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1st Sunday in the month 4pm Tea Time Church 2nd Sunday in the month 10.30am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday in the month Minsterley Praise with Minsterley Methodists ChurchThis service is hosted alternate months and start times10am at Minsterley Methodist Church (Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec)10.30am at Holly Trinity Minsterley (Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept & Nov)4th Sunday in the month 10.30am Holy Communion5th Sunday in the month 10.30am Group Communion Service around the churches of our Benefice
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Dear FriendsOne of the many qualities that I appreciated about the already much-lamented Revd Fran was her ability to correct me gently, allowing me to understand that she thought I’d got something wrong (generally she was right) without my feeling put down or undermined. I was reminded of this on holiday when kneeling at the communion rail in Aberdovey and being offered the chalice by the communion assistant, who I suspect was the churchwarden, with the words “the body of Christ.” I thought at first that he had just misspoken but overheard him using the same words as he went along the line. I did for a moment wonder whether the theology of the Church in Wales was somehow different from our own but decided that the wine is recognized as the blood of Christ universally. How long had he been doing this and why had no one ever put him right were questions I asked myself.But then, when the service finished and I spoke briefly to him, I too couldn’t find the right words to interrogate him without sounding harshly critical and I bottled it, saying nothing. St Paul calls it “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4.15). It’s easy to do one or other of those, but nowhere near so easy to do both. Greg
