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thank you Dear Editor, I want to thank you and
your team very much for the feature about Holy Faith in the current issue of the Chichester Magazine. It was great that you could include an image of the website as there are plenty of people around who don’t really know what a website is.
People are interested in the content of the feature and there have also been comments about how well the feature has been put together - by all of you!
Stella Pendleton Website Administrator,
holyfaith.org.uk
a brilliant issue Dear Editor, The last Chichester
Magazine was a brilliant issue, full of excellent articles & interesting items. I’m following several of them up, as here at Tillington the Queen’s Pageant Master has authorised us as one of the official Beacons. All exciting & a great privilege.
Gerald Gresham Cooke, Petworth may the best CaPtion win
letters/poems/reflections
thank you Dear Editor, Thank you for your 99th
issue (Jan-Feb 2012). I enjoyed reading about the fourth century ‘Preacher with a Golden Mouth’, St John Chrysostom, whose “homilies were always thoroughly biblical” (p9). This sat well beside the interview with the Vicar of Firle who says that “it is not orthodoxy that people are craving, it is authenticity” (p7). Together, these articles reminded me that Jesus also had to give people truths they did not necessarily want. One example of this today is the need to keep sexual conduct within marriage (following the Lord’s inclusion of fornication and adultery as sins, Mark 7v21). This means that I cannot agree with the Revd Ritchie who welcomes the book Reasonable and Holy supporting same-sex couples (p27). After all, such relationships are contrary to the design of creation (Romans 1v18-27), the demands of the law (1 Timothy 1v8-11) and the description of salvation (1 Corinthians 6v9-11). So let’s keep marriage unchanged, pursue
orthodoxy as well as authenticity, and speak words of priceless value to a confused world.
God bless us all, Jonathan Frais Rector of St Mark’s, Little Common (Thank you Jonathan - you receive our LUSH prize for a most thoughtful letter, Editor)
the book of Common Prayer
Dear Editor, Ref Jan/Feb 2012 issue 99 The article “The Book of Common Prayer”
The opening paragraph “The book of Common Prayer is a bit like Marmite, you either love it or loath it”. This attention grabbing start to a most interesting article initially made me feel really angry. However, the initial reaction made me think and serve to rally this reader to put pen to paper.
This beloved book provided me with so much, that I cannot express my gratitude for being born and going to Church before the reforming zeal of the Church Establishment provided something else in its place. Leaflets without context of the church calendar, text resources and the range of services and worship, the prayers of palms, everything that is needed swept away. I am a silent mourner, sometimes stirred to anger. The reformers have served the people ill, or to put it bluntly: “Thrown out the baby with the bathwater” It has been ill done.
Yours sincerely, Virginia Kemp
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