Visiting priest: “What’s the ablative of your bishop?”

That’s a close-up of what I put up in the “sacristy” of Prince of Peace in Robbinsville:

And here’s a shot in situ in the “sacristy” of Holy Redeemer in Andrews:

If you’re wondering, the ablative case is used for the names of whatever pope and local bishop in the Latin Roman Canon of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It ain’t always the same. Compare the three variant ablatives for the three names of the bishop: MichaelE ThomA MartinO.

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