Sunday’s parish communion was the first service in many weeks that organist Richard Berry was able to play the fine St Michael’s organ, following repairs.
Richard thanked many people, but especially John Boase, for their help. The Rev Jane Bradbury both presided at communion and preached, with Betty Booker, lay reader, assisting and Canon David Miller introducing the service.
The Rev Jane used colourful metaphors of fast driving to describe what it is to follow Jesus, in contrast to popular misconceptions of church as tedious and dull. The “hard-knuckle ride” is in fact the precursor of the greatest party of all. Maureen Grattan-Kane read the lesson, Michael Thomas led the prayers and Chris Bradbury directed the choir in David Ogden’s anthem “Christ has no body but yours”.
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