MANY OF MY READERS WILL HAVE been present earlier today at the Eucharist Service for Sunday Trinity 11, at which, like myself, they may have noticed a sort of symmetry between today's Responsorial Psalm 34, and the day's second reading, from Ephesians 5, a Letter from St Paul, and events taking place in modern British politics involving Mr Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (above), a man who wishes to lead the Labour Party and Britain to a "New Jerusalem", and Lord John Buttifant Sewel (below), recently filmed snorting cocaine off the breast of a prostitute while wearing her bra and prior to that a Labour minister.
MAKING THIS LINK MORE OBVIOUS was the return of Mr Gordon Brown, formerly of this parish, as they sometimes say, who felt it his duty to advise members of the Labour Party on the thorny issue of whom they should choose as their future leader.
BROWN WAS AT HIS IMAGINATIVE BEST, with his speech suggesting he had also been at church this morning, as he stated that "our hearts can be broken" if Labour was not in power and was unable to do anything to change the world. Brown was relatively clear in his message, without actually venturing Corbyn's name. Indeed, when he stated that the party should be careful not to choose someone "unelectable" I detected some confusion among his no doubt carefully chosen audience: might he be referring to himself? We shall never know.
MEANWHILE, IN HIS LETTER to the Ephesians, St Paul, ever full of advice and in this aspect so similar to Gordon Brown, told us about the ways of the Lord: "be careful how you live", "do not be foolish" and "do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery" are certainly wise pieces of counsel that Brown might well have imparted to his former cabinet colleague Lord Sewel, whom I imagine to be rather heartbroken himself at the moment, now that he can no longer walk the way of a Lord.
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