Bishop Andrew Watson was a great friend of our parish. A regular visitor and in his final days, following his diagnosis of terminal cancer, he was still sending video and text messages of support to our growing pub ministry.
Now the Bible Reading Fellowship have published Bishop Andrew’s final written work.
In the weeks before his death, Bishop Andrew collated a decade’s worth of his Chrism sermons at Guildford Cathedral, including “four last songs”; his final writings after receiving his terminal cancer diagnosis.
The deeply personal and profound collection, entitled Maundy: Leadership and identity in life and death, includes a foreword from the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, and, of course, an introduction from Bishop Andrew in which he shared that working on this project helped to focus his mind on “some of the key attributes of what it means to be a Christian disciple and minister through testing times.”
As the BRF’s acting CEO Jules Morgan writes in her introduction: “We do so with gratitude, affection, and a deep sense of honour because this is not simply a book we have chosen to publish, but one that Andrew himself asked us to bring into being in the closing weeks of his life.”
With a touching Foreword by Stephen Cottrell, archbishop of York, it also comprises the sermon Andrew preached at his installation as bishop of Guildford.
More information can be found on BRF Resources website.
Now the Bible Reading Fellowship have published Bishop Andrew’s final written work.
In the weeks before his death, Bishop Andrew collated a decade’s worth of his Chrism sermons at Guildford Cathedral, including “four last songs”; his final writings after receiving his terminal cancer diagnosis.
The deeply personal and profound collection, entitled Maundy: Leadership and identity in life and death, includes a foreword from the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, and, of course, an introduction from Bishop Andrew in which he shared that working on this project helped to focus his mind on “some of the key attributes of what it means to be a Christian disciple and minister through testing times.”
As the BRF’s acting CEO Jules Morgan writes in her introduction: “We do so with gratitude, affection, and a deep sense of honour because this is not simply a book we have chosen to publish, but one that Andrew himself asked us to bring into being in the closing weeks of his life.”
With a touching Foreword by Stephen Cottrell, archbishop of York, it also comprises the sermon Andrew preached at his installation as bishop of Guildford.
More information can be found on BRF Resources website.