![]() ![]() ![]() The Temple – a collection of sacred poems – was published after his death in 1633. George Herbert was a priest and poet born in 1593. Whilst the physical space and liturgical cycle of the church have not changed in six months, a certain feeling of well-known security has.īut, this week, a different kind of changing church has preoccupied me. The hushed hand-sanitising on arrival feels almost sacramental a reading in which Jesus ‘breathed on’ his disciples sends involuntary germophobic-shivers through the congregation and, with communion being only in one kind, the dry wafer of the body of Christ gets awfully stuck to the roof of your mouth. An absence of over six months and the new covid restrictions have combined to make each service equal parts bizarre and uplifting. I have recently started attended church services again for the first time since March and the UK’s lockdown. ![]()
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