In order to appeal to today's modern, smartphone, wi-fi, connected Millennials, the new set if saints are from the era that today best captures the leading edge of Anglican worship.
The 60s
The Road to Salvation? |
Saint
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Patronage
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St Rita the Lovely
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Meter Maids
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St Eleanor Rigby
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All the lonely people
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St Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
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Kaleidoscopes
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St Pablo Fanques
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Fairs
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St Henry the Horse
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Dancers of the Waltz
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St Maxwell
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Silver Hammers
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St Molly
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Singers in Bands
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Ss Vera, Chuck & Dave
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Grandchildren
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St Jude
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Musicians who live in the shadow of their parents
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St Desmond
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Barrow Boys
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St JoJo
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Returns
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St Father McKenzie
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Unappreciated preachers and un-darned socks
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St Pam
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Polythene
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St Billy
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Shears
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St Yoko
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Pretentiousness
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The new saints have upset traditionalists. When the Revd Blue Meanie was asked where this new direction had left the Church of England, he replied, "Nowhere, Man."
Ha!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile the Catholics are about to begin the Jubilee Year of Mersey.
ReplyDeleteWhich is never strained.
DeleteJust as St Augustine took St Jerome to task over the translation of "gourd", so must I reprove you, Eileen, over St Lucy-in-the-Sky's association with kaleidoscopes. She is, of course, the patron of those suffering from tummy-ache, based on the line "The girl with colitis goes by".
ReplyDeleteArch Bishop Carey says that you've earned 100 years in Hell for posting this. Particularly as The Beatles were outside the pale of Evangelical Christians.
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