The sermon this week seemed to interest people quite a lot – more so than anything I’ve preached in months, I think.
Here’s what I said:
Quite a number of years ago, I went to visit priest who had just begun working in one of our congregations – it was someone whom I had enjoyed having on placement with me during her training and together we were looking around her new charge.
As I looked around, I noticed that the church had an unusual set of Stations of the Cross. They had obviously been done around about the 1920s and were rather stylish images. There was a touch of the art deco about them and I said to the new priest, “Ooh, look at those, you could make quite a feature of them, they need lighting better – you should be showing them off and making much of themâ€.
“Hmm,†she said. “Look at little closerâ€.
And as I looked, I saw what she was trying to draw my attention to. (more…)
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