?

Mark Langham said...

The huge cross in the Cathedral -the Great Rood - cannot be covered becuase of its size (30 feet), and its height above the nave (almost 150 feet!).