St Mary's Clock re-dedication

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Celebrating 500 years of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Launceston, the Bishop of St Germans, Rev Hugh Nelson, came to re-dedicate the church's recently refurbished clock

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00:30you think branding and logos is a new thing but uh not so

00:38if you can stand somewhere where you can see the clock then uh without being run over

00:42how we do are there others coming we're all good good well it seems entirely appropriate

01:01doesn't it that as we as we celebrate 500 years of life in the church we we give thanks for the

01:05gift of time god who is both present to us within time but is far beyond kind of tick tock time

01:16who is eternal and who is present to creation for eternity we try and capture god's eternity

01:25sometimes with clocks don't we but god is way bigger than that but we do need to know what

01:30the time is and this tells everyone in the town and i suspect in the villages beyond as well so

01:37let us pray lord you who live outside of time we give thanks for your gift of time to us

01:51we give thanks for the skill of those who build and restore clocks

01:56and we pray bless now this restored clock and bless the people of this town who look upon it

02:05to help them order their lives in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit

02:14amen

02:20well we consider that clock fully blessed and we will continue inside

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