[Magdalen] Down-hearted

[Marion Thompson]

One problem is that even if we filled the pews every Sunday with our 
neighbours we would not be better off financially for these are the same 
people who desperately need and use the food bank and we minister to 
them.    Sadly, it is all about pie charts and graphs and trends and 
money and, other than being happy to bathe in the glow of the 
'successful' Food Bank, the Diocese doesn't give a s--t about St. 
Peter's and the faithful who have kept it going despite the 
often-breathtaking insensitivity of the bishop.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 8/17/2015 7:14 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> On 17/08/2015 22:20, ME Michaud wrote:
>> I am remembering a friend who was sent as interim to a
>> struggling parish with the Bishop's words ringing in his
>> ears:
>>
>> "Fix it or kill it."
>
> I have gone to parishes which were thought to have no hope but have 
> worked with the people and the tradition I found there to try to work 
> out a viable future.  Yes, there were difficulties and conflict but 
> they found a future which respected their past.  "Fix it" should never 
> mean "make it something that denies its essence".
>
> Roger
>