Liberating effects of lay preaching

Hurrah to Abigail Frymann Rouch for her article on lay preachers (“I wouldn’t call it preaching …”, 9 August). I have been an enclosed nun for 30 years and during the pandemic I had the marvellous and liberating experience of proclaiming the Gospel in our public chapel and sharing a “reflection” afterwards.

There were four of us who took it in turns one day a week. On the other days we experimented trying different liturgies when we would normally have had Mass. I looked forward to those Thursdays when I knew I would hear something deeply nourishing.

They “reflected” from a place where they had been chewing the cud of the Gospel. It was fabulous. The Church doesn’t realise what it has and what it is missing.

SR GABRIEL DAVISON
POOR CLARES OF ARUNDEL

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