archbishop sentamu's inauguration

There are some really good accounts of yesterday's proceedings in York. I'm too busy to blog it till later, as I now have to make up for taking the whole day off to be there...

but a lovely insider's view from Ruth Gledhill , and my favourite, much less churchy account in three posts (start here, work down the page) from one of my favourite blogs (favourite because the blogger posts lovely pics of God's own country). Good pictures at BBC North Yorkshire, including this one entitled "the Archbishop takes some time out to talk to a woman in the street"
which is my favourite not because it's the best photo, but because it sums up what I know of the Archibishop - never dazzled by the important people; never too busy for the ordinary people.

If you weren't there, and didn't watch the telly either, you might like to read the Archbishop's excellent inauguration sermon. It reminded me of all the reasons I got ordained (on the instructions of Sentamu himself, when he was my Vicar in days of yore), and rekindled my own sense of vocation with a poignancy that almost reduced me to tears. Happy ones, I'm glad to say.   

Comments

[Chris T.]

That sermon is incredible. I hope folks on my side of the Pond start paying attention to what this man has to say, too. I had the same feelings reading ++Sentamu's sermon as I did reading Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited.

[Neale Adams]

What did England do to deserve now two such brilliant archbishops? You are graced.