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 A few other things I have written:   On Intentional Interim Ministry in the UK, hosted by the Interim Ministry Network 'Complex Changes:  Interim Ministry in the Church of England' on the Interim Ministry Network Library (2017) - MA dissertation Contributions to the  Interim Ministry Source Book (2021) On my experience of the Eucharist during the pandemic 'The Last Supper and the feeding of the five thousand' Article published in Praxis:  News of Worship (Autumn 2021, Issue 71) - available separately on this blog here (with thanks to www.praxisworship.org.uk )  This article has also been referenced in Grove Booklet W251 Holy Communion at a Distance by Ian Tarrant (Dean of Gibraltar) available for a small charge from Grove's website On my experience of illness and convalescence A Story of Convalescence - (2022 ongoing)  

First published in Praxis : News of Worship, Volume 71 Autumn 2021 www.praxisworship.org.uk   As a parish priest who moved post in summer 2020 my experience of the Eucharist during the pandemic has varied enormously. There has been a movement between the private and the public, which has echoes for me of the difference between the last supper and the feeding of the 5,000. The last supper in that upper room, prepared for in advance, in private, where everybody’s name is known. The feeding of the 5,000 in public, a bit haphazard, with crowds that really no one can number. What happened My first lockdown experience of the sacrament was each Sunday watching an on-screen Eucharist from St Alban’s Abbey with my congregation at Holy Innocents, Kingsbury in the suburbs of North West London. Although it was not our own cathedral I chose St Alban’s as it was nearby and what they provided (a livestream of a sung Eucharist at 10am) fit perfectly with our usual pattern. We joined togeth