Many of us are getting used to "New Ways of being Church" and "Fresh Expressions" - after all Anglo-Catholics have been doing just that remarkably successfully since 1993 - too well according to one General Synod Member who used that as his justification for not giving us anything but the Code of Practice.
However, in other parts of this federation of loosely affiliated clergy bound together by the stipend the liturgy and practice of the Church is up for radical overhaul too. I am given to understand that in the Diocese of my birth, Baptism and Confirmation the annual Chrism Mass (no doubt under the euphemism of "A Renewal of Ministerial Commitment" so as to avoid the charge of exclusivity) has been transferred from Holy Thursday to June. I am sure that many of us await with baited breath for the excuse being given for this innovation.
The Chrism Mass is so bound up with Holy Week and the events that unfold in the Triduum Sacrum that one can scarcely believe that such things are true were it not for the fact that my source is impeccable. "Change and decay in all around I see...."
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