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A question of gender
It seems to me that one rarely sees a priest who happens to be a woman happen to wear a maniple. Actually, one doesn’t see many people wear the maniple these days, for reasons that I’ve never quite understood. Why, when one does see such a thing, does it seem invariably to be sported on…
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Society Against Sundays in the Month
Why is there no church society for those of us who believe that Sundays-in-the-Month are one of the works of darkness that beset the church and tempt it into doom and decline? You know the kind of thing I mean – Matins on the first Sunday in the month and Eucharist on the rest. Or…
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Ordinary Sunday in Eastertide
We’ve a rare ordinary Sunday tomorrow – looking at the diary for the next few weeks it is one high festival after another. Next Sunday 19 May is Pentecost. The invitation is to everyone to wear national dress if they have it and on that day we all say the Lord’s Prayer in our language.…
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Sticking with being a welcoming church
There’s been a post on another blog that has been doing the rounds over the last week or so which really made me think. Indeed, I lost count of the number of times I saw people refer to it on Facebook and every time, it made me think some more. It was entitled: “We will…
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Pilgrimage
Here’s a video featuring Bishop Kevin and a fine hat.
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Sign seen
I’m currently on holiday and so spending quite a lot of time going in and out of churches. (What else do you think I would do on holiday?) In one of the many churches I’ve visited, I caught sight of this. Thoughts?
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Sunday’s Sermon on Vocations
Here’s what I said on Sunday about vocations [Sorry about the poor audio. We’ve some major problems with the sound system that are going to take some weeks to sort out – however, the Vestry are well aware that Something Needs to be Done]. The Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church have asked the whole…
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Inspection of TISEC
TISEC – the Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church has had the inspectors in (from the Ministry Division of the Church of England, since you ask) and they’ve just released their final report. There is not much for anyone’s comfort in the report as the inspectors indicated that they had no confidence in the…
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Under attack
Some people will have noticed that some of the websites that I look after have been under attack this week. Naughty people are trying to gain control of a load of web servers and mine has been one of the many targeted. What has been happening is that someone has had the great idea of…
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Something Joyful
Watch this video if you’ve not seen it already to see the power of song. Actually, if you’ve watched it already, watch it again. A big joyful shout out to New Zealand and all the New Zealanders that I know. Rejoice. New life comes. And it comes singing. As I listen to this, and I’ve…