Tag: Clergy retirement
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Being in place until the door opens and the path appears
Being in place until the door opens and the path appears By The Ven. Valerie Hoare My husband Doug and I started putting intentional plans in place for our retirement at least five years before the actual predicted date, but it became ‘real’ on my 69th birthday in July last year. One of our children…
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Blessings from a nine-month long conversation
By The Ven. Michael Faragher: In 2019, I was approached to take part in a clergy professional supervision pilot program, organised by the Parishes and other Mission Agencies Commission. Initially, I was reluctant – the 60-hour week of caring for my parish, Archdeacon duties and somehow fitting in time for my family all weighed against…
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A New Lease of Life? Anglican Clergy Reflect on Retirement
By Bishop Bill Ray: “One of these [long retired] priests had already been serving his Tractarian parish for over fifty years. He smiled that he was already over seventy when the retirement legislation came into force, so clearly that was irrelevant for him” (p.1). This was the reaction of one priest when the Church of…