Tag: Vicar
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Off the Hook! Celebrating St Andrew’s Day and the New Advent Journey
This Sunday, we celebrate St Andrew’s Day and Advent Sunday, marking the start of the Christmas countdown and the Liturgical New Year. With new beginnings for the Upper Culm Mission Community and personal connections, the message emphasizes Andrew’s role in inclusivity and responding to Jesus’ call, inviting us to renew our commitment.
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The Tide is High
Peter is the only one who is brave enough to speak these words of truth. Words which in previous generations had caused people to be executed, sometimes on mass. Theses are dangerous words. These are words that change lives. When we declare that Jesus is the Messiah, Jesus is God, we are called to respond…
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Preaching out
On a personal level, finishing my contract as Food Lead has given me more space and time to focus on how I live out my own priestly calling, but on a more public level, and indeed an international stage, there are questions about what a priest should or shouldn’t do.
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She’s Coming Home
I did consider, briefly, becoming a celebrant when my parochial ministry came to an end. It has often been said that I ‘do a good funeral’ (I may have that inscribed on my tombstone), but I would have had to choose between doing so and honouring my ordination in the Church of England.
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Get me to the Church on Time.
I love taking weddings and it seems that couples and guests alike love me taking them too. So why don’t I take more of them? Why don’t I use these gifts and skills to become a full time celebrant?
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Glow Up!
Moses has been in communion with God, in their favourite place, their sacred space for forty days and nights without food or drink. When Moses returns down the mountain to deliver the ten commandments to the Israelites his face is literally glowing with the after affects of time spent in God’s presence.
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Love is all you need?
This time last year I was preparing to ‘love bomb’ the villages in which I lived and served as the village vicar. I also knew that I would be leaving before the year was out.
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A Carol for the Christmas Clergy
Live-streams, and YouTube, and prayers in the post, Peace on earth and mercy mild, but negative lat-flows hoped for most.
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Advent Calendars
The same thing happened last year: on the first of December I present my husband (and the children of course) with a chocolate Advent Calendar. On the second of December I am gifted not one, but two, calendars which have miraculously arrived courtesy of next day delivery: a chocolate calendar and a tea one. As…