GloucestershireKenneth WebbDecember 04, 2024Gloucester Cathedral, From the 2016 Archive, G 4Comment

Gloucestershire 5 ~ Gloucester Cathedral

GloucestershireKenneth WebbDecember 04, 2024Gloucester Cathedral, From the 2016 Archive, G 4Comment

Gloucestershire 5

Gloucester Cathedral

Reviewing work during the lockdown, I found this in the 2016 archive. How time flies. This is what I enjoy about archiving. The chance to walk down memory lane. I used to eschew that saying. Now I value it with each passing day, each new sunset, and each new sunrise.

Gloucester Cathedral

Sunday 13 November 2016

I WAS MOVED to attend the Service of Thanksgiving and Act of Commemoration at Gloucester Cathedral yesterday afternoon. The Cathedral seated over 1,700, comprising both the population and large contingents from all of our armed forces.

I was also greatly moved to briefly speak with the Venerable Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester, shortly after the Service.

A Gloucestershire man born and bred, I am thrilled that as a man of the shires, it so happens that my county's own Cathedral has appointed the first female diocesan bishop in the Church of England.

We move with the times.

Some, of course, are slower to do so.

But let us not be put off by those who, seeking to run with the hare and with the hounds, pontificate that it would be best to address the Bishop only by the first name, or diocesan bishop; anything, but Bishop Rachel of Gloucester.

These are very dangerous times that we live in.

Let us, therefore, stay abreast of current affairs, and most importantly, the constantly evolving Church.

The Church lives and breathes and moves with the times, and as the Spirit directs; not at the dictate of those still trudging the Luddite treadmill.

LIVERPOOL

First Written 13 November 2016 Last published 11 July 2022 as Gloucestershire 4

Kenneth Webb

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.