I'm thinking of the carved stone seats and the expression that springs to mind is more "back pain" than "tranquility" ...
I didn't sit for long, but they seemed quite comfortable. Possibly not for an hour long church service, but for a ten minute gaze around, they were fine.
We have pulpit falls in the liturgical colours. I suspect someone wanted to gift something to the church and came up with that. They are rather lovely and I'm sure the majority of people in the church don't have a clue why the pulpit falls vary.
We have pulpit falls in the liturgical colours. I suspect someone wanted to gift something to the church and came up with that. They are rather lovely and I'm sure the majority of people in the church don't have a clue why the pulpit falls vary.
Paraments, stoles and the like in liturgical colors have been very much the norm in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) since the mid-20th C. I was just by our place yesterday to change the paraments (in our case, pulpit, lectern and table) to red for an ordination we’re hosting on Saturday. After that service, there’ll be a change back to green for Sunday.
Since posting the above, at 10am, I have discovered why we have the pulpit falls!
Apparently there was a fundraiser to provide the church with a pulpit fall, and everyone was surprised when it exceeded the target fourfold.
Raising money for Purpose A, then spending it on anything other than Purpose A is problematic.
Someone suggested that commissioning four falls in liturgical colours was the solution to the problem of "too much money." And thus it came to pass that we have liturgically coloured pulpit falls.
Sometimes it feels that the church today has many problems, but "too much money" is a problem we have left in the past.
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I didn't sit for long, but they seemed quite comfortable. Possibly not for an hour long church service, but for a ten minute gaze around, they were fine.
Presumably, John Knox, Francis Makemie and John Witherspoon have all given up spinning in their graves over us by now.
Oddly ours has carpet in a rather rich red, not Presbyterian Blue.
The Book of Common Order does have liturgical colours listed, whatever Knox might think.
Apparently there was a fundraiser to provide the church with a pulpit fall, and everyone was surprised when it exceeded the target fourfold.
Raising money for Purpose A, then spending it on anything other than Purpose A is problematic.
Someone suggested that commissioning four falls in liturgical colours was the solution to the problem of "too much money." And thus it came to pass that we have liturgically coloured pulpit falls.
Sometimes it feels that the church today has many problems, but "too much money" is a problem we have left in the past.