June 2015
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Bishop’s View By Rt Revd Roger Morris, Bishop of Colchester AMONG the many exciting things about coming to the Diocese of Chelmsford has been the link that we have with the great spiritual writer Evelyn Underhill. Evelyn was a frequent visitor to Pleshey where she conducted many retreats during the 1920s and 1930s. She said that the house ‘seems soaked in love and prayer’. Next year marks the 75th anniversary of Evelyn Underhill’s death and that should give us further incentive to revisit the teachings of the one person who, according to Archbishop Michael Ramsey, ‘did more than anyone else to keep the spiritual life alive in Anglicanism’ during the inter-war years. Evelyn said that ‘you don't have to be peculiar to find God, but you do have to make a willed commitment to make Him the centre of your life, all aspects of it!’ She suggested that we should set aside a specific time, preferably in the morning, for adoration, spiritual reading, and meditation. ‘Old fashioned practices,’ she said, ‘but it's the only way!’ She said that so many people don't understand that this regime of prayer is the ‘spiritual food that sustains and nourishes’. She offered this advice to a friend: "Try to arrange things so that you can have a CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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