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It was a strange new world after I was ordained. I
suddenly found people acknowledged me in the street, people
I didn’t even know. If I travelled on a train I got a
compartment to myself. Cars stopped for me on pedestrian
crossings. A conductor (we had them in those days) actually
helped me off a stationary bus – I was only 24!
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The
February edition of the Beacon Magazine is available
online for download. The file is saved in PDF format, giving
you the opportunity of printing it from your own computer.
This month's edition includes
the Christmas Tree Festival Thanks, Back to Basics Course,
more about Marriage Week
and information on a host of
upcoming events in Fakenham
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Following the offer of Pope Benedict XV1 to the Anglian
Church for full communion at first glance one can only
be delighted by this development. Some Bishops have been
very moved by this gesture and it looks like 400,000 people
will move over. From the perspective of an ordinary
clergyman in the middle of Norfolk, I have seen the
relationships ...
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As a Church we have started an appeal for Haiti as
many churches will be doing and people will be generous, but
after a few weeks the world moves, even some of the generous
benefactors will move, and governments will move on. After
such a violent and terrible earthquake I believe that as a
world we need to support Haiti which lives next to the
wealthiest nation the world has ever known...
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