The Village Shepherd
The Suffering Servant
Sermon
Back in the heady days when women had just been ordained and I was a new curate, I was in the vestry preparing to preside at my very first 8.00am communion service. The congregation was relatively small and relatively elderly, and all of them were very traditional in their views, so it was not an easy prospect. I wondered how many would walk out in protest at having a woman at the altar.