A number of people ask about our vestments and the colours of them, so here are a few thoughts. However I preface them with two cautions: It doesn’t really matter that much, but if you’re going to do it, you may as well do it consistently and correctly. Whole libraries have been written about this, and it’s only a short Facebook post, so it doesn’t contain all the world of scholarship. Initially, try and think of a liveried servant in a country house in the old days, or an ar

For the first ‘why do you do that’ post, I thought I’d pick the thing we are asked the most, and as it’s about the altar, it’s also at the heart of all that we do. ‘Why do your altars face the wrong way?’ The short answer is ‘they don’t, most other peoples do’. That might sound a little arrogant, but let me explain. A church is a building in which the people of God can gather to offer worship together, as we are commanded to. Our worship is based on the mass, as we are also c