Tuesday 30 May 2017

The Rotating Rotas of the Rural Rector

To the great credit of the Lambfold Benefice,  out there in the Northamptonshire Uplands, their website is up to date, containing this month's services and even a bit of June's. Full marks for that.

Like many parishes, the rota appears complex. To their credit they spell it out in full so you don't need a degree in quantum mechanics to work out where to be each week, or whether you can stay in bed because Litchborough has a Sunday off.

But why do rural parishes have such complex rotas, their service times and locations controlled in this way by the weeks of the month? How has a system evolved whereby accountants and Anglicans are the only people on earth who know what week of the month it is?

I have a theory. Nobody can explain its meaning and it's based, ultimately, on the motion of the moon. The Church Rota is of pagan origin.

5 comments :

  1. The motion of the moon does not explain the fifth Sunday exception. Is this an even fifth Sunday or an odd fifth Sunday?

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  2. Small rural churches rely on retired vicars and their vicar doing double shifts; a pattern develops until along comes that pesky fifth Sunday. What actually happens then is that the laity take fifth Sunday services but everyone keeps very quiet about it as it's all rather unofficial.

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  3. Sorry - it doesn't work and pleases no-one. The solution is simple - lay presidency (allow non-ordained to celebrate communion) and those churches that are still not viable close.

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