tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post380227694821180643..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: If Clergy Ads Told the Full StoryWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-21097389119202510162020-03-08T09:15:24.381+00:002020-03-08T09:15:24.381+00:00Rings very true. Liberal theology has killed the C...Rings very true. Liberal theology has killed the CofE and so it affects the number of parishes that now have to be pastored and the beliefs of the laity in them. I know one priest in Chichester diocese who grew a village church enormously but was hounded out by the small trad parish. Richnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-82037846140888586422018-04-20T11:49:43.050+01:002018-04-20T11:49:43.050+01:00Spot on. Spot on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-51838594002576642452017-08-10T06:55:17.583+01:002017-08-10T06:55:17.583+01:00I wonder if the Church of England is actually seri...I wonder if the Church of England is actually serious about ministry, of is it trying to reverse the Wilberforce reforms?<br /><br />Because this is slavery, and while people are doing house for duty, what happens to their pension contributions? <br /><br />This is a serious blot on the CofE landscape and should be banned. Perhaps Churches should be closed if people can't afford to pay for their clergy, or alternatively, the diocesan staff should be given 7 parishes to run, alongside their lofty duties, to keep a sense of perspective and to achieve value for money.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-16863122428862925342017-08-10T00:05:36.569+01:002017-08-10T00:05:36.569+01:00The advert should also say: incumbent should be mi...The advert should also say: incumbent should be mission minded with a heart for reaching young people but should be aware that the current dwindling, elderly congregations have no interest in changing anything. Ever. Things have always been done this way.<br /><br />��Billsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653525567474558373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-28547578266399824492017-08-09T22:36:35.495+01:002017-08-09T22:36:35.495+01:00This is why a friend of mine left her seven parish...This is why a friend of mine left her seven parishes to go and work in Scotland. Not sure it's better There, but at least she's fairly sure no one can fling a hymnbook quite thst far!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-8596877989961973992017-08-09T18:23:09.209+01:002017-08-09T18:23:09.209+01:00Reads a bit like the sort of profile Thomas Hardy ...Reads a bit like the sort of profile Thomas Hardy might have had for one of his characters had he written in the twenty first century! Ah, the improbability of reality! Perhaps you could start a Hardy character generator? Janet Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00663828975134608297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-14894270578090686412017-08-09T17:20:12.897+01:002017-08-09T17:20:12.897+01:00I am pretty sure I recognize the place...I am pretty sure I recognize the place...Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17981903741905155676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-965386989764200732017-08-09T13:42:09.243+01:002017-08-09T13:42:09.243+01:00A fellow priest has just let me borrow a book enti...A fellow priest has just let me borrow a book entitled "FIVE YEARS' HELL IN A COUNTRY PARISH" by the Rev. Edward Fitzgerald Synnott, which reminds me very much of the above.Father Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04902961006821419938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-90636811332724116692017-08-09T12:32:14.356+01:002017-08-09T12:32:14.356+01:00Facing the ongoing crisis of vocations, the Cathol...Facing the ongoing crisis of vocations, the Catholic Church has taken to borrowing priests from the monasteries, ie, from a population which thought it had discerned a vocation to quiet enclosure and contemplation.<br /><br />The advantage is that these poor saps have promised obedience until death to the head of their congregation, which means that they go where they are sent for as long as is decided for them. No nonsense about matching aspirations. And the One True Church is just as riven by unofficial schisms as the good old Tory Party at Prayer. Imagine a rabidly Latinist traditionalist, slightly to the right of Archbp Lefebvre, being matched with a bunch of enthusiastic evangelists who think John Smyth wasn't radical enough, and you have a recipe for more than flung hymnbooks.... <br /><br />Apart from that, your prospectus sounds just like the church I currently attend. Only without the modest charm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-71733865615939703972017-08-09T11:03:08.028+01:002017-08-09T11:03:08.028+01:00Rats! They've seen through all the careful dra...Rats! They've seen through all the careful drafting that Bishops and Archdeacons do...Pete Broadbenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17789854756337522930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-31927050324931200592017-08-09T09:39:55.195+01:002017-08-09T09:39:55.195+01:00Ha ha! Unfortunately,truer than some of the hilari...Ha ha! Unfortunately,truer than some of the hilarious stuff in benefice profiles.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07855249711137386687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-70547415543295210072017-08-08T22:25:40.916+01:002017-08-08T22:25:40.916+01:00Sounds like a job for the Salvation ArmySounds like a job for the Salvation ArmyHJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537892560100741636noreply@blogger.com