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| St David's Day Walk from St Non's through St Davids Source: Twitter |
Yesterday was St David's Day. The Tweetosphere was full of tweets about the patron saint of Wales but the 'little things' St David spoke of were not aired, just the phrase.
David's last words to his followers were in a sermon on the Sunday prior to his death: "Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us." (Wikipedia)
The 'little things' referred to, keeping the faith and your creed, walking in the path that our fathers have trod before us are omitted, probably because they are precisely the things that the bishops of the Church in Wales have ceased to observe.
The path walked from St Non's through the city of St Davids on St David's Day, pictured above, shows just one clergyman among a group of women clergy who now control St Davids Cathedral which has become more of a tourist attraction than a place of pilgrimage.
Preaching to politicians at Cardiff’s St David’s Day National Service at St John the Baptist Church on Sunday the Archbishop of Wales urged politicians to 'model St David'. Perhaps with tongue in cheek he said: David and his monks, whether doing the little things or the larger ones, were focussed and concentrating servants of God and God’s kingdom; people who, as Jesus demanded, built their lives on the rock of his teaching, absorbed it, lived it out and stood firm and strong in times of testing."
The rock has crumbled in Wales.
When tested the bishops have not keep the faith or walked the path our fathers trod before us. They have conformed to this world pursuing 'inclusive' policies, not the faith of our fathers and creed.
Talking of St David's Day, did anyone - DID ANYONE? - hear the sycophantic verbal diarrhoea pebble-dashing the ear drums of the listening public to BBC Radio 4's Sunday Worship on Sunday morning? Andy Crap doing what he does best: misleading and obfuscating for all he was worth; in a desperate attempt to demonstrate that 'things are happening' in the haemorrhaging Church in Wales. Whoever thought of giving this buffoon £10m for 'mission' should be locked up.
ReplyDeleteLeaving aside the turgid and uninspiring narrative, let alone the pathetic examples of 'where the church is flourishing' (that is to say, barely hanging-on in there but because they were anything other than a typical parish church, it was deemed 'cool'), or Joanna of Tyddwei blessing us from a beach with barely-convincing Welsh, I was interested in one so-called missional development.
We dropped in on a prayer session at a cafe on Bangor High Street. It was led by the Succentor of Bangor Cathedral (how many staff has that place got at the moment, considering the Dean is barely half-time?) who was joined by two or three students. It left me wondering whether this is why you cannot find the daily offices being said - or sung - in Bangor Cathedral on most weekdays for love nor money. The place is locked tight at around 1pm most days, and there is certainly no early opening for Morning Prayer before 10am. Surely, the whole purpose of having a Succentor is to sing the liturgy on a daily basis, or to lead the said offices?
But given that no-one applied for the vacancy of organist and master of the choristers after the estimable Mr Booth was hounded out (allegedly because the Dean's bullying tendencies have been noised abroad in sufficient volume to deter any serious applicants) there is not even a regular music list being published on-line these days because everything is so ad-hoc. The long-suffering Martin Brown is keeping the show on the road, while being treated with barely concealed contempt by car-crash Cathy (if only he knew what she was saying behind his back).
But, as you say, AB, the rock has crumbled in Wales - and Andy Crap was demonstrating why this is the case with his usual lack of cultural and theological literacy. He's a bigger joke than all the rest of them put together.
Whoever thought of promoting Crap the buffoon to the purple was also a buffoon.
DeleteFor certain the Holy Ghost didn't get a look in.
I'm now wondering whether Andy Crap recorded this for the BBC when he was down in Cardiff a couple of weeks ago, when he took his ex-wife to the opera, accompanied by two local dignitaries: Mr & Mrs Paul Goulding QC?
DeleteAbsolutely CG and the tragedy is that statistically he could one day become "archbishop" of what is left of the Church in Wales. An irrelevance presiding over nothing.
ReplyDeleteOne wonders if things can get any worse now in the CinW. The picture shows very clearly the consequences of women bishops. Anyone bemusedly watching the procession would be left in no doubt.
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