ORDINATION MAY 30th

The Patriarch and Chief Apostle have received letters requesting the Ordination of eight Ordinands. Approval has been granted to the Archbishop and Presiding Prelate to move forward on the approved date. The candidates were vetted, interviewed and approved to take the step to the Priesthood. During the next six weeks, the candidates will undergo training and the successful candidates will move to the ordination level. We pray well for everyone involved and may Almighty God bless us.

AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.

   29/01/2019

     

AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
 

    • SOME say the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ is not mine,
    •       Insinuating as if I would shine
    • In name and fame by the worth of another,
    •       Like some made rich by robbing of their brother.
    • Or that so fond I am of being sire,
    •       I’ll father bastards; or, if need require,
    • I’ll tell a lie in print to get applause.
    •       I scorn it: John such dirt-heap never was,
    • Since God converted him. Let this suffice
    •       To show why I my ‘Pilgrim’ patronize.
    • It came from mine own heart, so to my head,
    •       And thence into my fingers trickled;
    • Then to my pen, from whence immediately
    •       On paper I did dribble it daintily.
    • Manner and matter, too, was all mine own,
    •       Nor was it unto any mortal known
    • Till I had done it; nor did any then
    •       By books, by wits, by tongues, or hand, or pen,
    • Add five words to it, or write half a line
    •       Thereof: the whole, and every whit is mine.
    • Also for THIS, thine eye is now upon,
    •       The matter in this manner came from none
    • But the same heart, and head, fingers, and pen,
    •       As did the other. Witness all good men;
    • For none in all the world, without a lie,
    •       Can say that this is mine, excepting I
    • I write not this of my ostentation,
    •       Nor ’cause I seek of men their commendation;
    • I do it to keep them from such surmise,
    •       As tempt them will my name to scandalize.
    • Witness my name, if anagram’d to thee,
          The letters make – ‘Nu hony in a B.’

 

Author: Godfrey Gregg