No Cathedrals in my area to act as vaccination centres. Just town halls. My turn today! Welcomed into the lobby by a cheerful Hand-Sanitising Steward singing along to his CD player belting out Rod Stewart's 'Do you think I'm sexy'! Ah, happy memories of a slightly misspent youth.
No Cathedrals in my area to act as vaccination centres. Just town halls. My turn today! Welcomed into the lobby by a cheerful Hand-Sanitising Steward singing along to his CD player belting out Rod Stewart's 'Do you think I'm sexy'! Ah, happy memories of a slightly misspent youth.
The cathedral choir should sing, "Begone, unbelief" by John Newton. Its last verse seems particularly apposite:
Since all that I meet
Shall work for my good,
The bitter is sweet,
The medicine, food;
Though painful at present,
’Twill cease before long,
And then, oh, how pleasant
The conqueror’s song!
The cathedral choir should sing, "Begone, unbelief" by John Newton. Its last verse seems particularly apposite:
Since all that I meet
Shall work for my good,
The bitter is sweet,
The medicine, food;
Though painful at present,
’Twill cease before long,
And then, oh, how pleasant
The conqueror’s song!
No Cathedrals in my area to act as vaccination centres. Just town halls. My turn today! Welcomed into the lobby by a cheerful Hand-Sanitising Steward singing along to his CD player belting out Rod Stewart's 'Do you think I'm sexy'! Ah, happy memories of a slightly misspent youth.
Bit difficult with fixed pews, and narrow side aisles - it doesn't allow for too many places where you can have a jabber and jabbee meeting over a desk/table to do the paperwork bit (even if electronic), and one way flow of bodies is also a challenge.
One is also led to believe that TPTB wanted the building for a year. We're nowhere near the same size as Lichfield/Salisbury etc and it would impact a) when online recording could be done and b) would make services in person more awkward (as & when).
From the pictures I've seen on TV, at least one cathedral seems to be using its cloister and another its crypt, rather than the main worship spaces.
We do actually have a crypt, but only one door to it, and down an external stair which is narrow & slippery. No cloister. But in terms of size, our local cathedral would probably fit inside some of the larger English Parish Churches.
Well, when NZ gets going with the bulk of the vaccinations Christchurch Anglican Cathedral won't be used as it is still being demolished and re-built. The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, (Catholic) has only one storey left, while the new site is being used by rare gulls that have a breeding colony there. I think building may start in autumn when the gulls move out. St Francis of Assisi would definitely have approved.
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That was brilliant. I think I read somewhere that a number of them do study music.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56261397
Sigh 😁
Since all that I meet
Shall work for my good,
The bitter is sweet,
The medicine, food;
Though painful at present,
’Twill cease before long,
And then, oh, how pleasant
The conqueror’s song!
BTW did anyone else see on the news Dolly Parton's updated version of her song "Vaccine"? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56261397
We did indeed!
Bit difficult with fixed pews, and narrow side aisles - it doesn't allow for too many places where you can have a jabber and jabbee meeting over a desk/table to do the paperwork bit (even if electronic), and one way flow of bodies is also a challenge.
One is also led to believe that TPTB wanted the building for a year. We're nowhere near the same size as Lichfield/Salisbury etc and it would impact a) when online recording could be done and b) would make services in person more awkward (as & when).
We do actually have a crypt, but only one door to it, and down an external stair which is narrow & slippery. No cloister. But in terms of size, our local cathedral would probably fit inside some of the larger English Parish Churches.