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Tales of a Country Parish: From the Vicar of Savernake Forest

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Many of us, during the darkest days of the pandemic when churches were locked, clung to a regular online holy event to guide us through the grimness.

We weren’t just watching the streamed Sunday service from the local vicarage’s kitchen. Thousands tuned in to the Dean of Canterbury, live-streaming Morning Prayer from his garden while his cat disappeared into the skirts of his cassock.

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