To All Saints Shirley arrived 9am got in at 9.30 a.m. Went OK and got a clap. Peruvian Gloria is normally unaccompanied in verse 2 Yvonne went up a tone or half a tone so I stopped trying to accompany. I'm not that clever! Sadly this church will become a chapel of ease. I played Mascagni Easter hymn, Bach Christ lag, Alan Gray Easter hymn and Hallelujah chorus at the end. The organ is a 2 manual Bishop. This was also Revd Yvonne Clarke’s last service there. How disappointing that only 2 hymns were sung from St George’s cathedral on Songs of Praise and Praise to the holiest is NOT an Easter hymn! The Serbian choir were terrific! Very impressed by St Mary Redcliffe great singing especially the Neil Cox setting and the Jonathan Dove. Joe Cryan and Clare Alsop were not mentioned in the credits and should have been! Unimpressed by Canterbury cathedral radio broadcast. Lovely evensong at SJ Stanford in C and Te Deum in B flat. Ledger This joyful Eastertide. Antiques roadshow...
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I had sent you a book reference re Cardinal Walter Kasper - 'Spiritual Ecumenism' (2007) New City Press NYC, USA. Also see the 'Directory for the Application of Principles & Norms on Ecumenism' (1993)Pontificum Consilium ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam, Vatican City, which lays out what RCs must and must not do when talking to people in other faiths or ecclesial communities. Nothing about the work of the Holy Spirit! It's as if the Reformation was nothing and had never taken place. The new 'splits' in the Anglican Communion is the current Reformation taking place. I don't think ecumenism will be with the RCs in the future as the RC Church seems to be saying 'be nice to others of good will in ecclesial communities but don't allow full communion as we are the one and only Church and everyone must re-join us. All others are heretics.'
Graham