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I was singing in a choir at the weekend, and again witnessed the celebrant offer a warm welcome and invite everyone to come forward for at least a blessing. The congregation was a usual mix of the churched and the non-churched and as usual, the same as happens at my church, virtually no-one from the…
It was a good night – 17 young people came together to watch movies, eat massive amounts of food, play on the big screen Wii and share a good time. Most couldn’t last the whole night, although some managed. Thanks to the support of Steven and Chris, Emma and Lou we watched 5 films in…
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I know that “we welcome it. bring it on” might send shivers down the spine of the more liturgically precious, but the context of this blessing is at the end of tomorrow night’s all-night youth event. It needs to speak in the language of them not of the church. If we are sending these young…
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Numbers are starting to pick up. Naturally the need to obtain parental consent has been a bit of a barrier, but you can’t undertake this kind of work without it. Need to keep praying for it. This isn’t for Churched young people at all, although organised by my older youth group all of whom have…
MP for Gosport: Peter Viggers A series of videos have appeared on the web this week taking the mickey out of the ridiculous claims some British Members of Parliament have made on their expense accounts, after Boing Boing and others campaigned to have details of MPs expenses released back in January. If you’re not from…
with grateful thanks to Luke Coppen for pulling most of the information together Firstly, the news itself, the quotes and the reactions: This morning the Vatican has unveiled the mechanism by which traditionalist Anglicans can be received as a group into the Catholic Church. The provision is much more far-reaching than previously expected. Rather than…
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Text: Mark 10:35-45 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen “God did not call you to be served, but to be servants.” Today’s gospel reading provides a remarkable contrast between being served and being a servant. In this reading we hear the story of two of…
There are a small number of litmus tests regarding a parish which is making a journey into the sacramental life (which is a better way of saying ‘going up the candle’). Some of these are profound, some are entirely trivial. I will leave it up to you to decide which is which. Especially to annoy…
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HT to Deborah for this one! Combining my devotion to the Saints and my love of Tom Lehrer (oh, and an increasing awareness of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan as well!)
As you might be aware, I am an extensive Mastodon user: sending out daily meditations and prayers from the BlessedAltW acoount (search that out and follow it) and microblogging through the day as myself: frsimon As a programmer however, I am keen to be able to access the Mastodon API and code something useful with…
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