The repository finished, Paul Goings and I went to the Cathedral for the Bishop's Mass. It was a fairly standard middle-of-the-road Eucharist with the bishop washing the feet of the clergy, though this year we were deprived of seeing Canon Reid, our rector, in the Jedi cape that members of the Chapter wear at Cathedral liturgies. I figure there were 80-90 present, about two-thirds of them priests. This year there were stations for communion so there was no need to whisper in the bishop's ear as he came around the circle that we weren't receiving because we'd receive that night at S. Clement's.

While S. Clement's is a very different sort of place than the Cathedral, the Dean cares deeply about the Church's liturgical and prayer life. I never saw the old Church of the Saviour before it was remodeled, but the remodeled space is quite pleasing-the addition of a baldacchino and a side altar would fix things right up.

Now for a little rest--It will be a long night with tenebrae at 7:00 tomorrow morning.

The Altar of Repose.

The Philadelphia Cathedral.