Better than the Da Vinci Code!
St. Matilda's is an amalgam of several churches and their aspirations. The names, places and times of actual people and
events have been disguised, and imaginary but potentially desirable others have been added. St. Matilda's is quite unlike
other imaginative reconstructions in the realm of church history such as the Da Vinci project which is based on
pure speculation, some thoroughly bad scholarship, and the more sordid kind of journalistic opportunism - or that is how it
seems to us! Read on and find how a traditional Church of England parish can be thoroughly up to date in its methods and its
contribution to a healthy and supportive local community and the world-wide church.
The information about the Reverend Doctor Edward Baty,his work, and that of the Guild of St. Raphael is
totally accurate, as is its base in those churches and enterprises in which he has been involved, a ministry stretching
back almost half-way through the twentieth century and still alive and fruitful today.
St. Matilda's is a tribute to the clergy, religious, and lay church members with whom it has been
his privilege to work throughout his life,
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Photographs
St. Matilda's belongs to the imagination and recollections of its author and no photographs of it are
to be found.
We are hugely grateful, therefore, to Alan Bostock of "PhotoEyes.biz" and to Canon Michael Hereward-Rothwell of
St. Mary's Church, Thorpe, Egham, Surrey, for permission to publish items from the excellent collection of photographs of
St. Mary's Church at Thorpe to be found at www.photoeyes.com.
St. Mary's is a vibrant, go ahead, parish with which St. Matilda's is honoured to be associated.
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