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I’m not sure I have calmed down from the excitement of last night when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was announced as the new pope, succeeding His Holiness, Benedict XVI. In the run up to the conclave all sorts of people used it to forward their own agendas. The media, last night and this morning hasn’t been short […]
Continuing with looking at Henri Nouwen’s book The Return of the Prodigal Son for our adult Lent group, for session 2 we listened to extracts from the chapter The Younger Son’s Return. In discussion we talked about Nouwen’s description of living towards a second innocence. It provides a way to go forward after we’ve experienced […]
After last Thursday’s adult session, looking at the return of the younger son, Karlie wrote this poem: Cold loneliness I have unravelled And I try, I try To knit a suit of armor With these ragged cords That could connect me to others Warm bandage words wrap comfort around friends But applied to contain my […]
The Bible passage in the Office of Readings during Lent have been working through Exodus. It is a reminder to us of the link between the Passover and the rescue from Egypt and the Easter story. Today’s reading was the making of the Golden Calf. Many years ago, before Neil was ordained we went to […]
In our Lent book, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen used the image of ‘home’ to describe the spiritual reality that we are loved by God, held in the palm of his hand. The foreign land in the story, then, becomes an image for our rebellion against God. I was struck in our […]
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The Ordinariate has a new deacon! Please pray for the Revd Neil Taylor as he starts his diaconal ministry; for his family; and for the people of Eastbourne among whom he will serve.
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Tomorrow is the Second Sunday after Trinity, and Mass will be celebrated according to Divine Worship at 11:30am at Christ the King Church Langney. We’d love to see you! The pew sheet is available at the link below. This Mass will be the first in which the Revd Neil Taylor will exercise his ministry as a deacon. Please pray for him for his ordination today and Mass tomorrow. There's a bring-and-share lunch after Mass to celebrate the occasion.
When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.’
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Pew sheet for the Second Sunday after Trinity, 14 June 20260 CommentsComment on Facebook
Please continue to pray for Neil Taylor as he prepares to be ordained deacon on Saturday at Warwick Street.
Mass on Corpus Christi included the Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity. “...So help me God, and God’s Holy Gospels on which I place my hand.”
The Oath of Fidelity: a milestone on the journey
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Our seminarian Neil Taylor made his formal Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity at Mass on Sunday, as Bishop David had given permission for this to happen at Christ the King Church. This is a nece...1 CommentsComment on Facebook
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