One of my colleagues here in Edinburgh Diocese mused in a public forum the other day about whether she should abandon her Parson's Pocketbook (that comforting symbol of God With Us when carried in the hand of a clergyman/woman on the rounds of the hospital or the neighbourhood - for a Filofax (probably a black one looking like the monolith in the opening of 2001 A Space Odyssey).
I have no doubt that there are even other clergy eager for preferment with eyes darting back and forth who've switched to something electronic, allowing them not only to manage their contacts and arrive at appointments in a timely manner but to profit from those long walks along hospital corridors by finally achieving the status of Jedi Knight of Orath-Ping in world seven with extra ammunition for their Circadian Orc Slayer.
It never ends, does it? All this innovation!
Real priests carry paper! No pasaran!
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Last week I was at the overnight M&M Committee meeting and at the end of it we had to choose dates for the coming year. I opened my PP and found the month in question. and then we waited and waited until the men scrolled through their little electronic diaries... and waited. Got that one and then next month. I flicked through 4 pages and sat back and waited and waited. All in all it took us about 30 minutes to put in 8 dates. I'm sticking to paper, have no fear.
And my filofax is purple, not black.
You should let whoever it was know that you can now get the PP in filofax form, only avaible in one size from what I know, but availble never the less. Also there is a Lectionary if they use that bit of the PP!
I tried the electronic gizmo for two months before abandoning it in disgust and going back to my Filofax. The Blessed Alistair Haggart insisted we all buy a Filofax on leaving Theological College, and it's served me well for 30 years!
actually in my 21 years of ministry if I do not know what I'm doing over the next few months, then I know I'm overworked.
it's time to come off those committees my friends!
Alison
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