There should have been a new Quinquennium of the General Synod beginning this week. We should have been gathering in the Abbey cloisters, being marshaled into our diocesan groups like competitors parading at the beginning of the Olympic Games. There would have been a splendid Eucharist in the Abbey and then Her Majesty would have joined us in the Synod Chamber to address us at the beginning of our work (it’s a bit like the Opening of Parliament with less ermine). We would have been sat there in our Sunday best, the clergy in convocation dress, the laity, in the main, dressed up, with a smattering of hats (how we miss Christina Baxter’s array of millinery).
Instead the elections to Synod were delayed, we have all been kept on for another year as this pandemic disrupts every aspect of life, and we are meeting online rather than in person.
So today begins a Group of Sessions the agenda of which is made up of items of business that have to be dealt with – the budget, IICSA, cathedrals, LLF – to name but a few.
So I will do my best to keep you up todate with what goes on. Join us online if you can, if not pray for us plaese.
Almighty God, you have given your Holy Spirit to the Church to lead us into all truth: bless with the Spirit’s grace and presence the members of the General Synod; keep them steadfast in faith and united in love, that they may manifest your glory and prepare the way of your kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Andrew Nunn's reflections from General Synod 
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