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ROUND TABLE
please click once to enlarge Round Table photos: twice to enlarge further MANY OF US speak of “round table conversations” easily and routinely. With great delight we’ve received the “hardware” to...
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I THINK
FOR YOU TWO - in the midst of all your busy preparing and continuing to light up the world, yours, and the little fellow’s, and ours – this was the one: with love and prayers assured … I think...
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FREEDOM
Originally posted on Simon Marsh: Pipe Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ARCHBISHOP STUART BLANCH, late of York, wrote The Devil was once asked what he missed most after he was cast out of...
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THANKSGIVING UNITES
I OWN A LUMP IN MY THROAT during the course of our eucharistic celebrations for “Thanksgiving Sunday” today. There’s something deeply touching in the sight and quiet sound of a couple of hundred...
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SILENT MUSIC
IS IT POSSIBLE to encounter “the silent music of God’s praise” in company, and / or on a regular basis? Well, the evidence seems to be that an ever increasing number of people in Bramhall are finding...
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BLOSSOMING
BLESSED BE GOD for the gift of another blue-skied blossoming day – in flowers, in trees; in people young and beautiful and reaching; in wide-open-minded educators, giving, learning, receptive and...
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FRANCIS
PRAY FOR ME – the first request and the first gift of the new Bishop of Rome – the “Eternal City” – twelve months ago today. Of all the marvellous and extraordinary qualifications that this humble...
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ST THOMAS’
Originally posted on Simon Marsh: St Thomas, Stockport | photo/kittykenrick PLAYING (AND PRAYING!) away tonight at St Thomas’ Stockport, Bramhall’s “mother church”, presently in interregnum. Goodness...
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A RESTING PLACE
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis! Benedictus qui venit in nomini Domini. Hosanna in excelsis! THE EXTRAORDINARY connection seen and heard here between Conductor Gary...
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MARS: WORK, REST AND PLAY
PARISH CLERGY are well used to talk of “five year plans” these days. There are “mission plans” and “growth action plans” – all sorts of short-term second-guessing – but not usually quite as far-out as...
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EITHER / OR
EITHER / OR. Dualistic thinking. One thing or another. Black or white. No shades of grey. Only one thing to say? … OK. But there'll be hell to pay. Jesus of Nazareth suggested a better way. Be “born”...
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ST PATRICK’S DAY
HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY! – Gerald Alexander Ellison, the then august Lord Bishop of Chester, confirmed me on this day, forty-two years ago, in St Mark’s Claughton – and all these years on I still think...
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FORMATION & MOTHERING
THE WORD “FORMATION” has been restored to common usage when speaking of persons preparing for, and functioning within, the Church’s ordained priesthood. I’m so glad. “Training” never quite cut the ice...
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EX MARIA VIRGINE
ON THE FEAST OF ST JOSEPH OF NAZARETH: ex Maria virgine. Out of the virgin Mary. What an epic tale. What an extraordinary and glorious incarnation – putting-flesh-on-the-bones-of – the story of God’s...
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THREE-MILE-AN-HOUR GOD
Simon Marsh:THREE MILES AN HOUR cropped up in the 24 hour conference I’ve just got back from – in one presentation and in no fewer than five separate conversations I enjoyed. I vaguely remembered...
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IN THE MIDDLE
WOW! A BRAIN-CELL TICKLING COUPLE OF DAYS at a Conference concerned with The Future of Ministry - followed half an hour or so after getting home by this month's Parochial Church Council Meeting for...
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IN A WELL ABOUT NOON
THERE'S USUALLY A NEAT LITTLE CIRCULAR WALL in the mind's eye. Those Jack and Jill early-readers (along with fearful little tales we made up for ourselves) had a way of engraving their illustrations...
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COLOURFUL ARRAY
Let us build up the true Church! Archbishop Oscar Romero shot dead whilst celebrating Mass 24 March 1980 I’M THANKING GOD TODAY for Ralph & Sue, first rate churchwardens. Their ministries equate...
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MAGNIFICAT!
LET ME MAKE GREAT THE NAME OF THE LORD! – now there’s an impressive response, from a young Galilean girl, who’s just heard, she believes, the word of an angel, that she’s to conceive and bear “God...
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