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It  was a great pleasure to welcome members of the Prayer Book Society to our service of Choral Evensong on 16th October 2011. For the choir members, it was particularly pleasing to sing this service to considerably more than the five members or so who normally grace our congregation.

      The service was taken by  'Mr Hazlett, who doeth all things well' and as usual he gave us a wonderful sermon alongside his participation in the music of the service.

Below, I print an except from an email I received from the PBS Northern Branch Secretary, Mrs Rosemary Hall, who I thank for the way she and her colleagues supported the endeavours of the Church and choir.:- 

" It was good to meet you on Sunday, and we all enjoyed being with you all at the Minster, for the splendid Service - beautifully sung, and the chat afterwards. It was a real pleasure to be with you in the wonderful church. I came on the Friday before and had a lovely visit and looked at everything!

We look forward to coming again to the Minster as a group - perhaps in the Spring (now that the nights are darker and cooler from now on), and now we all know how to get there!

Thank you so much for all you did to make us welcome...."

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Readers may be interested in the view of Quentin Letts, the Daily Mail columnist/sketchwriter :

" Well done to Giles Fraser, Chancellor of ST Paul's,for showing Christian forbearance with the anti-capitalist campaigners camping outside the cathedral,

       Fraser's ,live and let live attitude confounds authoritarians and wins the Church new friends.

He surely knows that when he wants to get rid of the campers, all he has to do is organise an outdoor sponsored singalong of happy-clappy hymns.

At the umpteenth chorus of Shine Jesus Shine, or any similar horror by go-ahead Graham Kendrick, even the most grungy peacenik will leg it for the horizon."

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Copied from the August "Cornerstone" -- St Gabriel's magazine Aug 2009 :-

13TH APRIL 2009 report - THE CROSS HACKED DOWN !! Click EASTER PANEL left     12TH APRIL 2009    -   PROGRESS ON THE BELLS - CLICK PANEL TO THE LEFT     

20th January 2009 - Daily Mail "Answers to Correspondents"

QUESTION of England still Church carry out  `Churching'  whereby new mothers would give thanks for a safe birth?

 "AS in all things, the Church of England moves on. The Churching of Women, in the Book of Common Prayer, was more properly called The Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth. It still exists as The Thanksgiving for the Birth of a Child. In today's world, it is more family ­friendly and involves the father of the child as well as its mother.

Throughout my ministry, I have used it as a precursor to baptism as it includes the giving of a Gospel to the child, something which I hope will be of use to them when they are old enough to understand.

                                                                      Fr Allan Campbell-Wilson, Cayton, Scarborough, Yorks

             What would Jesus think?

A Muslim queries our attitudes to Homosexuality  -- see letter in POINTS OF VIEW

IN PRAISE OF EVENSONG

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