Argus title : Clergy have a duty to safeguard our heritage
Just recently my elderly mother has been asking to go to church. It’s an unusual thing for her.
During my lifetime she has not been a churchgoer and, in fact, over the years has several times expressed an almost superstitious fear of prayer. It was as if she feared she would do damage if she attempted it.
However, her memory is much impaired and whatever the source of her concern, it now seems to have disappeared.
She remembers the comfort of going to church with her mother, long before I was born. She has happy memories of her husband, my father, who died after 59 years of marriage. She would like to go to church and think about him. Continue reading
