Back again today at St German's for their Sunday Solemn Mass, Evensong and Benediction. It was good at last to announce the date of Fr Dean Atkins' induction as priest in charge, 23rd January. After Christmas I have two more Sundays there leading worship before he takes over, and then I'll be free to offer to do duties in different places. I've enjoyed the continuity of serving the same community, and would happily do the same somewhere else. However, there doesn't seem to be any taste among our wise and learned leaders to do any strategic planning for the deployment of supernumery ministers for an entire interregnum. This is normal practice in some provinces of the Anglican Communion, but not here in Britain. A case of 'not invented here'?
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