Month: July 2012

Flash Compline Wednesday 18th July

Byartsyhonker July 16, 2012 0 Comments
There will be a Flash Compline service at 9.30pm on Wednesday, 18th July 2012, at Christ Church Greyfriars, near St Paul's tube - here's a map Music: We will use this setting of Compline. We will have a small number of spare copies, which you can purchase for £2 if you want to keep them, or borrow if you don't. Don't worry if you aren't a confident singer -- follow along with the text and see...

Let all the world in every corner sing.

Byartsyhonker July 13, 2012 7 Comments
I had a bit of a rant on Twitter this morning. I was upset by the government's continued assault on the poor and vulnerable through the dismantling of the welfare state, and I was frustrated with churches for what seems like apathy in the face of it, though it may be that it's closer to self-preservation than lack of care. Too often, it seems, we want to leave "politics" out of our religious...

More on the same Measure

Byartsyhonker July 10, 2012 0 Comments
Background update: voting on the amended Measure for the consecration of women as bishops was adjourned until November in light of opposition to Clause 5.1.c (the second amendment by the House of Bishops, which I discussed in a previous post). The House of Bishops will meet in September to discuss what to do next. Rev Peter Ould, who I follow on Twitter, said this: The main objection to Clause...

A call for words…

Byartsyhonker July 5, 2012 1 Comment
So, I wrote some words last night, rather too many in fact, about my interpretation of various Church of England stuff. That post has received over three hundred hits, more than all my posts on organ fundraising combined. I joked about this on Twitter, asking if I could make the organ fundraising more controversial... ...and someone remarked I could only do that if I were the wife of the Dean of...

A Provisional Note

Byartsyhonker July 4, 2012 5 Comments
The dear old Church of England has been tying itself into knots of late over the Bishops' amendments to the Measure on Women in the Episcopate. The good bishops made two amendments. One has been welcomed as providing some clarity about exactly from where episcopal power is derived in the case of an alternative bishop being assigned to a parish (essentially it's the inherent bishoppy-ness, not the...

State of the Organ

Byartsyhonker July 4, 2012 0 Comments
So, I had a chat with our organ tuner, Tarquin Wiggins, on Friday. He'd visited on Thursday and found the organ so bad that he had to abort tuning. The four leather bellows needing repair are now leaking very badly, with the result that the system is losing pressure very easily. Parishioners at St Andrew's may have noticed the organ cutting out intermittently during the last hymn on Sunday; this...