Poem Written to Mark the Installation of Reverend Dom Ind

Posted Monday 24 May 2010

Alastair Williamson has written this piece to celebrate the Installation of Reverend Dominic Ind as Canon on Sunday 16th May at St Ninian’s Cathedral in Perth by Most Reverend David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

 

 

 

The suns streams through lofty windows deep-stained with every hue,
Catching a dust mote and a prayer as they drift from silent suppliants.
Tapered columns clasp the vaulting high-timbered roof in worship too,
Whilst triumphant chords swell the space from serried choir and organ.

The cathedral waits in mighty awe as Spirit encircles stone and altar;
Filling the hearts of those open gazing, fearfully watching, with calmness.
The solemn group wends across the floor, golden in the light from far,
Bishop, dean, priest and acolytes in splendid albs and scarves process.

Outside the daytime buzz can fade, o’ershadowed by a calming presence
That stills the nodding cherry blossom by the doors
And holds a swift frozen aloft like a bee in amber, as He goes by
Without a fire, with no rockfall, no hidden eye, just a still small voice.

Inside the cathedral beneath that great triumphal sky,
The song has ended and another small voice speaks out;
Standing before the people there, the bishop smiles a blessing.
The prayers are said and hymns are sung, then one priest kneels before him
To receive episcopal endorsement of his title and his benediction;
He rises from his knees and stands ambassador of his faith and now a canon.