Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 5 – Hope
Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it casts the shadows of our burden behind us.
Author: Andrew The Dotty Rev
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 4 – Mending the Rents
As nature with her old mosses and her new spring foliage hides the ruins which man has made, and gives to the fallen tower and broken cloister a beauty scarcely less than that which belonged to them in their prime so human love may be at work too,
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 3 – Responsibility
‘Study to be quiet and mind your own business,’
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 2 – The Doors of Light
Let us care for the weak-minded and insane, show compassion to the wretched, and hold sacred the suffering of humanity.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 1 – Religion in our Occupations
Christ risen from the dead, raises all this common work belonging to the order of nature, up to the level of the joy of Grace.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 30 – God’s Work
There was a time when it was usual to draw a sharp line between religious and worldly things. That time has happily gone by. We all acknowledge more or less that all life is one.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 29 – Vocation
All the honest, unselfish work of the world is God’s work.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 28 – One Thing I of the Lord Desire
So wash Thou me, without, within,
Or purge by fire, if that must be,
No matter how, if only sin
Die out in me.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 27 – Righteousness – A Direction
No longer law, but love, no longer the mere keeping from a certain list of forbidden things, but active forward-looking service.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 26 – Righteousness – A Direction
For that is the only real question – not just where are you – but, which way are you facing and living?
