Good News: Former CoE Church Hall Now “Goddess Temple”

RE: “We have those here in America too, only we call them Grace Cathedral, St. John the Divine, and the NatCat.”

Zinger of the month . . . maybe the quarter.

I’m jealous.

I admire your restraint, Griffith, leaving a great set-up like “handfastings” alone like that.

Well gods/goddesses of a feather pretty much flock together! A few years back I would have been shocked. Now I yawn and say, <i\>” So, what’s new?”</i>

THE GODDESS is alive in Glastonbury, visible for all to see in the shapes of the sacred landscape. She is soft as the rounded hills of Her body and sweet as the apple blossom that grows in Her orchards

Nice analogies.  My cat is as furry as the hair that grows on her tail.  My feet are as stinky as their foul oder.

Believe it or not, the Glastonbury Goddess Temple ordains women as priests!

BTW, I think I may have found the reason why KJS doesn’t like dioceses affiliating with the Southern Cone. On the temple website, where it describes ordination stuff:

Priestess of Avalon Training:
Three Spiral Email Correspondence Course

[Cavorting 301, Dressing with Flowers 311, Gluten-free Diet 315, etc]

This course is unsuitable for people living in the Southern Hemisphere as each Circle of teaching is attuned to the cycle of the seasons in the Northern Hemisphere.  

“HANDFASTING”  Is that where two druids (members of the CofE) hold hands and fast for a week?

I admire your restraint, Griffith, leaving a great set-up like “handfastings” alone like that.

Chris, I think there was a Seinfeld episode that covered this topic.

This would be what? A couple miles from Glastonbury Abbey?  Is this a real news item, or have they hired Dan Brown to write an Indiana Jones script, and this is the teaser?

I tried to take Cavorting 101 my freshman year, but my dad found out and made me take algebra.

Well, it so helpful for a ministry to have a physical plant; that’s something the other ministries lack and they do suffer for it.

the previous restrictions on the use of the Hall, owned by the Church of England and persisted even after the sale of the Hall. St. Ben’s Parish Council has agreed to allow use of the Hall “without let or hindrance”

Now, how is it that a parish council can void the rules of the church of England when selling a church to pagans, but had they sold it to another Anglican jurisdiction, it would have taken an act of Parliment?

Glastonbury has attracted the gullible, the batty and the seriously deranged back into its Catholic past; allegedly the site of a tree sprung from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea who apparently ended up there, the site of Camelot and the burial site of the Holy Grail which gave the Abbey of Glastonbury its wealth.

Nowadays there are a great many New Agers of varying shades from the crystal-gazing, corn dolly-making, pot-throwing linguine-knitters through to more overtly sinister forms of diabolism.  There is also a connection with the Glastonbury Rock Festival.

There is also a strong CofE presence and the Abbey ruins are run as a place of worship and the clergy tread into this area where the enemy is so active.  St Benedict’s appears to be one of a group of churches, one of which is nearby and which has traditional worship from the 1662 BCP to more modern worship and is presumably struggling a bit as is common in towns where there are several CofE churches.

I have no idea why the restriction was removed, possibly for a payment or perhaps under threat that there might be an application to Court to remove the restriction, but I really don’t know.

I do remember in the 70’s a famous actress’s missing son was found up on Glastonbury Tor.  He reckoned the ‘vibes were good’.

I do recall being moved by the fact that prayers are still offered every half-hour (if memory serves) at the altar site (or is it the crossing?) within the ruins of Glastonbury Cathedral.  On the other hand, I found the town pretty heavy going and filled with aging hippies and assorted whackos and shops hawking tacky new age and pagan geegaws.

evan miller,
Wow! Your post above had me thinking of Santa Cruz & Berkeley, CA! They are so stuck in the 60’s I hardly think they even know that we are actually in the 21st Century!

You DO mean BERZERKELEY, don’t you?

Yes Cennydd! I totally did mis-spell that didn’t I? My Bad!

I’m going to write a letter to see if I can get the raisin cake concession at Glastonbury.  It’s gotta be a great opportunity.

This is so sad.  St. Dunstan, a monk-bishop, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey and then Archbishop of Canterbury from 960-988. He used his monetary inheritance, royal influence, and considerable gifts to foster and encourage a monastic revival in England and reform the English church.
He was an artist, musician, and metalsmith.  St Dunstan cast bells for Canterbury Cathedral and gave instructions for their use.

Dear Heavenly Father, 
We cry out for a monastic revival and the reformation of the Church of England.  Raise up holy leaders, we pray.  Amen.

Dear Mr. Griffith,
You surely meant “spork”, not fork.
Jane, Edwin’s wife