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DAZZLING DARKNESS
ANDREW SHANKS writes of Rachel Mann, in his Foreword to her Dazzling Darkness, that she represents “a whole other species of religious faith … something like an option for all-transformative ultimate...
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UNFINISHED
click image to go to YouTube trailer UNFINISHED AND UNPOLISHED thoughts hereunder about an unfinished and as yet unpolished work – having seen Steven Spielberg’s huge LINCOLN this evening. And huge is...
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KIDS AGAIN
Liverpool slideshow here GREAT DAY. Caught the train to Liverpool with my sister Sarah and brother Nick. We can’t remember ever having had a day out, just the three of us, in our adult lives. Isn’t...
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STRENGTHEN DROOPING HANDS
Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15 and Mark 6:1-6 Audio – Homily and Commissioning here JILL FAIRHURST (2nd from left) – who was commissioned as Leader of Cheadle Deanery Mothers’ Union this morning by Rural Dean...
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POETIC TRANSFIGURATION
POETIC TRANSFIGURATION – “I wonder what sort of a world we’d live in if people more readily stayed with poetry? …” (see Greek ‘poetes’ here)- Audio mp4 here Exodus 34.29-end and Luke 9.28-36
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ASHEN FACED
ASHEN FACED to the wilderness then, Abba – woodwork lessons, family tantrums, and the doctors of the law all behind me. Who’d ever have thought life both joy and trauma? How shall I bear it, without...
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LET’S SURF BABY!
THIS WORLD is full of joyful, playful things! The sun streamed through the lantern tower windows at Bramhall Parish Church today and on return home I found a note about David Kanigan‘s having posted...
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TANTUR SUNRISE
IT’S ALWAYS a joy when scanning one’s bookshelves to happen unintentionally upon an old favourite. The late Donald Nicholl was Rector of Tantur, the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies...
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CONNECTING
WARM SUNSHINE, not a cloud in sight, this lounge as quiet as a church mouse, coffee to hand, the perfect environment for reading, dozing and daydreaming. It’s wonderful to have opportunity simply to...
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CONNECTING
WARM SUNSHINE, blue sky, this lounge as quiet as a church mouse, coffee to hand, the perfect environment for reading, dozing and daydreaming. It’s wonderful to have opportunity simply to allow heart...
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SOON ENOUGH
Stay awhile. Let it be. Breathe with the oak tree. See the changing Season come and Go with the flow and You shall know the Reason soon enough. 28 February 2013
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PAPA
Eighty-five years and resigned to Breathe my last in harness For six centuries there’s Never been another way to Launch a Conclave - Papa’s last breath Silver hammer to Seal and Ring a Funeral rite to...
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FROM GOD-NESS
photo/howardgerrard For Bramhall, March 2013 A HANDWRITTEN CARD found amongst the papers of the late poet Sally Purcell bears the following anonymous and unsourced quotation: Y sobre todo tendras /...
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EVERY KIND OF LOVE
GOD OF LOVE, inventor of every kind of love and magnetism, we give thanks for miracles – William Cleary
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FROM A SPARK TO A FLAME
please click image for audio file HOMILY AND PRAYER for Thanksgiving Sunday 2013 - brokenness … compassion … the dispossessed … faith … forgiveness … fruits … hope … love … shared soil … suffering …...
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STARTING HERE
please click image for audio file STARTING HERE, what do you want to remember? Homily for Wednesday. Simon Marsh has been keenly ecumenically minded from the age of 8. The preamble to this weekday...
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MOTHERS IN CONCLAVE
please click image for audio file – photo/felici/infophoto EARLY HOMILY FOR MOTHERING SUNDAY – “Mothers in Conclave”, 8am “Curse not the darkness. The darkness has given you many things” - C Joy Bell C
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