http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/60 on being the family of a woman training to be a priest in the Church of England Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/60/comment-page-1#comment-29 Gill Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:40 +0000 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/?p=60#comment-29 How right you are about sausages. I am currently in the discernment process but it turns out I am a very inconvenient sausage because I feel called to self-supporting ministry, locally deployed, which would mean serving in my husband's parish. Now, I know it isn't a good idea to train under your spouse but we had a written agreement from the rural dean to supervise me. I don't drive and we are very isolated in our parish. As you rightly say, where is there room for the Holy Spirit in the face of man-made rules? (Only guidelines in fact with allowance for exceptions in rare circumstances). If I were turned down by a panel I could accept that but it looks like, even if I get good reports from my interviews, I may not be allowed to get that far. Well I'll just see myself as a waitrose top quality spicy sausage then. Let them have their hydrogenised, processed, reclaimed whatevers! How right you are about sausages. I am currently in the discernment process but it turns out I am a very inconvenient sausage because I feel called to self-supporting ministry, locally deployed, which would mean serving in my husband’s parish. Now, I know it isn’t a good idea to train under your spouse but we had a written agreement from the rural dean to supervise me. I don’t drive and we are very isolated in our parish. As you rightly say, where is there room for the Holy Spirit in the face of man-made rules? (Only guidelines in fact with allowance for exceptions in rare circumstances). If I were turned down by a panel I could accept that but it looks like, even if I get good reports from my interviews, I may not be allowed to get that far. Well I’ll just see myself as a waitrose top quality spicy sausage then. Let them have their hydrogenised, processed, reclaimed whatevers!

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