Sir, - Mr Collins's attempt to read from Fordyce's
Sermons after dinner with the Bennet family, in Pride and
Prejudice, was not well-received. Reading sermons seems to
have become an accepted practice in Anglican churches and
cathedrals.
In 75 years of being an Anglican, I have heard many sermons,
both moving and thought-provoking; the preacher did not use a
script that he or she read. Do priests today have to have scripts,
Kindles, or iPads to communicate with their congregations? If they
do, there must be some fault in their training. Reading a script is
not a sermon.
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