back to work

I am actually beginning my phased return in January but I will conduct a small informal service later this week  as a trial run. In this I hope to express my most heartfelt dreams for my renewed ministry.

These have prayer and particularly Eucharistic prayer at the very centre.

In trying to decide what I will say  after more than a year of enforced silence I have been beset by the preacher’s abiding temptation to try to say EVERYTHING. This has only got worse as I have reflected on  my chosen text, the first ten verses of Mark.

Anyway here are my main thoughts

• I am personally very grateful to God and to other people, I do not think it matters if  a person who has my gratitude has no feeling of God’s presence
• Christians shouldn’t act as though we have better access to virtue than others
• what the Church does is Really Important
• this Importance doesn’t depend on impact
• traditions matter
• traditions don’t help us
• we are called to be like Christ

There will be more but Nick got too

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