Next Saturday morning Christians from across Worcestershire and beyond shall again
assemble in the Cathedral. Along with Bishop John, Archbishop Bernard, the Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, and the Revd Alison Thackay, Regional Minister for
the Heart of England Baptist Association, they will be there to study the Scriptures –
using both Lectio Divina and the Ignatian method. In small groups they will learn from
and pray with Christians of differing traditions; they will eat together; and then they will
depart, refreshed in mind, body and spirit.
People at last year’s Big Bible Study reflected that it was ‘excellent’ and ‘well worthwhile’.
And long ago a wise monk noted gentle drops of water wearing away hard stone. ‘So
it is with the Word of God’, he thought. ‘The Word of God is soft and our heart hard;
but the person who often hears the Word of God opens his heart to the fear of God’.
Do come and study; and, even if you cannot be there, please remember in your prayers
those who shall come, that each may be changed by God’s gentle Word.
Details and bookings via bbs@worcestercathedral.org.uk or www.cofe-worcester.org.uk
Pray for all those taking part in this year’s Big Bible Study
Stourport Deanery – Rural Dean: Mark Turner; Lay Chair: Andrew Quinn
Diocese of Tamale (Ghana): Bishop Dr Jacob Ayeebo
Diocese of Liverpool: Bishop Paul Bayes with Suffragan Bishop Richard Blackburn
Diocese of Monmouth (Wales): Bishop Richard Pain
Diocese of Haderslev (Denmark): Bishop Marianne Christiansen
