Not wanting to anticlerical in my previous comment about blessings it was just an observation from the pew so to speak. If a punter on the pew can make such an observation it might be time for some members of the Anglican clergy to take a long, hard look at themselves and see how other people see them. By that I do not mean those of us who attend churches but rather the vast majority of people who never set foot inside a church.
I am prompeted to this action by the comments in the Church Times about education. To which I wish to answer....It is we the common, poorly paid, overworked and undervalued teachers who struggle daily with apathetic pupils who should be given some credit when our charges gain a few GCSEs. Never once in that rag of the middle aged, pew warming, chattering classes is there a mention of how hard teachers work in schools. It is high time the clergy in the Church of England gave some credit to teachers in Anglican schools. We are not some sort of uneducated laity to be filled every Sunday by their (for the most part) dull words. We all have at least one university degree and reach every day numbers of people most clergy can only dream of reaching.Could it be that the clerics need to take a lesson from us in this respect?
So come on you vicars...give the teachers some credit for the success of CofE schools. One day we might not be here and then where will you be? Tending to your flocks of 50 Polo munching grannies in twin sets and dreaming of a youth club of rising acolytes for your high altar!
