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In a quiet moment at the B Division headquarters of the Oxfordshire Fire Service in Rewley Road, Oxford, the Revd Bob Penman chats to Station Officer Mick Pilcher (right) and Fire fighter Ian McFadyen. Bob is co-ordinator of the new Oxfordshire Fire Brigade Chaplaincy. Chaplains have been recruited for Oxford, Banbury and lKidlington fire stations and are being sought for Didcot and Abingdon. Bob is also priest-in-charge of Besselsleigh and a former chapDOES CHRISTIANITY WORK? SEE PAGE 10 lain to the Parachute Regiment in which Ian McFadyen also served.
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The Diocese of Oxford is preparing for the biggest shake-up in its worship since the arrival of the Alternative Service Book (ASB) in 1980. Common Worship, the collected name for a range of new services including Holy Communion, Baptism and Confirmation, will become the norm from 1 January 2001. For most churches it will mean the end of cumbersome service books. Eighty per cent of churches are expected to use the new core material to put together their own service booklets. The new services bring together the familiar and the new. The Communion service remains much the same. Order One retains the shape of ASB Rite A and Order Two that of the Prayer Book version but each has a modern or traditional language option. However, the new liturgy allows for more flexibility. Common Worship recognises that, whilst we are one Church, local needs and situations differ, says the Bishop of Reading, chairman of the Diocesan Liturgical Committee. It is this flexibility which
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