Are those sea turtle earrings?
Is Mr. Blackwell still alive?
You heard the recording, Sarah.
I was just thinking we need a couple more oven mitts around Ockham manor....
Smugly anonymous
Presiding Bishop or Model for Crayola Crayons?
Comments are to address the garments and not become personal attacks. Please direct your comments accordingly.
Commenatrix
Good one, Mrs. Lawrence!!!
"Is Mr. Blackwell still alive?"--
No, Sarah...you heard him die laughing, didn’t you?
Mousestalker - I’m still laughing
I had been assuming that the color pattern was a rainbow and had a political message. But I just noticed that it is not in the color pattern of a real rainbow at all.
"Not only are all colors weaker than white, and not only does Saruman change “coats,” but his “coat” also changes color continuosly. It is comparable to his constant change in loyalties.”
Wandering Paths
I thought this was a leg-pulling, but maybe not.
Ugly enough to make me go low church. What is it with this hideous multi-color vestments that have nothing to do with the liturgical season and look like discarded costumes from an Andrew Loyd Webber musical? Surely they have heard of Almy or Whippels, they have lots of tasteful stuff. Another Bishop who has hideous,Schoriesque taste in vestments is Bishop Andrus, sadly I don’t have a good picture handy. I think this the clerical garb of the Church of the new thing. Although I have seen some liberal, Roman Catholic priest,such my aunt and uncles priest wearing the same kind of horrible, nasty, crap.
When I saw this I first thought “Great Photoshop!” Now am I to understand that she voluntarily put that mitre/oven mitt on?
If I were to engage in pseudo-psychological profiling in regard to the meaning of this get-up as one other did on another thread about +Iker’s Palm Sunday missive to his clergy, I should be banned forthwith. Hence I shall not. But that miter has been taking ENZYTE (TM) ........ fortunately for the South Pacific, that’s advertised as all-natural!
Father Cantrell points out that the $150k payola to Dawani was collected a year ago.
“Now, remember Dawani, we want a blow by blow of everything that goes down at GAFCon. You remember who your sugar momma is.”
I never noticed before - the stripes on her cape match the miter. Actually, it’s disarming really. She looks like a happy, mischievous little kid dressing up in a patchwork quilt.
Somewhere Carmen Miranda is spinning in her grave.
Actually, those stripes remind me of the test patterns you used to get on your tv set before the tv broadcast day begins.
What! No Joan Rivers Red Carpet comments?????? Surely she must have something to say!
I keep imagining what must be going through her mind… in her hotel room before the service, an array of mitres laid out on the bed, when she strokes her chin and says, “Yep… I’m definitely going with the rainbow.”
Looks like that fish hat is a rainbow trout. Perhaps we should seek the Lord’s direction on humble vestments.
Greg, after looking at this ridiculous outfit numerous times, it finally hit me.
What could say All Is Well better than the purloined NBC peacock symbol and the PB’s “challenge me and I’ll depose you” grin. It puts all the outrageous evil and overconfidence of TEC together in one photo. And, a terrific giggle factor!
There is one thing missing… I got it! A hammer and sickle embroidered on the front of that mitre.
Makes it easy to see where that Easter Message came from.
After I stopped laughing at the “Oven Mitt” headwear, I noticed the puckered seam of her orphrey. Last week we learned she can’t spot bad canonical advice from Mr. Beers. This week we see she can’t spot bad sewing, either. Perhaps she was overcome by Middle Eastern camel “methane”.
BUt note how the oven mit mitre is cocked at a very jaunty angle. Obviously she is feelin’ good and ready to kick some reasserter butt.
the snarkster
The rainbow in this context is the symbol of gay pride...she is clearly demonstrating what is the point and center of her theology. This church is no longer about pleasing God, its about pleasing man. The leadership of this church has slipped from heresy to paganism.
This reminds me of the story Bp. Soto used to tell. Seems he stopped by the nursery on his way into the church service, in his full regalia—which was the “normal” regalia, by the way. Some child asked him where he was going and he answered “To church!” and the child responded “Like that?!?”
It’s embarrassing to see these clown suit travesties of vestments. This and the outfit she wore for her installation as PB, along with VGR’s ghastly “flaming” outfit at his consecration are about as tacky and buffoonish as one can get. At least FTG usually wore proper vestments. Not that there aren’t plenty of other awful, modernist, abstract designs out there. Whatever happened to dignity, majesty and beauty?
Let he/she who has never committed fashion sins cast the first stone Man looks on the outside, while God looks at the heart.
Signed humbly yours, “A Confirmed Fashion Failure” (my ‘tween daughter despairs of me and I hide in fear of the “Fashion Police")
(while at the same time, admitting it definitely evokes giggles...and visualizing a flatulent cow sillouette on the miter, crossed out with a red X) Yes, I am a double-minded person. )
I think she is trying to implement a cost saving measure for TEc. She is trying to come up with a set of vestments that can be worn for every day of the church year by including all the colors of the church year in one outfit. That or she is getting prepped for the next DioCal full inclusion event in the Castro District of San Francisco. This rig should win a prize there.
May I offer this teensy-weensy offering for your amusement?
I am reminded of an “I Love Lucy” T.V. show in which Lucy is in a rehearsal for a dance number with a chorus line. She is selected as the lead dancer and given a headdress far larger and heavier than any of the other women. It is so large and heavy that she is hardly able to stand under the weight. When her head tips one way or another the weight of the hat moves her whole body in that direction. It is hysterical as Lucy attempts to ascend and descend the stairs that are part of the scenery for the production number. I wonder if that is what happens when the PB celebrates at a high altar in this mitre and moves up and down the stairs....
Looking a the picture again and again in my mind, reminds me of the old joke:
“Doctor! You gotta help me! I’m a teepee! I’m a wigwam!”
“Relax, you’re too tense.”
...[Think about it]
Brings me back to my days of Crayola Crayons, even has the old “flesh color” in a prominent position. And as [17] SpongJohn SquarePantheist noted - the stripes on her cape match the miter. The flesh color even aligns to create the effect of ... I think now I get [15] dwstroudmd.
All she needs now is a pair of rollerblades and she can go sailing down the streets of Manhattan. If she had to change lanes or turn at the corner she would only need to move her head left or right.
Caption: “...and not only that, but I was able to bend the curtain rod into a crozier!”
So that’s where my spare tea-cosy has gone.
Somehow, the color combination reminds me of a C. S. Lewis title—well, at least part of one. That Hideous Strength, to be precise!
Blessings and regards, Martial Artist
Everyone commenting here seems to think it is an oven mitt. The evidence, however, is quite to the contrary. There is neither thumb nor thumbhole. I should rather think it might be a tea cozy.
On a day when our sanctuaries are stripped bare, in preparation for Easter Sunday, the altars are covered and our priests dressed in black reflecting on the death of Jesus on the cross, the presiding bishop is walking around dressed like a circus clown. Where is the dignity and professionalism of that office? Yesterday it was funny, but today, the day of Christs death, it’s not only in very bad taste, it’s just plain disgusting. Making it all the more distasteful is the fact that rather than her garb reflecting this time of year, she instead chooses to continue this non-stop advertisement for the “rainbow coalition.” There are no other words to describe this other than shameful.
DJ, in fairness, this was the lady´s chosen attire for Palm Sunday. She has many faults, but I can´t hang that one on her, yet.
I would agree in that just because she has extremely poor taste in clothing does not necessarily make her a bad person.
When celebrating any sacraments, the celebrant should be humble, and not get in the way of the Lord. Our attention should be on Jesus, not the bish. On the other hand, if you don’t really believe in anything, then celebrating anything at all is entirely about celebrating the “main performer,” the celebrant, the EGO, the ME.
Do they sell that model at almy?
Is this boxing headgear??
Where is the hanging pricetag? Signed, Minnie Pearl
Robespierre I presume? http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/french/french.html Shalom, Intercessor
What is she wearing? May-be the women on the BBC America program “What not to Wear” should give her a visit and give her some good fashion sense. Oh Wait! Is she wearing a squid or is that a whale on her Alb? Sorry! I don’t have my glasses on!
