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For All Saints’ tide, Catherine Pepinster celebrates holiness with Anglican roots

NEAR the top of Orrest Head, overlooking Windermere, there is an old gateway.

Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  3 minute read  •  Article content These have been discouraging times; times of great uncertainty and stress, anxiety and fear, trial and tragedy. In many ways we’ve seen God at work, we’ve seen good things. Yet we wrestle at times because it can also seem so often that God is silent or distant when times are tough. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. But, we are designed by God to need encouragement. We are designed to rely on His ministry in our lives and our ministry in the lives of one another. And it takes us dra...

Deep in Thy darksome bed;  All still and cold beneath yon dreary stone  Thy sacred form is gone;  Around those lips where power and mercy hung,  The dews of deaths have clung;  The dull earth o’er Thee, and Thy foes around,  Thou sleep’st a silent corse, in funeral fetters wound. Sleep’st Thou indeed? or is Thy spirit fled,  At large among the dead?  Whether in Eden bowers Thy welcome voice  Wake Abraham to rejoice,  The thronging band of souls;  That, as Thy blood won earth, Thine agony  Might set the shadowy realm from sin and sorrow free.

Submitting... A Vanity Fair portrait of Bishop Alexander from 1895 At Oxford he was profoundly influenced by the ‘Oxford Movement’ (which sought the return of the Church of England to pre-Reformation beliefs and liturgical practice) and the sermons of John Henry Newman. When in 1845 Newman left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University and was received into the Roman Catholic Church, Alexander seriously considered following him to the extent that he took his name off the college books and wrote to his mother stating his intention of converting and then left Oxford....