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| | Anglican Communion News Service |
 | | On All Saints' Day too, thirty three years ago, I was ordained a priest in the Church of God in the Chapel of New College, Oxford, and there is something in the deep providence of God that has brought me again on this feast to begin a new ministry as your bishop and pastor. |
 | | In the sermon preached at my priesting John Bowker, my former college chaplain, rightly commented that what was done that day did not depend on the worthiness of the candidate, nor on the adequacy of prayers but liturgy, but simply and solely on the grace of God. |
 | | I have taken words from the very end of the Acts of the Apostles, when Paul, a prisoner, comes to Rome, to the centre of worldly power, and he finds that the Christians who were there had word of his coming. |
| www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/acnsarchive/acns2750/acns2762.html (2021 words) |
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