Transfiguration
Aug. 9th, 2004 02:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisbeThis morning, yesterday, I mean, I got up an hour earlier than usual for a Sunday and took the 104 bus up Broadway to 120th Street. My destination was not the Teachers College complex between Broadway and Amsterdam, the site of so much useless toil, but Union Theological Seminary between Broadway and Riverside. I entered at 121st Street and walked across the pleasant quad to the little chapel where ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seraphimsigrist was serving the Liturgy of the Transfiguration for the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, some members of the Community of the Transfiguration, and some visitors from Moscow's Hosanna community. It was a lovely Liturgy, though conducted mostly in English. I thought at one point his Grace was speaking in tongues (Good Lord, not here, not now!) but recalling that he had served the Church of Japan for so long, I recognized his speech as more like Japanese than glossolalia; the bit of Sanskrit in his sermon was translated into English and, perhaps just as well, unsourced. At the coffee hour he pulled out the little digital camera which has delighted all of LJ since his trip to Iceland, remarking that I needed a new user icon, that the Greek statue I had been using was more appropriate to a mutual LJ friend than to myself. I replied that that was no Greek god but the Spirit of Electricity from atop 195 Broadway where my father worked for many years,and that I had only turned up at church to get a new user icon, though the latter was not true. In any case the razored face should appear with this entry, and the picture from which I cropped it is in +Seraphim's entry for earler today, under a cut for the sake of public decency.
seraphimsigrist was serving the Liturgy of the Transfiguration for the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, some members of the Community of the Transfiguration, and some visitors from Moscow's Hosanna community. It was a lovely Liturgy, though conducted mostly in English. I thought at one point his Grace was speaking in tongues (Good Lord, not here, not now!) but recalling that he had served the Church of Japan for so long, I recognized his speech as more like Japanese than glossolalia; the bit of Sanskrit in his sermon was translated into English and, perhaps just as well, unsourced. At the coffee hour he pulled out the little digital camera which has delighted all of LJ since his trip to Iceland, remarking that I needed a new user icon, that the Greek statue I had been using was more appropriate to a mutual LJ friend than to myself. I replied that that was no Greek god but the Spirit of Electricity from atop 195 Broadway where my father worked for many years,and that I had only turned up at church to get a new user icon, though the latter was not true. In any case the razored face should appear with this entry, and the picture from which I cropped it is in +Seraphim's entry for earler today, under a cut for the sake of public decency.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-08-09 10:39 am (UTC)Oh, ok. I think I usually think of the newcam pic, or the 7th st pic, when I think of your icon... (which says more about how weirdly my brain is wired than it says about you)
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