Someone promise me that the sun will come back.

Habemus Papam. Reverendissimum Patrem David Chillingworth, Sanctae Catholicae Ecclesiae Presbyterem

On the website of St Salvador's Church, Dundee, I noticed this entry:      Wed 8 Conception of Mary 10.00 am My question is, how can they be so precise? It takes a true Anglo-Catholic to know the exact time.

Prepare an Advent sermon to explain the phrase, “we who bear your threefold likeness look for the City of Peace” [Hint – consider how you would explain this phrase to the young church group]

“Prayer is a cyberspace.” Discuss. [Hint – reflections on pastoral placements will be particularly helpful in answering this question].

Prepare a theological reflection on the natural affinity of the dog collar with the fruit bowl in the average clergy household. [Hint – Consider using poetry, collage, mime or song in your response to this question].

Following significant growth in the choir at St Saviour’s over the last year, we find ourselves short of choir copies of our normal hymn book – Hymns Ancient and Modern: New Standard Edition. It may be that we have to buy more copies (at ?30 a go), though I would prefer not to have to…

Reforming the Episcopate – well, why not? The idea of a geographic diocese is under particular threat. It is as much under threat from the internet as it is from the anti-women, anti-gay groups. I don’t think that territorial organisation is proving very effective in church life. Remember the parish system? So, what comes next?…