St David's Day

St David's Day Walk from St Non's through St Davids                                                                                                                                            Source: Twitter

Yesterday was St David's Day. The Tweetosphere was full of tweets about the patron saint of Wales but the 'little things' St David spoke of were not aired, just the phrase.

David's last words to his followers were in a sermon on the Sunday prior to his death: "Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us." (Wikipedia)

The 'little things' referred to, keeping the faith and your creed, walking in the path that our fathers have trod before us are omitted, probably because they are precisely the things that the bishops of the Church in Wales have ceased to observe.

The path walked from St Non's through the city of St Davids on St David's Day, pictured above, shows just one clergyman among a group of women clergy who now control St Davids Cathedral which has become more of a tourist attraction than a place of pilgrimage.

Preaching to politicians at Cardiff’s St David’s Day National Service at St John the Baptist Church on Sunday the Archbishop of Wales urged politicians to 'model St David'. Perhaps with tongue in cheek he said: David and his monks, whether doing the little things or the larger ones, were focussed and concentrating servants of God and God’s kingdom;  people who, as Jesus demanded, built their lives on the rock of his teaching, absorbed it, lived it out and stood firm and strong in times of testing."

The rock has crumbled in Wales.

When tested the bishops have not keep the faith or walked the path our fathers trod before us. They have conformed to this world pursuing 'inclusive' policies, not the faith of our fathers and creed.