Clerical Duties Quotes

Bishops and priests should live according to the canons and should teach others to do likewise

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

Our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach less.

It does not befit a bishop or a presbyter to go into the affairs of the people's government, but to be always engaged in the affairs of the Church

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011.

I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn't good at keeping up with the paperwork.