Wednesday, 19 August 2020
First women priests.
So...here we seem to be again. ..... early in the morning all my attempts to publish fail but somehow I seem to manage it around lunch time I am unsure which gremlin to blame for this but at least I can get something down. I am aware that I have become forgetfull. ... nothing much in my life can be blamed for this but I now have to write everything down straight away or I tend to forget. One of my oldest friends died yesterday...and I am sad. She became a priest in the very first wave. I met her when she took the funeral service for the first David in Chelmsford and over the years we talked alot but it was only when I came to live in Cornwall that I was priested. She was delighted.....She never managed to get here...its a long journey from Essex but we stayed in touch and this morning I will say the funeral prayers for her here...Rest in peace Audrey...you will be missed.
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I am glad that you managed to get this blog out today, as an important tribute to Audrey. Whose memory you hold precious, but also because she was one of the first Women to be Ordained Priest at a time of great change and turmoil in the Church of England.
May she RIP and Rise in Glory.
I recall the first time I ever met a woman priest. Very new too the CofE in 2008 I went to an 8 am service in my then parish and met a lady outside wearing hat an scarf and we went into church together having said good morning. Than she took her scarf of and I saw the collar and realised that I was meeting someone for the first time who would have a profound influence on the way that I viewed the Church I had only recently joined. She was an NSM Curate at that time, but she later joined our benefice as a HfD Priest, running four churches in her charge. She was lovely, thoughtful and kind. And I was grateful for her ministry while I was in that Benefice.
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