Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Thursday, 19 February 2026

Symbolism and preparation for the Westminster installation


Following on from my recent post about the inauguration Mass for Archbishop Moth’s ministry at Westminster Cathedral I have now found an online video about the preparations for the day, and in particular about many of the items used. These include more images and more information about the amethyst cope morse, the crosier and the chalice used for the celebration of the Mass, and the symbolism of the altar and the Archiepiscopal throne, the cathedra which gives the name of cathedral to every episcopal church. 

As I said in my previous post, and as this video makes much more emphatically, they all stress the inherent unity of the Catholic Church from the Apostolic Age onwards, and its inherent unity despite so much upheaval and suffering from just after the chalice was made to the calmer times of the restoration of the Hierarchy and the building of Westminster Cathedral.



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