Today is VIT’s last day at Coverdale Hall. It seems an long time ago that she started the fairly surreal process of becoming a vicar. Indeed, it is a generation ago that she first offered the church her services – if the church had said “yes” then at that time she would not have been [...]
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Do you remember those “spot the difference” pictures you used to do as a child? Two similar pictures with a number of differences, some of which were fairly obvious and usually two or three which took a while to find. Here’s an updated version of one of those, except that we have two ordinands instead [...] I missed last week’s VFIT support group’s curry night, going instead a High School Musical Evening. That is, an evening of music at the High School which oldest VKIT attends, as opposed to an evening of Disney’s High School Musical. Thankfully. And it was great; shame about the curry though. Anyway, this week [...] Part of VIT’s training is to go to a parish not too far from Coverdale Hall. There she has to take part in services and generally muck in. She’s going to a Saturday breakfast club next week, with a Speaker. Of course there are almost as many different flavours of local church as there are [...] I shared a room at school with someone who introduced me to the delights of Pink Floyd. It was around about the time they released “Wish you were here“. One of the songs is called Welcome to the Machine: “Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It’s [...] Ever since I’ve known the Vicar in Training (VIT for short) she’s wanted to be a priest – no, more than that – she’s felt this inexplicable “call” to priesthood. It won’t go away. If she’d been applying for any other job she’d have told the Church of England to get stuffed long, long ago. [...] |
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