Next week it is Volunteers’ Week. What is Volunteers’ week you may ask, well it is one week in the year when we are asked to say ‘thank you’ to all people who volunteer in our society. Volunteers’ Week is supported by both big and small charities.
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Did you know that:

• In 2018/19, 19.4 million (36%) people volunteered through a group at least once a year and over 11.9 million (22%) of people did so at least once a month.
• The most common reason overall for volunteering is wanting to improve things or help people (42%). 
• In 2019/20, there were around 163,000 voluntary organisations in the UK, most of which rely on volunteers.
• In 2017/18, the voluntary sector contributed £18.2bn to the UK economy. This is equivalent to about 0.9% of GDP.
• 67% of volunteers give their time to charities and community groups, but many others also volunteer in the public and private sectors.

Find out more at volunteersweek.org

​Liverpool Cathedral is one charity that benefits enormously from their volunteers. In fact the Peace Doves Installation would not have happened without the help of volunteers. The Cathedral as a whole could not function the way it does without our volunteers. We have over 100 people who come and use their gifts to help support the Cathedral. We have Welcomers, those people who you first meet on entering the Cathedral. We have Guides who know all the interesting facts and the history in the Cathedral. We have people who assist with school visits. We have people who use their gifts in the music department, we have people who act as Stewards during our worship services and we have people who assist in the worship. We have people who keep the robes in good order and stitch or embroider. We have people that knit and crochet through the Prayer Shawl ministry. We have people who ring the bells. Our archives department is run completely by volunteers! All these people give their time and talents to enable the Cathedral to function and we are just so grateful to them.

Our volunteer manager Jenny Moran has this to say about the volunteers:

"I have always valued our volunteers and now more than ever I feel I understand why they volunteer.  Over the last 15 months I have spent more time at home and on my own than any other time I can remember.  I got to the stage where I didn’t know what day it was or have anything to look forward to.  I now understand that as a Cathedral Volunteer you have a schedule to your week, you are going to come and be part of a great team on Tuesday or come and sit on a committee and help make the right decision for the Cathedral.  Volunteering is all about enjoying your time in the Cathedral be it in Education workshops or helping at Summer Arts Market.  The Cathedral volunteers are truly amazing and never let us down, they are here in the rain, they stand for long hours and they share the amazing story of this building and in doing so manage to save the Cathedral millions of pounds.  Most of you will know me and the best way I can express my gratitude to you all is by raising a glass and saying thank you so very much for volunteering for us, we genuinely couldn’t do it without you." 
 
So in summary people and organisations benefit from the gifts and talents people have and the Bible teaches us to use the gifts and talents to honour God. So as Volunteers’ Week approaches let us give thanks to the many millions of volunteers in our country and let us thank those who volunteer in Liverpool Cathedral. The world would be in a very sorry state without you. So

Thank You
Dean Sue

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Here’s something that hasn’t happened for a long time – a Cathedral full of people! Yet, with space around us to feel safe and free from anxiety, especially for those who have hardly ventured out in the last year or more.
 
Last week’s LightNight and the launch of the fabulous Peace Doves art installation was such a threshold moment as we finally felt as if we’d stepped into a new reality. A move away from the nightmare of the Covid-shaped reality of the last 15 months to something more like life in all its fulness. Our senses were all ministered to: the awesome spectacle of the Peace Doves itself, with its 18000 paper doves, all carrying a personal prayer for peace; the sound of beautifully-crafted music from our incredibly talented musicians at the Cathedral; the delightful smells and tastes of the Welford Bistro wafting into the building; and the touch of a button being laid in memory of someone special in the ‘Peace to Ourselves’ reflective space. It was not lost on me that all this renewal and healing happened on the same weekend as the church celebrated the festival of Pentecost, remembering the great outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit on the first followers of Jesus. God’s unmasked spirit of peace was certainly blowing through the Cathedral!
 
No longer does the Cathedral feel ‘hollowed out’, as one regular had aptly described the impact of the pandemic, but is being refilled. And not only was there buzz and joy; there was real catharsis too. One dictionary defines catharsis as “the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions”. That, it seems to me, is exactly what has been happening these last few days. I have a feeling that there is a great deal more of that to come. But fret not, the Peace Doves installation is with us right through the summer, and the music, catering and the Cathedral itself, by God’s grace, with us a for a good deal longer! You are very welcome to come and experience that catharsis for yourself.
 
In the meantime, I hope that the beautiful Peace Doves prayer, composed by Canon Philip, will also provide catharsis for you at this time, whether or not you feel able to venture out at the moment.
 
O brooding Spirit, in soaring flight over stormy seas, teach us to pray.
Carry our cries and hopes to God’s heart.
Bring us to firm ground when we lose our moorings.
Come and make your home within us.
Bring us new life and make us fruitful by your constant inspiration.
Through Jesus, who laid down his life so that we might rise up, our peace, now and for ever. Amen.
 
With good wishes
Canon Neal

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Today we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. The narrative underpinning the Feast of Pentecost is rooted in the second book written by the author of Luke’s Gospel, the Acts of the Apostles. Luke closes the resurrection appearances of Jesus with the Ascension and with Jesus’ promised gift of the Holy Spirit. On the day of Pentecost, Holy Spirit came to the apostles and settled on them like tongues of fire.  It is for this reason that tongues of fire have become a classic image for the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ promise of the gift of the Spirit also features in John’s account of the farewell discourse as Jesus prepares his disciples for his death, in the passages selected for our Gospel reading.
 
For those of you who wanted to do some thinking and preparation for today’s service during the preceding week, I invited you to reflect on the image of fire. Today’s picture, taken from the illustrated communion book, The Lord is Here!, shows  the Holy Spirit bringing life to the world like a tongue of fire.
 
Lord God,
you gave the Holy Spirit to your people,
like tongues of fire.
Set our hearts on fire with your love,
that we may spread your good news
to the ends of the earth;
we make our prayer in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
 
Next Sunday is Trinity Sunday when the Church celebrates the mystery of God made known in the world as Father, as Son, and as Holy Spirit. The image to help us experience the mystery of God of Trinity is night sky. You can find out more about that theme here https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. We would really appreciate you letting us know how you are using these materials. Please send us your ideas and photos of the things you may create; email them to Nelson.Pike@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk.
 
To learn more about The Lord is here! and other communion resources, please follow this link to the relevant page of the St. Mary’s Centre website: http://www.st-marys-centre.org.uk/resources/childrenandcommunion.html.
 
You are warmly invited to join us in worship online. We are livestreaming our 10:30am service on both our Facebook and YouTube pages. To stream the service on Facebook, follow this link to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolCathedral. To stream the service on YouTube, follow this link to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/LiverpoolCathedral/videos.
 
I send Pentecost greetings to all.
 
Canon Leslie

It’s been a very long journey for these doves! They must have had the longest migration journey than any other bird. Perhaps even longer than the dove that was released from Noah’s ark. Who knows?
 
I cannot tell you how good it is to have watched the building of the peace doves installation by the renowned artist Peter Walker. The installation has been planned for almost two years and we were meant to have the installation this time last year. The actual installation began last Saturday with the arrival of the large frame from which Peter has hung around 2000 doves and will be completed this evening in readiness for the grand opening at Lightnight tomorrow evening.
 
During the past few weeks there has been an industrious group of staff and volunteers stapling the doves into shape and on the back of each dove is a prayer. As I have wondered in to speak to the volunteers many have shown me some of the prayers. Prayers for peace, prayers for those who are sick with COVID, prayers for those who have died. These prayers come in many different languages and from people of all ages.
 
The dove has been a symbol for peace since the beginning of time. In the Book of Genesis, we hear the story of Noah and the release of the dove as the waters subside. The doves were seen as harbingers of peace and symbols of hope and new life.
 
There has not been much peace over the past year as we have battled with COVID 19. This battle continues and of course we have now seen the devastation of war in what we would call the Holy Land. So more now than ever we call and pray for peace among peoples and nations.
 
So what is peace? Peace or shalom is an internal tranquility. A feeling of rightness with ourselves and the world. God’s wish for us is that we live free from fear, experiencing shalom, or peace. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture is packed with reference that emphasises God’s desire for a fear-free, peace-filled world.
 
Peace is one of the last gifts that Jesus gave to his followers during the last supper.
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
…I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart I have overcome the world.
 
So as we gaze upon the Peace Doves Installation we need to continue the prayers written on the backs of the doves. We need to pray for peace in our world, we need to pray for the healing of the nations and we need to remember that we are all one human family called by God to live in peace.
 
So come and see the longest migrating doves. Come and reflect on the past year. Come and pray for peace in your own life, pray for peace in the lives of others, and pray for peace among nations.
 
Come and see the doves, harbingers of peace and symbols of hope and new life.

Dean Sue

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(Photo by John Gibbons on Unsplash. Thanks to John Gibbons for sharing on Unsplash)

​Within the University we are once more in assessment period – the third one now in this strange environment.  As I’ve mentioned before, I like to try to put my students’ minds at rest with encouraging emails just before their exams.  It’s not the same now with deadlines for assignments, but the sentiment is still the same; encouraging them to do their best, stay calm and think through things; that if they feel they have done so, done their best, then I will be more than happy; and to remember that at the end of the day, their worth is far more than the mark they get – they will go on to show who they are by the way they serve our patients, their care and compassion, being wonderful and distinctive individuals.

For we are all just that, beautiful, wonderful, distinctive – made, as we know within our faith, in the image of God.  Sometimes it is difficult to know who that person is, especially when just starting out in life.  Especially so for those who live in circumstances where the social pressures are very different – we might say we have a choice, but the places where we live, the pressures of financial burdens, peer and family pressure may prove otherwise.

At evensong on Sunday, our scripture readings brought forward that most powerful revelation of who Jesus was, during his ministry in Galilee (Luke 4).  Filled with the gift of the spirit, Jesus comes to teach in the synagogues and, in reading the great prophecy of Isaiah, shows the very fulfilment of that prophecy….”today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing”, he declares…showing that he indeed was the Messiah, the anointed one; the one to bring Good News to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives, recover the sight of the blind, let the oppressed go free. 

For ourselves, sometimes the circumstances in which we live make it difficult to perhaps remember who we once were, think about who we are right now or what our journey will be like in the future.  Like the individual in the photo above, though out alone within God’s wonderful creation, perhaps we still can’t quite see who we are, or the issues in our lives still make us feel lonely, isolated.  As I have written before, I am keen for us as a community to become more aware of Dementia and other health conditions as we live out the gospel, in loving and caring for each other.  Yesterday was the start of Dementia Awareness Week 2021 (#DAW2021), where the call for all is to become more aware of what it is and take action to improve the lives of those affected by it.  I am a dementia friend myself, and I know a number of you are too – thank you for that.  But more action is still needed, and my hope and prayer is that as we come out of this pandemic, we move further in making the Cathedral itself more dementia-friendly, and also bring other healthcare issues into our vision, in our love of neighbour.
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For many healthcare issues do challenge us, challenge who we are.  We will hear something of the personal account of such challenges in our 4th Gilbert Scott Science and Faith lecture tonight from Dr Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director of the Westminster Abbey Institute and expert writer and thinker on ethics and spiritualty in public life….who tonight shares with us something of her own personal journey challenged by cancer and how it became in some ways a source of joy.
https://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/108/section.aspx?category=Lectures+%26+Debates. 

The lectures are free and it is live tonight on our Liverpool Cathedral YouTube page at 7:30 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsJ6VEpIiNKqScoNE5iUxIA. 
 
As disciples of Christ, we are not immune from the struggles of life around us; but we are uniquely called to be alongside others in their struggles, their pain, their anxieties, their social conditions, their grief.  John’s gospel on Sunday morning spoke of Jesus’ discourse with the Father; sending his disciples out into the world, just as the Father sent him; dedicating himself to God for their sake, entrusting them into the Father’s love and guidance through the gift of the Spirit, to work as he did and dedicate themselves to God.  We are the same – then, now – as disciples.  The gift of the spirit is within us, typifying who we are, helping and guiding us in being alongside others in their difficulties.  We might not, at times, see the exact way we are meant to go, or who we are meant to be – but trusting in God’s love for us will still guide us on the best path to take, and the people that we journey onto being….in Jesus’ name.

As always, with my love and prayers; go gently…

Canon Mike 😊

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Christ has gone up on high
and has led captivity captive. Alleluia!
 
Today is the Seventh Sunday of Easter and the Sunday following Ascension Day. Today’s Gospel reading from chapter 17 of John’s Gospel concludes the long farewell discourse, before Jesus goes out to face his arrest, with what is often called Jesus’ high priestly prayer. In this prayer Jesus looks forward with confidence to returning to the Father. What John expresses in this high priestly prayer, Luke symbolises through the Ascension which links the close of Luke’s Gospel with the opening of the Acts of the Apostles. The Feast of the Ascension (kept on the Thursday before the Seventh Sunday of Easter), is seen as Jesus going to his Father and as his enthronement. 
 
For those of you who wanted to do some thinking and preparation for today’s service during the preceding week, I invited you to reflect on the image of royal robes. In today’s picture, Teddy Horsley is reflecting on his Christus Rex.
 
Risen and ascended Christ,
we proclaim you to be our King.
As you have called us to serve you,
help us to live up to our calling;
for you are the King of glory,
now and always.
Amen.
 
Next Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost, celebrating how the Holy Spirit came to the apostles and settled on them like tongues of five. The image to help us prepare for next Sunday’s theme is fire. You can find out more about that theme here https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. We would really appreciate you letting us know how you are using these materials. Please send us your ideas and photos of the things you may create; email them to Nelson.Pike@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk.
 
To learn more about Teddy Horsley and his adventures, check out his website here: https://teddyhorsley.org/, and his page on the St. Mary’s Centre website here: http://www.st-marys-centre.org.uk/resources/TeddyHorsley.html.
 
You are warmly invited to join us in worship online. We are livestreaming our 10:30am service on both our Facebook and YouTube pages. To stream the service on Facebook, follow this link to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolCathedral. To stream the service on YouTube, follow this link to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/LiverpoolCathedral/videos.
 
Teddy Horsley sends his Ascensiontide greetings to all.
 
Canon Leslie

It’s been a busy week in Parliament with the Queens Speech on Tuesday and the inevitable debates in Parliament following on from Speech itself and the elections last week. Followers of the political scene have had a lot to focus on. However on Monday a strange piece of legislation, mysteriously called the ‘Cathedrals Measure’ received Royal Assent from Her Majesty.  It had duly passed through the General Synod of the Church of England and then through Parliament; the laws it enacts only affect Cathedrals in England.
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You may be surprised to learn that Cathedrals are not Charities.  The majority are ancient institutions predating the Charities Act and somehow they carried on as if little had happened as Charity Law developed.   The question of whether or not Cathedrals were well governed was to some extent down to good luck and local tradition.  A recent working party recommended to the Church a little bit of rationalisation and that all Cathedrals needed to have similar governance regimes.

The governing body of a Cathedral is its Chapter and under the new Measure it will act like a Board of Charity Trustees and Cathedrals will gradually come under the jurisdiction of the Charity Commission.  The role of the Dean as head of the worshipping community is combined with the duty of chairing Chapter and ensuring that the Cathedral operates efficiently as a business and that its staff and volunteers feel valued and are well managed.

We have been fortunate in Liverpool Cathedral to be blessed with good leadership and a cohort of Residentiary Canons with different gifts and talents all contributing to the success of the institution. The executive team lead by Mike Eastwood are also first class. As a lawyer, I have been asked to serve as a Non-Executive on many Boards and Charities and our Cathedral is one of the best run of all the institutions I know. What’s more, the atmosphere in Chapter is one of mutual respect and there is a real desire to do God’s will and help to build his Kingdom. Nevertheless, we are now to review our own Statutes to ensure that we implement the New Measure here in the Cathedral.

When we start a new job we are supplied with a Contract of Employment; but if we get on well with our bosses, it’s a document that we may well never look at again.  We only need to refer to it, if something begins to go wrong and we need to understand our legal rights. To be honest, having to revert to our legal contract is a sign that something has already gone wrong. So it is with the constitution of a body like a Cathedral. When things are going well, the constitution is very rarely referred to. Perhaps we need to check when a Chapter member is due for re-election but apart from that the document remains unread on a shelf or in a folder on the hard drive of our Computer. But it needs to be effective to help sort things out when things do go wrong. We are all human after all.

Jesus constitutional arrangements do not make much sense to your average lawyer. ‘This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.  I appointed you (to the Board or wherever) to bear fruit, fruit that will last.’ No wonder that Jesus’ Apostles teaching emphasised that the Law had been superseded by our relationship with Jesus and our love for one another. Who needs laws or Cathedral Measures when the love of God rules OK within the community.  Reverting to the lawyers and to the law, is a sign that Jesus’ constitutional arrangements have somehow gone wrong.

When Jesus ascended into heaven, it marked a new phase. His disciples needed a new relationship with each other and with God, abiding with Jesus in love, sustained by worship and prayer and encouraged by a good infusion of the Holy Spirit to guide them on their way; and with luck there wouldn’t be a lawyer or a Cathedral Measure in sight

Canon Andrew

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Just after my husband Mark died on March 2 I was inundated with cards, flowers, gifts and messages. I am so very grateful for all the love that was shared. It was a great encouragement and brought a deep sense of being cared for and embraced in what was (and continues to be) a terrible time of grief and loss. I am very grateful to everyone, particularly the Cathedral company for the support. Mark’s funeral was a beautiful testament to his life – a life well lived and a man well loved. Even with the covid restrictions – we as a family were able to share with hundreds of people this funeral via the virtual link as well as via a tribute page set up on facebook. We did not feel alone. We felt outrageously loved. And the incredible love of God embraced us as well – that sense of God being with us and surrounding us with God’s peace. Then followed a period of compassionate leave which gave me a brief but significant space to reflect on what my life was going to be like without Mark. It’s all very much a work in progress!
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Since then I have experienced a series of firsts in my Cathedral life: my first day back at work, first leading morning prayer, first evensong, first presiding at the Eucharist, first time back in person on a Sunday, first sermon back in the pulpit! Grief going in and out in waves, being strong, feeling weak, tripping up, getting back on my feet again.   

These last 18 months have been hard for us all and things have changed for all of us over this time. My situation is not unique. Many of us have lost loved ones, held funerals with just a handful of people in person, held off wakes and family gatherings. Even if we haven’t lost a loved one we are all grieving in some way for the lives that have been changed during these covid times…And now they are changing again. We are slowly coming out of lock-down and renegotiating a new way to live. Each of us needing time and space (both literally and metaphorically) to make sense of what is ahead of us.

When the cathedral reopens on May 17 we are together going to play a part in expressing some of the mixed-up feelings that have been held in tension since March last year. As the Peace Doves descend we might be able to use this installation as an opportunity to give thanks for God’s outrageous generous love, for the many things we are grateful for. But, also reflect on those things we are lamenting – our grief at losing loved ones, of missing out on time to share with each other, for job’s lost, for lives put on hold.  

The Peace Dove installation and Light Night are a chance for us to come together again and share our stories and ourselves. They are also a chance for us to invite others to the Cathedral to enjoy the space, eat some excellent food in the new look café, buy a gift from the Cathedral shop, share in worship and tell others about the outrageous love of God. My prayer is that over the next few months we slowly but surely grow more deeply in love with each other and in God. 

Canon Ellen

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​Christ is risen. He is risen, indeed. Alleluia!
 
Today is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. The Easter season, spanning the period from Easter Sunday until Pentecost, celebrates life with the risen Christ. On the Thursday between the Sixth and Seventh Sunday of Easter the Church celebrates the Feast of the Ascension. Today’s Gospel reading prepares for the Ascension by revisiting core teaching that Jesus gave to his disciples in the farewell discourse at the Last Supper as narrated by John. When Jesus is preparing his disciples for their ongoing life in the world after he has been taken from them, he makes two important points.  He calls them his friends and he gives them the commandment to love one another as he has loved them. The group of people whom Jesus leaves behind are to be united as a team bound together in mutual love.
 
For those of you who wanted to do some thinking and preparation for today’s service during the preceding week, I invited you to reflect on the image of teams. In today’s picture, from their book, Exploring the parish church, Rees and Sara are at school, celebrating the team spirit of working and sharing together.
 
Risen Lord Jesus,
you show true love to your people.
Send your Holy Spirit to inspire us,
that we may show true love to you
and to those with whom we live;
for you are our friend and companion,
now and always.
 
Next Sunday, the Seventh Sunday of Easter, and the Sunday following Ascension Day, the Gospel reading focuses attention on the Ascension, seen as Jesus going to his Father and as his enthronement. The image to help us prepare for next Sunday’s theme is royal robes. You can find out more about that theme here https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. We would really appreciate you letting us know how you are using these materials. Please send us your ideas and photos of the things you may create; email them to Nelson.Pike@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk.
 
To read Exploring the parish church online, you can follow this link to the book on the St. Mary’s Centre website: http://www.st-marys-centre.org.uk/resources/World%20Faiths%20Today%20series/Storybooks%20World%20Faiths%20Today/Parish%20Church%20story%20English.pdf. For more adventures with Rees and Sara in the World Faiths Today series, check out the relevant page of the St. Mary’s Centre website linked here: http://www.st-marys-centre.org.uk/resources/worldfaithstoday.html.
 
You are warmly invited to join us in worship online. We are livestreaming our 10:30am service on both our Facebook and YouTube pages. To stream the service on Facebook, follow this link to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolCathedral. To stream the service on YouTube, follow this link to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/LiverpoolCathedral/videos.
 
Rees and Sara send their Sunday greetings to all.
 
Canon Leslie

In the early days of May 1941 the Luftwaffe brought terror to Liverpool, the last sustained bombing of a British city before Germany turned its firepower East, invading an unprepared Soviet Union later that month. The so-called May Blitz became part of our folklore, and for a certain generation of older Liverpudlians it is something they remember vividly, having endured nights in air raid shelters, or under the stairs, in childhood or early adulthood.

But for those of us who grew up in peace, with only the scars in the city’s built environment as evidence, a recording released by the BBC last weekend is well worth hearing. One of the Corporation’s sound engineers, a Scouser, with the gentle accent of that era, took up recording equipment to a tower where the fire watchers were, in the middle of one of the night-time raids. He describes how St Luke’s church at the top of Bold Street, ‘the bombed out church’ had succumbed, because the firemen couldn’t get any water, bombs having shattered the water mains. And as we hear the blasts all around him he describes how the local people are coming out with buckets, asking to firemen for some water, to make tea, but they can’t have any. It’s a poignant and almost comical detail in the middle of the tragedy. Many lost their lives.

As we remember, we pray for peace, and commit ourselves to being peace-makers. Our Cathedral was being built in the middle of this destruction, a sign of hope, by the people, to the glory of God. As we prepare to welcome the city and diocese next month, with our further reopening, and the installation of the Peace Doves in the Well, we ask that many would encounter and drink deeply from God’s peace, in our hospitality and worship.

You can listen to the recording here, from c. 25 minutes in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000vp01. 

Canon Philip 

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