We seem at last to be nearing the end of the current pandemic, which may be as good a time as any to consider what has been its effect upon the parish churches of the good old CofE.
Epiphany
At the start of 2022 the world we live in seems a very confusing place. The effects of the pandemic have been felt right across society, from causing severe disruption to our children’s education, to the virtual collapse of the National Health Service as we have known it and to the whole pattern of employment and business maybe set to change for ever.
O SAPIENTIA
Sandwiched between the Ember Days of Advent, when we traditionally pray for the Ordained Ministry and for those who are preparing to enter it, is the day marked O Sapientia.
He Will Come Again
...and He shall come again in glory to judge both the living and the dead. Advent is with us once again and along with it, comes the tempting tendency to make it merely a time to make our preparations for Christmas, to reduce Advent to a sort of preview of the coming bigger festival.
Work and you will earn a living
We have all been suffering increasing disruption over the past couple of years as coronavirus has invaded our hospitals, schools and work places...
Kids
Much concern has been expressed lately about the serious haemorrhage of young people from the Church of England over the past decade – and rightly so ...
Lay V Clergy
A considerable controversy has arisen over a recent report presented to General Synod, which proposed that 10,000 new Anglican churches should be established in England over the next ten years, largely under the leadership of lay people....
Lift us up to the place where our Saviour Jesus Christ has gone before
The feasts of Ascension and Pentecost are not only closely connected to each other chronologically, but also theologically...
