tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post3411064113821900017..comments2023-09-26T09:50:03.781+01:00Comments on Saintly Ramblings: An early morning postRev. Richard Thornburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348972142475605435noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-15853009828080443042008-05-19T09:14:00.000+01:002008-05-19T09:14:00.000+01:00How about just "Vic"?How about just "Vic"?Doorman-Priesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06407399232593479871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-71633764878368862922008-05-19T01:07:00.000+01:002008-05-19T01:07:00.000+01:00Be not confused, Grandmere - SR is a master editor...Be not confused, Grandmere - SR is a master editor when it comes to these columns! (And other columns, let the reader understand!)<BR/><BR/>Of course you are kind to your local clergy. As you are to distant clergy. To me and others. Patient, forbearing and forgiving <B>us.</B>!Tim Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12237353402644996286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-2608318625787766822008-05-19T00:11:00.000+01:002008-05-19T00:11:00.000+01:00Now I'm confused. When I posted my guesses on the...Now I'm confused. When I posted my guesses on the meanings of rector, etc., your definitions were not there yet, RR, or I would not have needed to guess. Yet, your comment is dated before mine. However that came about, I didn't do badly with my guesses, did I?<BR/><BR/>You will be pleased to know that I am unfailingly kind to my local clergy.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-51747077838471078062008-05-18T22:46:00.000+01:002008-05-18T22:46:00.000+01:00Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy anti-clericali...Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy anti-clericalism, Grandmere, so long as you are kind to your local clergy!<BR/><BR/>I have elsewhere confided to SR that although I am one, I would rather not be one - a rector. Vicar is my personal preference...Tim Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12237353402644996286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-67400065656654753312008-05-18T21:26:00.000+01:002008-05-18T21:26:00.000+01:00Yes, please, SR, the purple stole and a quick, "Eg...Yes, please, SR, the purple stole and a quick, "Ego te absolvo..." will do very nicely.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-2366263522686339352008-05-18T21:03:00.000+01:002008-05-18T21:03:00.000+01:00Hang on Grandmere- let me get my purple stole befo...Hang on Grandmere- let me get my purple stole before we go any further ....Rev. Richard Thornburghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01348972142475605435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-31645253495042421672008-05-18T04:38:00.000+01:002008-05-18T04:38:00.000+01:00SR, you're a good man.As for me, I like pastor bet...SR, you're a good man.<BR/><BR/>As for me, I like pastor better than rector. Rector means governor, doesn't it? I'm guessing that vicar means in place of Christ, in a sense, the same as pastor without the shepard analogy.<BR/><BR/>Have I disclosed that I'm guilty of being a tad anti-clerical? That's what comes of growing up in the RCC many years ago, when the priests were viewed as super-humanJune Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-50732816169782791602008-05-17T23:04:00.000+01:002008-05-17T23:04:00.000+01:00May I assist in steering you away from the traditi...May I assist in steering you away from the traditional and legal definitions of the terms within the CHurch of England, and head towards the etymology....<BR/><BR/><B>vicar</B> also <I>vicarious</I> <BR/>1637, from L. vicarius "substitute, deputy" (adj. and n.), from vicis "turn, change, exchange, substitution,"<BR/><BR/><B>rector</B> <BR/>1387, from L. rector "ruler, governor, guide," from rect-Tim Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12237353402644996286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-86558024262233680862008-05-17T09:05:00.000+01:002008-05-17T09:05:00.000+01:00I shall need to look up the difference ... I've ne...I shall need to look up the difference ... I've never known.Rev. Richard Thornburghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01348972142475605435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-10552065760084581792008-05-17T01:15:00.000+01:002008-05-17T01:15:00.000+01:00That is why we should all be "vicars" and not "rec...That is why we should all be "vicars" and not "rectors."Tim Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12237353402644996286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-59101270812159400042008-05-16T19:33:00.000+01:002008-05-16T19:33:00.000+01:00Nor for next week either, methinks.I'm collecting ...Nor for next week either, methinks.<BR/>I'm collecting a lad who doesn't drive back from a new job he's got in the city, who doesn't finish his shift until 11.00 p.m. which is well after the last bus has departed for the Shires. He's looking for a flat/house share in Norwich, but at present hasn't got anywhere. So the local pastor is acting as taxi.Rev. Richard Thornburghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01348972142475605435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-54400935069078696352008-05-16T17:02:00.000+01:002008-05-16T17:02:00.000+01:00Not the best of carbon footprints this week, then?...Not the best of carbon footprints this week, then? Ah well, you are back in the cure of souls safely!Tim Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12237353402644996286noreply@blogger.com