Anglocatholic thinking

Keeping the main things the main things Sitting in my mud confessional in the interior of Guyana dealing with a brisk flow of penitents compared favourably with lonely hours in the confessional at my previous location at St Wilfrith, Moorends or in the parishes of St Luke, Holbrooks or St Giles, Horsted Keynes later in my ministry. What a privilege it seemed to spread my wings for a few years to the wider Anglican Communion and a Diocese of unquestionable Anglo-Catholic privilege with faithful keen to do the main thing in Christianity which is coming to God and doing business with him, here in a direct way hallowed by the Christian centuries. It was a special honour to run the seminary created as memorial to Archbishop Alan Knight, Bishop of Guyana from 1937 to 1979, who made his Diocese one of the great centres of  Catholicism in the Anglican Communion. My own service at the Alan Knight Training Centre (AKTC)  for indigenous clergy, rewarded by a Canonry, bore evident fruit not least