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Peronel
The typo slayer
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I have this overwhelming urge to keep watching it just to see if Jesus moves.
"Updated every minute". What do you reckon he's up to in that unobserved 59 seconds?
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Wm Duncan
Buoy tender
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Oh my. Does that work online? And does it work if the image covers 6% of the screen, and the remaining 94% are covered with fundraising?
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Why does their Jesus need two vigil lamps? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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The Scrumpmeister
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Am I being uncharitable in saying that the whole idea is a little naff?
[ 14. December 2004, 02:53: Message edited by: Back-to-Front ]
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Back-to-Front:
Am I being uncharitable in saying that the whole idea is a little naff?
If you are then we both are. That's more than a little naff.
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anglicanrascal
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quote:
Originally posted by Mousethief:
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Originally posted by Back-to-Front:
Am I being uncharitable in saying that the whole idea is a little naff?
If you are then we both are. That's more than a little naff.
The whole worshipping the sacrament thing is naff, so I out-uncharitable the both of you!
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How long do we have to watch for before a monk bustles in to give His Little House a dust?
And yes. On the Universal DJ Scale of Naffness, this scores at least 400% of a pair of pink fluffy dice. We're in serious garden gnome territory here, and I don't like it.
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Wm Duncan
Buoy tender
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I keep clicking on the lights, the tabernacle, the picture ... trying to get something to happen.
Of course, if I were to plop myself down in real life, in the presence of the sacrament, I might find myself "clicking" stuff too ... at least mentally, trying to get something to happen.
That's what happens when I try for silence elsewhere.
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Siegfried
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Wow.
Does he come out to check the mail midday? Put the cat out at night? Bring in the milk bottles in the morning? If not... why refresh that often?
Sieg
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Hooker's Trick
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Wouldn't it be better if Our Lord were in a monstrance so that we could actually see him down the little electronic lanes?
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jlg
What is this place?
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Hey! There was a monstrance there last night when I checked the link.
Perhaps all these hits from the Ship have frightened Jesus back into his tabernacle? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
And the webcam is now at a different angle, which answers my earlier question about the vigil lamps -- there is one for the tabernacle and one for the monstrance (the front one, which is now out, since Jesus is only in the background, not on the front table).
Naffer and naffer!
[ 14. December 2004, 19:08: Message edited by: jlg ]
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Wm Duncan
Buoy tender
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Originally posted by jlg:
Why does their Jesus need two vigil lamps?
I think they have two lamps in case one goes out ... as it seems to have done. The other is pretty low too. Maybe we should send them some money for a new candle.
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What is this place?
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My edit cross-posted with you, Wm.
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Having browsed a page or two (and resisted the temptation to subscribe to their 'Buck a Brick' campaign), I was greatly diverted by their description of the proposed cemetery as a monk's retirement home.........
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What is this place?
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Oooh, oooh, oooh, a monk has just appeared in the little window, lit the vigil lamp and now the monstrance is back!
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Curious
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Jesus has come out to play?
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Well, Our Lord is currently obscured by someone's shoulder. I can't wait for the next instalment.
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Callan
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Originally posted by William Duncan:
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I keep clicking on the lights, the tabernacle, the picture ... trying to get something to happen.
If our Lord were in a monstrance one could click on that and get a tinny electronic rendition of 'Tantum Ergo Sacramentum'. That would be groovy!
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mousethief
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If we give them some of our oil for their lamps, we may not have enough for our own. Tell them to go buy some from the dealers.
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Peronel
The typo slayer
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Oo! Ooo! Both the lamps are out and the picture's gone dark.
Does this mean Jesus has gone away?
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Wm Duncan
Buoy tender
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What I want to know is, if their website were to send me a Cookie, would I have to go to confession before I could receive it?
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Originally posted by Wm Duncan:
What I want to know is, if their website were to send me a Cookie, would I have to go to confession before I could receive it?
Depends. Did you vote for any Democrats? In the RC archdiocese in which I currently find myself, that's a sin, and you have to go to confession before you can receive if you punched a chad for Kerry and his ilk.
Oooh! They've changed the candles, and the flames are now at the tops! It's a different look for the altar.
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jlg
What is this place?
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I was rummaging in the MW cellars and found this again.
Sorry, Siegfried!
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Jack the Lass
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I was looking for this thread a couple of weeks back - did anybody else see the Christmas crib?
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babybear
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This is really intrigues me. I want to see these things too, but the image (although flashing once a minute) is unchanging.
Is my faith too small? When it the best time to see?
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jlg
What is this place?
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I haven't seen anything since I revived it, bb. I'm not even sure if the vigil lamp is lit -- we may be looking at an empty tomb! Except if it's empty, the door should be open. I dunno.
[ 17. January 2005, 00:19: Message edited by: jlg ]
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Emma Louise
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im begining to think you guys watching this are worse than those that watch big brother..... at least things happen on big brother!!!
(imagining people hooked on watching this site and then sharing gossip about when things happen... ohhh, this *is* whats happening ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) )
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Originally posted by jlg:
-- we may be looking at an empty tomb! Except if it's empty, the door should be open. I dunno.
Careful there, Jen. Youse guys are straying into the realm of hellish parody. Perhaps this thread ought to be, as they say, "bumped down."
If not, I can assure you that the tomb is not empty. I got this nifty camera for Christmas. Want me to prove it?
tomb
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As Tom Lehrer put it, "Two, Four, Six, Eight; Ready to transubstantiate." Vatican Rag
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Chesterbelloc
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I've yet to see anything happen, but the door behind the altar (sacristy?) is ajar right now - something must be about to occur! The excitement is scarcely tolerable ...
CB
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The rest of the site has good stuff too.
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Before joining my community I used to lead a rosary group in my parish church. Over time I began to experience the loneliness of Jesus left alone most of the day in a locked church. I am not unique in this experience. An artist friend of mine has spent many ours before the Blessed Sacrament in prayer and had a similar experience. Whe I heard about Perpetual Adoration I thought this would solve the problem of Our Lord's loneliness. I talked to the pastor but he was not encouraging. I tried to show a video after Mass about Perpetual Adoration. In trying to get to church to show it I had a flat tire and the car almost fell off the jack. It was a bit discouraging when I got there because hardly anyone showed up to see the video. But I did not give up. I went to another parish and the priest there was more encouraging. He offered to build a special chapel for it. So if you can't get your parish to cooperate, try another one!
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First, we know that the Sacred Heart of Jesus has asked us to make a return of love to Him in this sacrament, and of course, this is echoed by His Mother's Immaculate Heart. The reason to establish it is as simple as one word__love. Jesus loves us and cares that people spend time with Him. Imagine how happy Our Lord will be if we bring people in our parish to love Him with Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.
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Jesus told this same sister that at the Last Supper He was grieved "at the many who would leave Me deserted in My tabernacle and who would not even believe in My Real Presence...Sacrileges and outrages, and all the nameless abominations to be committed against Me passed before My eyes...The long, lonely hours of the day and of the night in which I would remain alone on the altars...I desire that My love in the Blessed
Sacrament should be the sun to enlighten every heart and the heart to reanimate every soul...It is this love that keeps Me a prisoner in the tabernacle. For nearly twenty centuries I have dwelt there, night and day, veiled under the species of bread and concealed in the small white Host, bearing through love neglect, solitude, contempt, blasphemies, outrages and sacrileges."
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I find that deeply, deeply disturbing.
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Perhaps it's time for a few verses of "O Happy Pyx".
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Ship's Roundhead
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Originally posted by babybear:
I find that deeply, deeply disturbing.
And most clearly heretical. Jesus is a prisoner? The Second Person of the Trinity is lonely?
It makes you wander if the best thing to do would be to break in and liberate him. Maybe take him to the pub.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Chesterbelloc
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Originally posted by ken:
Maybe take him to the pub.
What Would Jesus Drink?
"A pint of best for me please, barman, and a glass of pure fermented grape of the vine for my friend - he's been feeling a bit down lately."
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I'm quite disturbed by the thought of enabling Active Desktop on Windows and making this webpage my background.
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Callan
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Originally posted by Ken:
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It makes you wander if the best thing to do would be to break in and liberate him. Maybe take him to the pub.
The Jesus Liberation Front. Cool!
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quote:
Originally posted by Chesterbelloc:
What Would Jesus Drink?
Maybe I'll get one of those WWJD bracelets after all...
Obviously he drinks Bombay Sapphire. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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When I clicked on the link just now, all that was there was an empty space with a little cross in the corner. OK, own up - who was the liberator?
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Chesterbelloc
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quote:
Originally posted by cocktailgirl:
Maybe I'll get one of those WWJD bracelets after all...
Obviously he drinks Bombay Sapphire.
Natch - the bottle puts Him in mind of of His holy Mother.
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dj_ordinaire
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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
It makes you wander if the best thing to do would be to break in and liberate him. Maybe take him to the pub.
Given his obvious love of fish, perhaps a chippie would be better?
Given that an omnipresent Being's loneliness can't be anything to do with where he is anyway, it probably doesn't matter...
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Chesterbelloc
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Originally posted by Wm Duncan:
quote:
Originally posted by jlg:
Why does their Jesus need two vigil lamps?
I think they have two lamps in case one goes out ... as it seems to have done. The other is pretty low too. Maybe we should send them some money for a new candle.
Wm Duncan
I can put you both out of your misery (sorry to have prolonged the agony) - the tabernacle is behind the freestanding altar in the chapel. The angle of the shot lets us see the gospel-side of the altar and its candle (with, confusingly, a red glass shade), behind which is the lamp and tabernacle.
Personally, I hate this kind of set-up, because (assuming, as is most likely, the celebrations are "over-the-counter") the celebrant has his back to the SS until he has confected Our Lord on the altar.
Being so liturgically sensitive is exquisitely painful ...
CB
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Originally posted by Chesterbelloc:
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Originally posted by cocktailgirl:
Maybe I'll get one of those WWJD bracelets after all...
Obviously he drinks Bombay Sapphire.
Natch - the bottle puts Him in mind of of His holy Mother.
The BVM looks like Queen Victoria?
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Originally posted by Hooker's Trick:
]The BVM looks like Queen Victoria?
The true AC Tory never would never doubt this for a minute. Looks like Her Majesty, smells of gin. Oh, and obviously the crown.
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jlg
What is this place?
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quote:
Originally posted by Chesterbelloc:
I can put you both out of your misery (sorry to have prolonged the agony) - the tabernacle is behind the freestanding altar in the chapel. The angle of the shot lets us see the gospel-side of the altar and its candle (with, confusingly, a red glass shade), behind which is the lamp and tabernacle.
Personally, I hate this kind of set-up, because (assuming, as is most likely, the celebrations are "over-the-counter") the celebrant has his back to the SS until he has confected Our Lord on the altar.
Being so liturgically sensitive is exquisitely painful ...
CB
Actually, I figured that out right after I posted my question; thought I had said as much, but probably never actually made the post.
And I share your liturgical pain, as I discovered to my surprise after my initial joy at seeing our tabernacle moved front and center, thereby displacing the horrible arrangement of celebrants and servers sitting behind the altar. Though the poor tabernacle very much deserved to be rescued from its horrible location surrounded by the electronic detritus of the choir side of the sanctuary (not to mention the tacky electric vigil lamp!).
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Too tacky for words, darlings. Actually, when I think about it, there's something quite creepy about the whole operation.
J
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quote:
Originally posted by Chesterbelloc:
Personally, I hate this kind of set-up, because (assuming, as is most likely, the celebrations are "over-the-counter") the celebrant has his back to the SS until he has confected Our Lord on the altar.
Being so liturgically sensitive is exquisitely painful ...
CB
Is this an Anlgican fetish?
If Anglicans had the sacred sacrament, would they walk backwards during the recessional, so as to avoid the liturgical insensitivity of having their backs to Our Lord?
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PG Trailer for 15 film.
Narrator: The prisoner of the Vatican
Cut to shot of monastery surrounded by armed guards. Cut to shot of tabernacle. Inside a muffled voice can be heard.
Our Lord (for it is He): Help! Help !
Cut to a shot of an office in Whitehall. A man sits behind a desk. Another sits in front.
Narrator: Hooker’s Trick, a man with a vision.
Hooker’s Trick: I want you to get Jesus out of there.
Narrator: Callan, a man with a plan.
Callan: Why me?
HT: Because you’re expendable! Put together a team. You’ve got twenty-eight days.
Cut to shot of Callan briefing his team.
Callan: We need small arms.
Narrator: Marine Colonel Mark T. Punk.
Cut to shot of Mark the Punk, re-assembling an AK-47 blindfolded.
Callan: The map of the monastery is kept in a safe in Cardinal Ratzinger’s apartment.
Narrator: Safecracking expert, Cocktailgirl.
Cut to shot of Cocktailgirl, in a black jumpsuit with clerical collar climbing over the balcony of Ratzinger’s apartment at night.
Callan: We need to hack into their security systems.
Narrator: Chorister, computer wizard.
Cut to shot of Chorister at her computer, her fingers flying over the keyboard.
Callan: Have you got the humeral veil?
Narrator: Chesterbelloc, Tat expert
Cut to shot of Chesterbelloc walking out of Gamarelli’s with a package under his arm.
Callan: Nitroglycerine.
Narrator: Ken, explosives expert.
Cut to shot of Ken fiddling with a detonator whilst the team watches anxiously.
Callan: Now remember…
Ken: (Michael Caine voice) I’m only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
Narrator: The Italian Mission Job. Coming soon to a cinema near you.
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