The Shepherd, September 2007
BUILDING PROGRESS
TO HELP our contractors schedule their work, we have moved into the workrooms of the new house (the office, bookbindery, incense room, and candle making room) and so at the moment are, rather inconveniently, living between the two buildings. Happily H. W. Fisher and Son have found a competent man to re-do the upstairs floor after the devastation caused by the bodgers. He has done a magnificent job. On 5th September, the gold Cross was erected on the centre turret of the house under the supervision of the architect, Irina Aldersley. There are, naturally, innumerable things to be sorted out and complete, but the work on the New Monastic House is now very near completion, and we hope that on the refurbishment of the Old Mortuary will begin soon.
BUILDING FUND
AT THE TIME of preparing this issue for publication, our Building Fund total stands at £627,319.84, or approximately 96.51% of our target figure. We now have to turn our attention to raising the money necessary to complete the landscaping around the new house, and for the re-roofing of Saint Edward’s Church. We would have like the re-roofing to have been the first thing on ur schedule, as it is God’s house, but because of planning constraints this proved impossible. The wet Summer that we have just experienced has demonstrated just how necessary this third phase of the whole project is, and we ask you to continuing giving generously so that we might complete it.
DISRUPTION!
AS A CONSEQUENCE of our partial move into the new accommodation, our phone service was disconnected for several days. When at last the line was connected, it was faulty, and it was twelve days before the phone line was up and running properly. Because of the move, we had lost our broadband connection too, and so had to dial up access to the internet and to receive emails. This often failed because of the faulty phone line. We apologise if any messages were lost or went unanswered during this period, and for any other inconveniences our parishioners and correspondents during this transitional period. It may continue!
PRACTICAL TIP
REMEMBER to say your morning and evening prayers every day; if you are short of time, at the very least say some of them. Teach your children from the earliest days to do the same, praing with them and guiding them.
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