{"id":937,"date":"2010-10-15T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2010\/10\/the-vicar-on-society-of-st-wilfrid-and-st-hilda\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T15:23:22","slug":"the-vicar-on-society-of-st-wilfrid-and-st-hilda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2010\/10\/the-vicar-on-society-of-st-wilfrid-and-st-hilda.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vicar on Society of St Wilfrid and St Hilda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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You know Simon, I\u2019m inclined to agree with you for once. I read in the Church Times about this new Society of St Wilfrid and St Hilda <\/a>and couldn\u2019t make heads or tails of it. Can\u2019t imagine what the point of it all is. They\u2019ve already got a group called Forward in Faith. What did you say? Rev Lav calls it Backward in Bigotry? Now now. We mustn\u2019t be unkind. What\u2019s that? A packet of beef curry crisps? What fun! I don\u2019t mind if I do. Yes please, and Ian, be a good chap will you and get me the other half of my lager shandy? There\u2019s a good fellow.<\/p>\n

Yes, Daphne explained the whole thing. Seems the Bishop of Chichester\u2019s a fellow called John Hind.\u00a0 Fr. Giles over at St Barnabas told me that the clergy in Chichester refer to the Bishop\u2019s Palace as \u201cHind Quarters\u201d Har har har. Fellow before him was called Kemp. Nicknamed \u2018Damp\u2019 by his clergy. Story goes that when he was a fellow at Exeter College he was dripping about\u2013rather an Eeyore sort of chap if you know what I mean. Anyway, the Dean said to the provost, \u201cWho\u2019s that new fellow? Kemp did you say? How did he get in here?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear Dean\u201d, said the provost, \u201cDamp gets in everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyway, this fellow Hind and his chums have always been rather high. We used to call them the gin and lace brigade at college. They were across town at St Richard\u2019s House. Bishop always made us get together with the blighters for supper once a term. It wasn\u2019t a happy affair believe you me. Chichester\u2019s always been high like that. Some call it South Coast religion\u2013all bells and smells and I\u2019m afraid some rather rum goings on down in Brighton, but never mind. We must think the best!<\/p>\n

Anyway, this Hind fellow and his chums have got together a new club. They\u2019re none too happy about having women bishops, but it seems they\u2019re even more unhappy about having a pope. Seems they\u2019re going to stay in the Church of England and fight for the Catholic tradition. Daphne says they should either become Catholics or stop complaining and just realize they\u2019re Protestants and get on with the job. Daff and I are having our disagreements of late. She\u2019s reading too much of that fellow Newman if you ask me, and she does insist on calling him Blessed John Henry Newman much to my annoyance, but on this one we see eye to eye.<\/p>\n

I asked Fr Giles about it, and he said he had no time for Hind and his new club. Of course Giles is awfully high himself, and when I asked him what he planned to do he went rather serious and changed the subject. Lavinia told me that Giles is getting up steam to announce that he and a good number of the people at St Barnabas are going to join this new Ordinariate thingamabob which the Pope has set up to steal sheep from the Church of England. Seems some of the Forward in Faith folks<\/a> are taking it all rather seriously.\u00a0\u00a0I say, if that happens there will be a right kerfuffle.<\/p>\n

I must admit, I\u2019m rather befuddled by it all. I can\u2019t see why these fellows can\u2019t get on with the job at hand. Why bother with all those extra candles and incense and statues of Mary and rosary beads and so forth? Never could understand it. Not manly really. Good old fashioned matins on a Sunday morning at ten, Holy Communion once a month for those who like it, tea in the afternoon with a nice Victoria sponge and then toddle off to Evensong at six. Not much harm in a life like that I say, and what\u2019s all the bother about women priests and bishops? I reckon they\u2019re doing a good job in their way. Haven\u2019t heard a good sermon out of one of them so far, but they\u2019re awfully good at parish visiting and jolly decent at organizing the Sunday School and the Church fete and that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

A nightcap? Thank you very much Simon, but I think I\u2019d better not. Better toddle off home and let out the cat. Cheerio!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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