The Shaping of a Soul: A life taken by surprise
Richard Harries
John Hunt Publishing £18.99
(9781803411620)
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‘Its not about me’ : Reading Cottrell On Priesthood over a lockdown weekend
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I wonder what you are finding absorbs your time and attention during these strange hours and days? My table at home is gathering some small (and neat
Back to my Roots? The legacy of Brooke Foss Westcott
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I finished reading Isabel Hardman on turned to thoroughly researched life of Westcott. There were many resonances and connections. As the so
We need each other
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The truth is that we shall only understand the balance of severity and confidence, of the strenuous and the relaxed, in the context of the common li
A prayer of Lancelot Andrewes
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A prayer of Lancelot Andrewes
Guard Thou my soul,
Strengthen my body,
elevate my senses,
direct my course,
order my habits,
The Windows
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The Windows
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
He is a brittle crazie glasse:
Yet in thy temple thou dos
Easter eve
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Glorious Collect for Easter Eve
Grant, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ,
so by c
Holy Saturday
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When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy
Silence
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‘Silence’, said Seraphim, ‘is the cross on which man must crucify his ego’;
‘Silence transfigures a man into an angel; it is the spiritua
Vacation Suprises (3) Richard Herbert
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A bright day took the car South and West towards Montgomery and the glad open door of St Nicholas Parish Church built in the early 13th century.
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Vacation Surprises : (1) Craigie Aitchison in Glass
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I travelled up to London during my summer holiday to attend a wonderful celebration of marriage of Robin and Sezgi Amos at St Mary the Bolton's in
Love …………..
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in a glass darkly
Though I spake with the tongues of men and angels and yet had no love, I were even as sounding brass: or as tinkling cymbal.
A
thy fearful symmetry
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angel tiger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?
In w
English Cathedrals : Portsmouth
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The Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, commonly known as Portsmouth Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Diocese of Portsmouth, England and is
Gifts and Graces
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I have come to admire the way different individuals function in their professional roles. Yet finally I represent the role my way, in my person,
The sacred
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The sacred is the interference of the uncreated in the created, of the eternal in time, of the infinite in space, of the supraformal in forms; it i
Ministry: Seeing and Serving
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Ministry is about a way of seeing and a way of serving.
That is to say, it is a way of giving attention to God and his creation, to yoursel
What makes for Good Church?
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Perhaps 'good' Church has a few essential things in common?
1. They share a deeply incarnational view of the world, the recognitio
The Priest
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The priest picks his way
Through the parish. Eyes watch him
From windows, from the farms;
Hearts wanting him to come near.
The flesh rejects him
Surrender of Self?
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In his book The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Philip Rieff captured a major cultural theme of the last five decades of the twentieth centu