Book Meme

Okay, I've been "tagged" with "book meme" by Todd Stepp @ wesleyananglican.blogspot.com . - According to what his blog says, this is the way the game works:

I am supposed to:
1.) Pick up the nearest book. - That happens to be The Westminster Dictionary of Worship

2.) Turn to page 123

3.) Find the fifth sentence, and

4.) Post the three sentences afterward.

Here we go... from the entry "Cathedra"

"This is undoubtedly the oldest insignia of a bishop's authority, and many centuries before bishops assumed the wearing of mitres, rings or even the carrying of pastoral staves and croziers, they were enseated in their throne or cathedra on the day of their consecration to the episcopate as the sing that they were invested with the authority to preside over the church in their diocese. Thus the writer of the fourth-century Apostolic Constitutions says: "And early in the morning let him be placed in this throne in a place set apart for him among the bishops, they all giving him the kiss in the Lord." In the earlier centruies the bishop's throne was normally placed in the centre of the apse behind the altar; on either side there were lesser seats for his presbyters."


Now I must tag 5 more people, so I am tagging: Evan/Julia, Kevin P, Adam F, and Amy Williams (Yes, I know that's only 4, but its all I have that haven't already been tagged).