More Pictures of Tuesday's Mass
The Rector of the Shrine, Fr Stephen (he's the one in blue) and the 'altar party' - fiddlebacks are the only option in the present heat wave!
(Photos courtesy of Br Aldo Leone of the Heralds of the Gospel)
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4 Comments:
That's as good an excuse as any for fiddlebacks!
Aren't the fiddlebacks and those altar servettes/vestal virgins/whatever you want to call them, a little bit of a contradiction?
Just my thoughts...
Mind you Our Lady of Wilesden is the only church I have seen to possess a blue roman chasuble for Our Lady - which I believe you need an indult from the Holy See to wear?
Since I'm only the curate it's not my place to say too much - however, it is licit to wear fiddlebacks in the presence of girl altar servers, even if it might seem a perplexing case of 'something old and something new.'
Argh well - can have everything good can we. I know a few Oratorian fathers that might drop dead at the sight of an altar girl.
I do sometimes wish that they would allow blue vestments to be used for the feasts of Our Lady.
There is a good collection of fiddleback chasuble pics from this really good website:
http://dappledphotos.blogspot.com/
The cappa mangna page is my favourite. It' ll make you cry on how much we have chucked out for the "noble simplicity" rubbish :(
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