May 2017
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In My View By Very Revd Nicholas Henshall, Dean of Chelmsford MY favourite moment here at
setting up tables and brewing
prayer, simply enjoying the
were a blessing to each other.
tea for 'Welcome on
warmth.
Surely that's part of the point
Wednesday' - a pop-up cafĂŠ for
of the incarnation - God comes
marginalised and often
all that - and so much more!
to share our ordinary lives, the
homeless people.
You don't find medieval village
places we live and work, the
halls because the main body of
places we meet up with friends
the church WAS the village hall.
or do the washing up, the
And in one of the chapels at
Chelmsford Cathedral is
the back Dave, a local
Wednesday lunchtime.
Pentecostal, is leading four
A simple Eucharist going on
Church buildings really are for
places where we pray and play.
There was no sense of
But we forgot all that
hours of 24/7 prayer. There are
division between sacred and
around the main altar; a few
groups of people coming in and
secular - they both belonged
sometime in the 19th entury
meters away a small group
out, lighting a candle, saying a
together in the same place, and
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