Here’s one of those nativity sets that I was talking about in my Midnight Mass sermon the other night.
3 responses to “Our own little Anglican Communion”
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Not to mention Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
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When I went to seminary in Seattle, WA, USA in the mid 1980s I took a summer term class at Vancouver School of Theology in the Diocese of New Westminster, Canada. While there I met Dean Peter’s current bishop, +Michael, who was himself dean of Christ Church Cathedral at that time. I still have his small book that he gave me, Rites For A New Age: Understanding the Book of Alternative Services. Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
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That +Michael would be the Mike Ingham with whom I was at theological college in Edinburgh 40 years ago, then. A breath of fresh air in the place back then, if memory serves.
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O Adonai
O Lord and Ruler of the House of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and gave him the law on Sinai: come, and redeem us with outstretched arms. Amen.The same one who is known as Lord, flickers in an unsteady fire – a fire extinguished neither by our own…
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Advent
I am indebted to Maggi Dawn for reminding me of this poem which makes me quiver. It will be one of the readings at the Carol Service on Sunday evening at St Saviour's. The Scottish Vienna Horns will be playing, the choir have prepared carols, the church will be decorated and I will be singing…
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O Sapienta
O Wisdom, who came from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from end to end and ordering all things mightily and sweetly: come, and teach us the way of prudence. I intended at one point to put some kind of Advent calendar on my blog, or on the church website, but somehow that did…
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Music – what's playing on planet Holdsworth
Dusty Springfield: Son of a Preacher Man [Sing it sister!]Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass in B Flat and Mass in D [Easter next year?]Jim Moray: Sweet England [Though I don't like Jamie Calum]The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Urban Spaceman [Produced by Paul McCartney – did you know?]Supertramp: Breakfast in America [No I don't know why either]Beatles: Here…
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