• Sermon preached for Lent 1, 2013

  18/02/2013

  Here’s the video.
  
  
  And here is the text:

  One of my favourite stories about St Mary’s is one that I’ve heard several versions of. It concerns one of my predecessors as Provost here.

  He had been here for a couple of months and thought that things were going OK. And then suddenly a letter appeared from a member of the congregation. (It may be that person is still here and just about to write to me in similar terms, so I’m taking a risk in telling this story).

  The gist of the letter was that its author listed the many ways in which the worship of the congregation had changed in those three months.

  See here, the letter writer wrote – see all the changes that you’ve made.

  And in the letter there was a list. In the version of the story I like the best there were 90 points listed but I don’t know whether we should allow a little bit of exaggeration in the telling.

  And the Provost in question had to confess (more…)

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