Were You There When They Accessorized My Lord?
By Diogenes (articles ) | March 29, 2005 1:33 AM
No reason why clerics' personalities should not be reflected in their robes.
A priest in Wiltshire has used her experience in the fashion industry to brighten up her robes. The priest, the Revd Veronica James, a design graduate and former buyer for a fashion chain, has designed all her own vestments, including four special stoles.
Mrs James, NS Assistant Curate of Ashton Keynes, Leigh and Minety, in the diocese of Bristol, said this week that there was no reason why clerics' personalities should not be reflected in their robes. For Lent, Mrs James has been wearing a purple stole sewn with 30 silver sequins, to represent Judas's pieces of silver.
The Rev. James's plum-tone mascara coordinates well with violet chasubles of Quadragesima. (Isn't that how Alphonsus Liguori got started?)
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Posted by: Gil125 -
Mar. 30, 2005 6:40 PM ET USA
Fr. Phillips, I don't know where you are but do you suppose you could get reincardinated to the Archdiocese of San Francisco?
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Posted by: FrPhillips -
Mar. 29, 2005 11:03 PM ET USA
I was not so much throwing stones as I was shaking the dust from my sandals. I was an Anglican cleric from the Diocese of Bristol, before entering the Catholic Church and being ordained to the sacred Priesthood.
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Posted by: Gil125 -
Mar. 29, 2005 6:26 PM ET USA
Once again, I don't think we as Roman Catholics can throw stones at the glass house of our Anglican brethren (and, in this case, cistern) because of the stylishness of their priestesses. I can direct you to parishes immediately adacent to mine where R. C. priests wear vestments of their own choosing. Including, in one case, all the colors of the...rainbow.
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Posted by: FrPhillips -
Mar. 29, 2005 4:06 PM ET USA
This is the same Anglican diocese in which the Rev. Peter Stone has now turned into the Rev. Carol Stone. (see the story: http://www.pfc.org.uk/news/2000/ston-sw3.htm ) Perhaps Mrs. James could help Mr./Ms. Stone with his/her accessorizing!
