Have a go at our next caption competition, which shows the choir of Exeter College, Oxford, on top of the tower on Ascension Day, having sung choral matins. Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 1 June.

We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a credit and confirm that those pictured are happy for the photo to be used.

Here is the winning entry for the previous competition: 

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The Archbishop occasionally doubted whether she should have agreed to be patron of the Bat Appreciation Society (Martin Kettle)

A SELECTION of this week’s entries:

“After two hours of looking, the crow that stole the Vicar’s cross was finally spotted in the rafters” (Philip Lickley); “Right! Who’s volunteered to paint the ceiling, then?” (Jennifer Starnes); “This must be at least the 51st church we have been to in Rome” (Richard Hough); “We won the no-bell prize when we removed the bells from up there” (Helga Brandt); “That’s where it’s been leaking” (David Marsden); “‘Just a few weeks in — how are things going, Your Grace?’ ‘They’re looking up’” (John Saxbee).

“High mass” (Mairead O’Sullivan); “Dame Sarah and cohort, why do you stand looking up towards heaven for the ascended Christ? Or are you intrigued at St Augustine transforming darkness into light with the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons?” (Dev Nallathamby); “I regard it as central to my mission to eliminate unsightly cobwebs, while also allowing space for spiders to flourish” (Simon Perry); “That’s where Ralph Fiennes rested during the filming of Conclave” (Brian Stevenson).

“Up there is a cobweb we have spent five years trying to remove” (Bill de Quick); “Don’t stand there looking up to heaven!” (David Porter); “The Lord is watching over us always! I will show you. How many fingers am I holding up, dear Father?” (Sophie Boatman); “It’s a bird. . . It’s a plane. . . It’s Superman!” (Rob Stoltz); “And up there, just above your throne, is the hole that lets the pigeons in. You need to be careful when sitting there” (Robin Almond); “With Ascension Day approaching, clerics gather to practise a relevant degree of astonishment” (Denis Metrustery); “Owing to bad weather, the Ascension took place indoors” (Mary Hawkins); “I could have sworn that Ascension was next week” (Tim Abraham); “ . . . and that’s where we’ve stored all the Living in Love and Faith files” (Michael Black); “How to get the Dean down from an Ascension Day stunt that had gone badly wrong?” (Don Manley).

“After witnessing a bird entering the cathedral, it was agreed that this was indeed a true bird of prey” (Caroline Doyle); “They hoped that their re-enactment of the Ascension wasn’t going to be followed by a re-enactment of the destruction of the Temple” (Michael Foster); “Look! A UFO — Unidentified Flying Ordinand!” (Jo Mash); “Ah, yes . . . there’s the leak the Lord’s been testing us with” (Chaz Griffiths); “And it’s a lot warmer in here since we had the rose window double-glazed” (Valerie Ganne); “And we had the ceiling redesigned by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen” (Rob Falconer); “And this is where the roof used to be before the lead was pinched” (Paul Fitzpatrick); “Look, there goes the last Labour voter!” (Nigel Greaves); “Can it be true? Lo, he comes with crowds descending!” (Barbara Huntley); “Awaiting the first Amazon drone delivery — God help us” (Sue Cobley); “Vicar, do we need a faculty for our new colony of bats in the belfry?” (Robin Morgan).

As ever, the winner receives a prize of Fairtrade chocolate, courtesy of Divine Chocolate.

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