Farewells and thank you's at St Martin's

Last Sunday, St Martin-in-the-Fields said thank you to Catherine Duce and I, before Catherine starts her maternity leave and I move to become Team Rector in Wickford and Runwell. All the speeches are available to read online, click here for mine and here for Catherine's.

I began my speech by saying: "Tell about a time you had a really good experience of church. Tell about a time you made a difference to the wider church. Tell about a time you felt your gifts and ideas were understood and appreciated. Tell about the time you spent seven years at St Martin-in-the-Fields."

Below is a photo with my leaving gifts, two prints by artist Kelly Latimore. Kelly Latimore wants Iconography to be a creative process, meditation, and practice that brings about new self knowledge for the viewer and himself. He asks the question, "Who are the saints that are among us here and now?"

He writes: "I feel the need for new images. In some icons I wish to embrace the traditional forms and image but for many icons the image needs re-shaping, re-imagining, and re-wondering.There are icons here that people may find theologically unsound and wrong, or for others, helpful and inspiring. I think both reactions are important. My hope is that these icons do what all art can potentially do, which is, to create more dialogue."








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St Martin-in-the-Fields - Morning Song.