From the vicar - November 2013
Our God is the god
of all humans,
the God of heaven
and earth,
the God of sea and
rivers,
the God of sun and
moon,
the God of all the
heavenly bodies,
the God of the lofty
mountains,
the God of the lowly valleys.
God inspires all
things,
gives life to all
things,
stands above all
things,
and stands beneath
all things.
God has a Son who is
co-eternal with himself;
and similar in all
respects to himself;
and neither is the
Son younger than the Father,
nor is the Father
older than the son;
and the holy Spirit
breathes in them.
And the Father and
the Son and the holy spirit are inseparable. Amen.
Trinitarian Creed of Tirechan,
a 7th Century Irish Bishop and scholar
This 7th
Century Creed reminds us of all that we believe as Christians, whatever our
particular religious tradition. It is a timely reminder that we are all called
to work ecumenically so that we can all learn how to be different and yet
together in sacred things, “communion in sacris”.
I have included a
paper in this Newsletter which provides a background of how we have arrived at
where we are on the Ecumenical Scene – the first of two papers.
Please read the
paper carefully and prayerfully as an introduction to the proposals set out in
the second paper which I will include in the next Newsletter.
Michael
