Monday, 24 November 2008

All in white shall wait around

I preached my first sermon at St George's Chesterton yesterday, and I got to dress up to do so.

No jeans and T-shirt preaching here - in the attached picture you see me in an ordinand's robes. Close inspection may lead you to the conclusion that the robe is borrowed - you'd be right - I'll have to buy my own before I'm ordained, and I might even consider not wearing trainers for the occasion.
Preaching from the same pulpit as a former curate, one Rowan Williams, was a novel experience - I was elevated to on high and was looking down onto the masses. It was a bit wierd to have everybody straining their necks to see me, and to be constrained in the box, not wandering around a stage on a radio mike.
All very different from St Mary's Ferndown. Which is why I'm there.

2 comments:

The Automated Ramblings of Auntie Ratchett said...

I really am a short a**e aren't I?! You do look very fetching though.

Rachelx

Anonymous said...

MMMMMMM Nice Cassock Alb. I have a real problem with this particular vestment, the same one I had to wear for Ordination and Priesting - it just has a look of someone coming from a Klan meeting - this is not a good look for the Church of Christ! At my ordination there were 17 candidates and it really did look like the Salisbury District KKK meeting. For myself I ended up buying a Cassock-style Cassock Alb, that although white doesn't have a hood. Mind you now the two biggies are over I intend to never wear it again....