Last Sunday for the first time since I was ordained it was good to return to Briton Ferry to lead worship. I was glad it was in better circumstances than the closure of St Clements. Everyone seemed to be in good spirits it is just a shame there are not more people. Thought it may be the one Sunday as I was not in the cathedral that there would be no other clergy present. How wrong I was! We were joined by Fr Mike Gillingham a parish priest from Sheffield whose wife was from Briton Ferry, they were down for a few days on annual leave.
It was the most positive that I have felt on a Sunday for a long time and good to lead a community in prayer. I was also struck by the warmth of the community and the welcome that I recieved. It was good to see some of the work done on the Church and how the parish was developing. Hard to know what to preach on when you go back home so I opted for talking about how we all needed the humility of the tax collector in the Parable about the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. I had to hedge my bets because there were three options on the Lectionary that day. The rest of the week has just been playing catch up with all the things I have needed to do and some that I really should have done last week but didn't!
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