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Date: 03 March 2007 10:59:01
Last night, doing my best drowned rat impression by the time I arrived, I went to the local Women's World Day of Prayer service.
I have to say part of the reason I love these annual services is the way they tend to contain some quite hardcore content and it is all delivered in such a wonderfully dignified fashion by people who one suspects are very much part of the Jam and Jerusalem brigade, from the pronounciation and very sensible twin sets that abound amongst these ladies of a certain age.
I had to stop myself giggling too much when I had a real "Calander Girls" moment as the women introducing the address said, "now we will have a little talk from ..."
The content though, as I say is quite hardcore. This year the focus was on Paraguay and the content had been written by women of that country. The confession prayers contain the following, (which is both thought provoking, and representative of the level of radicalism involved in the content):
"We confess that we are all part of the situation in our country where a few have so much and so many have so little. We confess that we do not struggle for gender equality, equal opportunities in education and work, and for the rights of indigenous people"