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Thread: Eccles: Blessed Sacrament Webcam
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Margaret
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Some time ago, before the chapel was blessed, I did some exploring of the website and somewhere on it I read that while he was waiting to be moved into the chapel Jesus was occupying one of the empty cells of the new building. The Monks had put his name on the door just as they put their names on their own cell doors.
Maybe that's it? We know that Jesus is sociable and likes being with people, and perhaps he's just got tired of sitting in somewhere that looks like an underground garage being glowered at over the altar by a pair of triffids. My guess is he's moved back to his cell and is hanging out happily with the Monks.
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Corpus cani
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The triffids are gone!
Question is, have they been moved or have they gone of their own accord and if so, where? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Cc
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R.A.M.
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If I am not very much mistaken the triffids popped to the local chandlers to pick up some new candles, which are now in situ, and then popped round the back for a smoke.
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Bishops Finger
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Please, God......bring on the Nuns soon!
Ian J.
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Margaret
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Even the triffids have given up now and have probably gone off to terrorise some other religious community...
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R.A.M.
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A Cross!!!
A cross, a cross!!!
The excitement is too much, is Jesus going to make an appearence??
A cross, a cross!!!
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Corpus cani
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It's a very... um... small cross isn't it? I mean in the sense of "blink and you'd miss" small.
Still, at least we know the munx are reading the Ship and are keen to prove that it's not a Blessed Sacrament Websham.
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Margaret
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I remember that cross - it made its appearance ages ago, and then disappeared again fairly fast. Have the triffids been holding it to ransom and tried to flee with it, only to be overtaken by the police and forced to hand it back to the Monks? Or did a Monk put it down somewhere when he was polishing it and then couldn't find it again?
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jlg
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I believe it appeared after Easter Sunday and stayed throught Octave of Easter.
Perhaps the Monks have their own kalendar and ordo. I don't recognize any pattern here, but I'm a total amateur.
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Oblatus
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Originally posted by jlg:
Perhaps the Monks have their own kalendar and ordo. I don't recognize any pattern here, but I'm a total amateur.
Sure wish they'd resume their online audio files of the Liturgy of the Hours. Or that some monastery would broadcast theirs (Holy Cross Monastery in Chicago has plans to resume theirs, but there's been no sign of that happening lately).
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Rossweisse
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quote:
Originally posted by Margaret:
I remember that cross - it made its appearance ages ago, and then disappeared again fairly fast. Have the triffids been holding it to ransom and tried to flee with it, only to be overtaken by the police and forced to hand it back to the Monks? Or did a Monk put it down somewhere when he was polishing it and then couldn't find it again?
Is this whole thing a hoax?
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Ann
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Well, they let Him out last night, (UK time).
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Ian Climacus
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Thank you and good work Ann. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
You have restored hope to this doubting and troubled soul.
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Corpus cani
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Should one genuflect to the monitor when viewing this?
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Bishops Finger
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It would be seemly and edifying to do so.
Ian J.
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Ann
Curious
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I was worried about this a while back; dj_ordinaire kindly put my mind at rest then, now you are disturbing me again.
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Bishops Finger
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No need to worry - dj_ordinaire's words are A True Saying And Worthy Of All Men To Be Believed. Thank you for drawing them to our attention!
Ian J.
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Rossweisse
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Thank you, Ann! I feel better now.
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R.A.M.
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Aha!
Our lord is out again, in his shiny little monstrance.
I wonder if it is comfortable.
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Wesley J
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All the candles are out, it seems! Is outrage!
The chapel's as dead as a doornail. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Rossweisse
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I'm picking up the NunPhone (equivalent to the Batphone, the Powerpuff Girls' line to the Mayor's Office and the famouse red phone of the Cold War) to summon help from abroad. This disgrace must not continue!
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Margaret
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
This disgrace must not continue!
I hope the nuns are on their way, with supplies of candles - the ones in the chapel still haven't been replaced.
Perhaps the triffids had been conscientious enough to take over after eating the monks, but now they've gone off to munch their way through the next lot of succulent religious there's no one left to care for the chapel until the nuns arrive...
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Bishops Finger
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I don't give much for the triffids' chances if they're still around when the nuns do arrive....
Ian J.
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Wesley J
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I think they should call themselves monksoffrustration.org.
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Rossweisse
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I'm sorry, but triffids simply have NO legitimate place in any remotely Christian establishment.
(Neither do tacky portraits of Jeez, but I digress.)
I think I'll see if any of the Bedfordshire lot would actually be interested in relocation to Flawrida.
(I wouldn't be, but then I don't boat, don't golf, and have a history of skin cancer.)
Ross // equally averse to triffids and Fla.
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Spiffy
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Well, the good news is, my sister's on her way to Florida tomorrow morning.
The bad news? She's not a nun.
At least they took Jesus out for a bit of fresh air, right? I really do hope everything's okay with our monks.
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Ann
Curious
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Well, they've let Him out for a breath of fresh air this evening - 5:29 Florida Time (10:29 BST).
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Corpus cani
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Well, I've finally seen Him.
Bit disappointed really. I expected a bit more, y'know, pzazz. Still there you go.
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Ann
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Come on Cc, this is not a site with pizazz!
(The old house-monastery-chapel was slightly more pizazzful, but only slightly.)
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Rossweisse
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No, the wretched undisguised cinder-block construction militates against any facsimile of pizzazz.
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Wesley J
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Yay! The chapel's been candle-ised, at long last! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
And a tiny cross lingering on the top centre of the altar, anew! Hallewhatever!
(They need a woman to look after the chapel, them monks, they do! - She wouldn't let the lights go out, and'd tell 'em off mightily! Oh mama! ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) )
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Ann
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Do you think they deliberately line the Crucifix up so that the cross-bar is in line with the back edge of the altar from the point-of-view of the webcam, or did it happen once by accident and no-one's moved it since?
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Rossweisse
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Ann, do you think they might have done it just in the hopes of exciting comment from us, and seeing if we're still paying attention?
(It's all about us.)
Ross
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Ann
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Well, if I'd let this thread fall off onto page 3, they might have given up altogether, and I couldn't have that on my conscience.
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Rossweisse
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Ann, yours is a spirit of true saintliness and nobility.
Ross
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Wesley J
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Folks - the camera's zoomed in now on the altar. One might even see more details of our Lord, should He (His name be praised!) ever ventured into the opnen again!
![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Corpus cani
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Ewww. They've zoomed on the horrid altar so we can't see the rest of the horrid chapel - and Jesus still isn't out!
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jlg
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But now I can see what Ann was talking about with the horizontal bar of the cross being visually lined up with the edge of the altar.
Does anyone else find the strong elongated shadows cast by the candles distracting/annoying/bad ?
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Rossweisse
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Originally posted by jlg:
...Does anyone else find the strong elongated shadows cast by the candles distracting/annoying/bad ?
Yes.
(Love the zoom; it lets me concentrate on the mortar lines between cinder blocks... )
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Spiffy
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We need to gather some cash to get the beloved monks a couple of buckets of paint!
[realised that I should probably throw my ten bucks into the Organ Fund, first]
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Ian Climacus
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The picture of OLaSJC isn't much clearer on the Zoom mode.
What sort of outer garment do you think he is wearing? It looks rather oatmeal in colour to me, and I think can see what I guess to be white around his left elbow.
I wouldn't be pondering this representation if the real thing would come out now and again.
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Margaret
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I'm sure Jesus looked better-dressed in the old chapel; I think it's the murky lighting that gives the horrible homespun effect.
And as for those shadows - I did wonder if they were deliberately meant to lead the eye towards the wall safe, er, tabernacle, but I think that's being a bit optimistic about the Monks' aesthetic sense.
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Rossweisse
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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy da WonderSheep:
We need to gather some cash to get the beloved monks a couple of buckets of paint!
[realised that I should probably throw my ten bucks into the Organ Fund, first]
I applaud you: You have your priorities in the right place.
Margaret, I don't think it's safe to assume that the monks HAVE any aesthetic sense. Or if they do, it's a negative sense.
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Corpus cani
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The munx must be Shipmates - The zoom has gone!
Deo gracias. I truly found it much more depressing than the usual view. If I weren't on the verge of penury, I'd send a few quid for some limewash or plastering or something. Anything to stop it looking like a scene from "Prisoner Cell Block H."
Praying for the munx.
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Margaret
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And hallelujah, look - Jesus is out! ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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Corpus cani
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Originally posted by Margaret:
And hallelujah, look - Jesus is out!
Well, hallelujah, He might have been when you posted at 19:04 my time, but He wasn't by 19:15 my time.
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Ann
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"Oooh", I thought, "Must go and see", I thought.
And all I saw was a monk sneaking out the back (last picture on this page, so far).
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Margaret
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Sorry to raise people's hopes in vain - they don't trust him out on his own for long, do they? Perhaps they think he'll do a runner and go back to the old chapel.
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Rossweisse
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Originally posted by Margaret:
Sorry to raise people's hopes in vain - they don't trust him out on his own for long, do they? Perhaps they think he'll do a runner and go back to the old chapel.
He never WAS very good about staying where he was put.
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