Sunday, May 19, 2024

Medieval Mason

I took a Sunday Communion service in a little country church at Pendomer today. As I prepared the bread and wine for the service, during the offertory hymn, I happened to glance up. My eye caught the grinning skull on the stonework just above my head. The stonemason a long while before had done just what he intended - he'd given me a reminder of my mortality.  Just in case I got a bit above myself. 



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