[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Mahoney, W. Michael]

I am still here also and after reading Simon's message, I am thoroughly
exhausted.

M

Dictated on Mike'S Cell


On Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 12:13 PM Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

> I guess most of us are still here. Life in retirement is busy though.
>
> Current agenda...
>
> Just finishing compilation of my annual calendar for the Church of
> England, used by a few thousand clergy and parishes. At least 25 years
> since I first did this.
>
> Trying to read through documents of the long-listed candidates to be the
> next Bishop of Ely. For each candidate there are some five documents to
> plough through and to give a preliminary assessment and justification of
> whether they should be shortlisted. The 14 members of the selection
> panel (the Crown Nominations Commission) meet next week to decide on the
> shortlist. Two days of interviews and decision-making will follow in
> November.
>
> Bishop's Council meeting tomorrow night -- papers still to be read in
> preparation.
>
> The Saturday after next (4 October) I will be admitted and licensed as a
> Lay Reader (or Licensed Lay Minister). The good news there is that the
> two years of training are completed!
>
> The Saturday after that is diocesan synod -- of which I am the lay
> chair. Nothing much on the agenda (ha ha), just budget and such like.
> And a debate on where the Church of England goes on same-sex
> relationships. And my co-chair, the clergy chair, who would normally
> share the role with me, is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, so I
> might be on my own.
>
> I also have a two-day meeting of the Church of England Liturgical
> Commission at the end of October.
>
> And then there's the important stuff like helping to look after our two
> young granddaughters. And helping deal with my two elderly
> parents-in-law who live a couple of hundred miles away: my mother-in-law
> is suffering from dementia, and my father-in-law is finding it harder
> and harder to cope.
>
> And that's just the highlights from my diary!
>
> simon
>
> On 23/09/2025 21.48, Kate Conant wrote:
> > Has the list died? I haven't received anything since March. Of course, I
> > hadn't written anything either.
>
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
>
>