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I nominate these guys

25/08/2014

Can you change the world by pouring water over someone?

Well, we had a go yesterday in St Mary’s with two lovely baptisms in a great service yesterday morning.

In the course of the service, we were reminded of Moses being scooped from the water of the River Nile and going on to set a whole people free from slavery. Then we heard a bit of St Paul which reminded us that transformation of the heart was connected with accepting that we all have gifts that differ. (What a fabulous reading for a baptism). Then we had a reading from the gospels which told us that in trying to work out who Jesus was, Peter the apostle actually found himself named and commissioned for service.

What will these children do in their lives?

There is so much trouble in the world at the moment that it is important to be reminded of the hope and the joy that isn’t just part of what happens when new life comes into a family with the birth of a child but also the new life and hope which is intrinsic to our faith.

Yesterday morning was a little Easter for us at St Mary’s. And a packed church was buzzing with the ideas that new life, hope and love are real and for sharing.

I don’t know who is going to sort the world out and allow the kingdom of love to be seen for real. But I nominate these guys, freshly baptized, and all like them who are entering the world anew. May they be a generation that brings faith, hope and love to bear on a world that needs to be baptised with every drop of goodness it can get.

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7 responses to “Ten Key Skills for Priestly Ministry”

Stephan Clark

01/12/2016

I think this is a great post
I struggle with Vector Images
But as I anticipate the birth of my second granddaughter…I am mindful that we will baptise probably in the holy season of Easter. Hopefully on Easter day (tears to my eyes at the thought)
Her sister was Chrismated by parents, God parents, grandparents, great grandparents, Baptists and Anglicans. In English, Magyar (Hungarian) and of course Latin.
May it be so ….Baptism is a great opportunity and gift for us all

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Paul Hutchinson

01/12/2016

Thanks for 1, 4, 5 & 7 especially. Do us a favour and retweet in 3 months, please…

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Jonathan Tallon

01/12/2016

My thesis was printed in Gentium – lovely font. But I now use the even newer, shinier Gentium Plus (it’s a lot like Gentium, but even better for Greek and some obscure other bits). Both completely free.

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Mary H

04/12/2016

No 10. Warm water helps a lot, I find, as well as asking mum or dad to hold a fractious child for the actual baptism.
Thanks for several of your suggestions!

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Pam

07/12/2016

Recently, I was browsing at a vintage market held in a church hall when I came across a Fisher-Price School Days Desk, at least 30 years old (or more). I was reminded of Christmases past. It’s in excellent condition and only needs some chalk, which I will supply. My two year old grandson will be the recipient and I’m hoping he enjoys his present. Or he can play with the carefully selected wrapping paper. Win-win.

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1. Stephan Clark
  
  08/12/2016
  
  Wrapping paper is good…always think that my eldest daughter enjoyed her wrapping paper better than the present for the first 2 years of her life. Now (she is 34) I am little bit more careful
  
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David A. Alvarez

17/02/2017

I learned that people will not remember you by what you said but by how you treated them.

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