[Magdalen] 234th Diocesan Convention

[ME Michaud]

They're seen here at Our Lady of Perpetual Help
(where Senator Kennedy's funeral was held),
presumably because it's a Basilica.

The SSJE chapel in Cambridge has a baldachine,
a sort of permanent one.
-M


>Our convention was this weekend 143rd of Western Michigan.  At our liturgy
> >(indoors) we had umbrellas over the gospeller and the bishop in procession
> >in and out and for the Gospel procession.  We never did it that way
> >before!  It was said that this is from an Ethiopian tradition.
>