Stories from Lockdown 6 - Refer to instructions...
Published on: 26th February 2021Our continuing series of stories from lockdown
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Our continuing series of stories from lockdown
Our continuing series of stories from lockdown
I'm writing this reflection having just finished a Zoom meeting hosted by Bishop Richard on the theme of making generosity and giving part of our culture in our Diocese. Twenty two clergy and accredited ministers shared their experiences, joys and difficulties in relation to generosity and giving in their own parishes.
How often have you been invited to "take a pew" as a way of sitting down? At one church in Abbeydore Deanery, you can now do just that in a space which was once full of pews.
A priest from Herefordshire has become one of the first Anglican chaplains to serve the Diocese in Europe?s Camino Chaplaincy, in Santiago de Compostela, the destination of the pilgrimage route that was recently highlighted in the BBC TV programme, Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago.
Plenty of us have prayed for one another, our local area and leaders as part of intercessions on a Sunday but how many of us pray for our neighbours at any other time of the week? In Ledbury people from all of the Christian churches are getting together once a week to pray for one another and their wider community.
"They thought it was really nice and it suited both of my girls as it didn't feel as formal as having it in a church service on a Sunday as ours was so relaxed."
In December last year 18-year-old Lydia Cole died unexpectedly. At her funeral the newly in post Christine Cattanach heard two of her friends discussing how the church felt like theirs because they have all of their family weddings and funerals there but they didn't come at any other time...