Corpus Christi

Lo! upon the altar lies,
hidden deep from human eyes,
Bread of angels from the skies,
made the food of mortal man.

The Feast of Corpus Christi was one of those rare, perfect days of Spring. I took the day off and spent most of it at church, setting up for Solemn Mass with Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction and also making a visit up to the roof to see the progress of the flashing work being done by AWR. The skylight over the tower apartment was being removed and a new base built as I climbed up. The work looks excellent thus far, so now we just have to persuade the terrace residents next door not to throw towels and cigarette butts into the gutters and we may be making progress.

The service was rather dismally attended this year and there was no reception afterward. The rector was in Columbus as alternate delegate to the Convention so Fr. Chris Pyles, our erstwhile seminarian and now a curate in Valley Forge, celebrated and preached. Deacon Kate Malin, our Norris fellow last year and soon to be curate of Christ Church Bronxville, was deacon. I was MC as I have been for the past several years.

Somehow we had never taken pictures of a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament so I asked Alison if she would take pictures from the rector's office, without a flash. She took quite a few shots so I hope they turn out well. We may not put them on the website, however, if Fr. Pyles has anything to say about it. Apparently he had quite a few comments about his first Mass at St. Ignatius last September, which Alison photographed beautifully and put on the website. That jackass Young Fogey posted a link to it on his boring blog and the resulting comments from his band of jackals mortified poor Chris and got him in bad with his St. Clement's buddies. He doesn't want to be seen with a lady deacon and MC, it could just ruin his career you know. He said he did not want any pictures of him celebrating Corpus Christi at St. Ignatius on the worldwide web. As if it's all about him.