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Father Jason Jones, Rector of the National Shrine of Wales, Our Lady of the Taper, celebrated a Missa Cantata on the Feast of the Most Precious Blood in the Priory Chapel within the Monastery on Caldey Island off the coast of Wales.
Swallows swooped over Fr Jones’s head, diving through the clouds of incense – a wonderful occasion.
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This reminds me of the time I pent in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Mass at the Cathedral was always associated with a flock of birds that flew down the nave making a turn at the transept, a 180 deg turn back towards and down over the altar, another 180, a second pass over the altar before turning back up the nave for another pass.
This went on contiuously during the masses I attended.
The first time I saw a spectacle like this was in Monterrey, Mexico at another cathedral. White doves!
I always wondered why the priest covered the chalice… now I know.
Was Mozart’s Spatenmesse sung? It would be fitting!
Oops i meant \”Spatzenmesse.\” It would be the Spade Mass otherwise. I feel like ICEL today!
Swallows make me nervous… I’ve had them nesting on my porch on a couple of occasions and they were always flying in my face. Apparently, it is illegal to disturb their nests or nest-building, but I always do. I have to. I feel about swallows the way Father Z feels about squirrels.
Even the sparrows find a home under the eaves of the Temple….
One is confident that Fr Jones used a Pall and so the Sacred Species were not liable to attack from the swallows.
EXACTLY, Tom. I realized the functional aspect of the pall once I was at Mass in the parish church in Santo Domingo de Silos with pigeons fluttering overhead.
I’m curious now: which methods would be acceptable (and practical) to get rid of bird infestations in a church? Cause let’s be honest: while it sometimes may make for a nice picture, those birds do leave things behind. The Sacred Speices may be protected, the priest and parishioners are not.
Yet one cannot really start shooting them inside the church – if only due to the collateral damage. So how to get rid of them?
Sparrowhawks
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Bait and nets? (The snare of the fowler….) :)