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Golden Chalices

Blogged by James Preece on 19th July 2009

Golden boy Archbishop Vincent Nichols (who can do no wrong, so long as we don't mention Catholic Education) is quoted in the newsletter of the Parish down the road...

Archbishop Nichols wrote a postgraduate thesis on John Fisher which used the phrase: "The Church doesn't need any more golden chalices, it needs golden priests." [Reminds me of something Bishop Terry said after his visitation here!].

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What was it the Bishop said?

...a new set of chalices might be in order to enhance and add even more dignity to the liturgy.

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That's what you call selective hearing...

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Patricius said...

The thing about golden chalices isn't original. St. Ambrose said something very similar.

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Ed said...

Yes, something about the early Church having chalices of wood and priests of gold, but in later centuries the chalices and priests exchanged their material attributes.

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