Newsletter 23 August 2020

August 21, 2020 in Newsletters

Chorister crisis is pressing, say musicians
THE recruitment and retention of choristers is a crisis that must be addressed if the voluntary choral tradition is to remain an essential and beloved part of the liturgy, clergy and musicians from some of the country’s largest parish churches war...
17th Sunday after Trinity
FOR the third time, Jesus draws on the metaphor of the vineyard, after the parables of the labourers (Matthew 20.1-16) and the two sons asked to work in the vineyard by their father (Matthew 21.28-32). This story leaves the chief priests and the P...
Second wave will be harder, Archbishops warn
DIVISIONS are deeper now — on the brink of a second wave of coronavirus infections — than they were six months ago when the nation first went into lockdown, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have warned in a joint letter to all bishops on Wed...
Weddings shrink again as new Covid rules kick in
WEDDINGS in England are to be limited to a maximum of 15 people, down from 30, under new coronavirus restrictions announced by the Prime Minster on Tuesday. The new rule, which will come in on Monday 28 September, applies to both the wedding cerem...