Touching Cloth: Confessions and Communions of a Young Priest Butler-Gallie Fergus
Touching Cloth: Confessions and Communions of a Young Priest Butler-Gallie Fergus A laugh-out-loud memoir of becoming a 21st-century priest, Touching Cloth is also a love letter to the Prayer Book,…
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Touching Cloth: Confessions and Communions of a Young Priest Butler-Gallie Fergus
A laugh-out-loud memoir of becoming a 21st-century priest, Touching Cloth is also a love letter to the Prayer Book, Liverpool, lager, funerals, homemade lemon curd, and, above all, to what the Church of England can be at its best.The very word 'reverend' inspires solemnity. Isn't it?Fergus Butler-Gallie reveals what it's like to become a priest in the twenty-first century. To be a priest is to dedicate one's life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation.
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