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Ship of Fools: St Edmund’s, Hunstanton, Norfolk, England

The Mystery WorshipperThe Mystery Worshipper Shipmate
edited January 6 in The Mystery Worshipper

imageShip of Fools: St Edmund’s, Hunstanton, Norfolk, England

Welcomed in on a stormy day by a golden retriever for parish eucharist

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  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Ah, there’s no better greeting than that of a golden retriever.

    But red, not white, on Christ the King?


  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    According to Common Worship, Christ the King can be celebrated with either red or white. Some churches - perhaps St Edmund's - use red for the Sundays before Advent, so maybe that's why red was in evidence on this particular occasion.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    ETA:

    As I expect you know, liturgical colours are not mandatory in the C of E, and local use is often followed.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Thanks. @Bishops Finger. I do know that liturgical colors are not mandatory in the CofE, but I haven’t encountered red as an option for Christ the King or for Sundays before Advent. Interesting.


  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    It is unusual, but, as we see, not unknown. It may have something to do with the Kingdom season which some churches observe between All Saints and Christ the King, but which Our Place rigorously eschews.

  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited January 7
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    It may have something to do with the Kingdom season which some churches observe between All Saints and Christ the King, but which Our Place rigorously eschews.
    Another all-but-unknown thing on the west side of the Atlantic, except among some United Methodists. (And I think it’s pretty much disappeared among United Methodist.)


  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    It's fairly recent here, I think. Not sure if our Cathedral observes it - they do seem to latch on to any new Common Worship stuff - but it does give the red vestments and altar frontal etc. a bit more of an outing...
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    I believe that gold vestments (made of cloth of gold, not simply cotton or linen dyed gold) can substitute for either white or red.
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    Here is the current rubric about liturgical colours in the RCC
    "On more solemn days, festive, that is, more precious, sacred vestments may be used even if not of the colour of the day."
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