I’m aware that this cartoon was drawn for another situation. However, this is kind of how it feels to be gay in the Scottish Episcopal Church at the moment. My guess is that other people feel it too.
We need to pray for a different style of leadership.
Urgently.
My thanks to Dave Walker for making this and other great cartoons available to post occasionally on blogs and to Andrew Swift who drew my attention to it.
Fr Kelvin, is there a link to a pdf of the order of service so we can all see it?
I’ll try to post a pdf later today. I need to pick it up from the office and then bring it home to change it to pdf format. I also need to correct a couple of mistakes before I forget what they were.
I can’t post everything that was in the people’s hands for copyright reasons, but I’ll see what I can include.
It was something like this, Robert.
And the Choir looked like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonrasmith/sets/72157611524510670/
In the service sheet, verse 3 of In the Bleak Midwinter has the wrong words.
The words as used by Harold Darke, and as sung as a tenor solo last night, from memory are:
Enough for Him whom Cherubim worship night and day,
A breast full of milk, and a manger full of hay,
Enough for Him, whom angels fall down before,
the ox and ass and camel which adore
OK, I shall remove my anorak now!
More pictures from the Carol service at:
http://bonnyton.fotopic.net/c1627814.html
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pencefn/sets/72157611423694339/
Announce that they will produce a new Eucharistic rite and will consult about it throughout Scotland
Material is proposed which would allow discussion about subdivision, union of dioceses when there are less than 7 bishops in post. +Bob speaks against it. +Mark speaks next as he has a lot to do with Argyll and The Isles. He has told A and T I that they cannot be divided when a Canon…
Puts forward a canonical change putting NSM office holders in same place as Stipendiary office holders regarding retiral at 70. This will not affect nsms who are not office holders – ie associate clergy or assistant clery
+Brian introduces work of the board. Speaks about SEC joining tripartite talks with C of England and C of Scotland. First meets in November this year. Presents Doctrine Committee report . draws attention to Grosvenor Essay being worked on regarding the Incarnation. Also notes work done on end of life issues. (Why was this not…
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