My licence to minister half-time in the Grimsby Minster parish (originally 'for a year or until a new Vicar is appointed, whichever is the shorter', since extended to last eighteen months) comes to an end on Sunday, St Aidan's Day as it happens. I believe there will be cake and kind words after the 10.30 a.m. service. The new full-time Vicar will indeed come into post a few weeks later.
Meanwhile, my 40th anniversary of being ordained priest comes up less than a month later (on Michaelmas Day, Monday 29 September), and I've kindly been given the opportunity to mark that by presiding at the 12.30 daily said Eucharist in Lincoln Cathedral that day.
I'll probably preach about St Aidan's feeling that fresh mission preaching should not be too harsh or demanding at the former service, and (very briefly given the context) about Jacob's ladder being pitched on deeply compromised ground at the latter.
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