Thursday, September 09, 2010

Pantokrator installed!

I have been meaning to get back to the blog for quite a while but never seemed to manage it. I was going to write about my trip to Scotland. No sooner had Fr Briggs returned from his trip to France with Fr Finigan as recorded on the Hermeneutic than after a busy weekend in his parish he set off north to join me at the Edinburgh Festival and a couple of days in St Andrews. I had meant to write about finally fulfilling a long held ambition to get to Dunfermline and what I learnt about the bones of St Andrew and St Wilfrid but it was the arrival of Davey and Brian, the joiners, to set up the Pantokrator icon (which I have discovered is known as Christ the Teacher if the book is open) which eventually got me to the computer keyboard. It was on Tuesday this week that they came and did a very good job in setting up the icon. You can see the results below. I think it completely transforms the feel of the church. I look forward to hearing what the parishioners think at the weekend. I do agree with comments made on the previous posting that we could do with an altar frontal and hope to do something about that. Well done Sr Petra Clare and thank you.




5 comments:

well-wisher said...

Do you really, really look forward to hearing what the parishioners think?

madame evangelista said...

What a difference it makes! It is hard now to imagine it the way it was before. Sure your parish will love it.

Fr Michael Brown said...

Well-wisher, there are always complaints about anything new at all but being an optimist I like to think that some will respond positively. I had no trouble with the parish when I suggested it, which has not always elsewhere. I`ll put out an explanation of the symbolism and the position of the icon.

FrankE said...

It looks great, Father.
Now all you need is the altar pushed back towards the tabernacle...

Augustine said...

Very impressive!