• Our newest priest

    Great to be with Kate Reynolds as she was priested today in Old St Paul’s.

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    Congratulations to her and to the congregation.

One response to “Sermon for St Francis 4 October 2009”

  1. Tim Avatar

    I like the idea of getting on and building not pining (bad pun) for a past (rose-tinted) state.

    You’ve also called to mind something my school chaplain once said – one might be called to be a fool for Christ – but never an idiot.

    And I wonder if Francis might have been more memorable if he took a sponge with him?

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