July 2017
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I S T O R I E S I A R E A U P D AT E S I E V E N T S N E A R Y O U
In My View By Rt Revd John Wraw, Bishop of Bradwell THE sight must have been truly awesome, mysterious, terrifying
It would happen just once a
charismatic worship or the
The Temple marked a dim
year, a strange enigmatic figure
challenge and assurance rooted
reflection of heaven on earth –
taking form in the darkness of
in an evangelical gathering
the ordered lines, the carefully
that most holy of places
around the Scriptures.
delineated hierarchy of
forbidden to everyone on pain of death. The picture is very different
None of those experiences is
courtyards leading the
exclusive to any one tradition,
worshipper from themselves to
but none either captures the
an encounter with the living God.
even as the High Priest
from the worship we
awe, the majesty of the temple
emerged from the Holy of
experience Sunday by Sunday
worship which we just glimpse
Holies, the very heart of the
whether the beauty of a Roman
through the pages of the Old
seen as us – frail, anxious,
temple complex.
Catholic mass, the intimacy in
Testament.
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