Listen today to the voices of Ruth and Naomi, as imagined by Melanie and Helen.

Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! 

Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; 

your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 

Where you die, I will die—there will I be buried. 

May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, 

if even death parts me from you! 

(Ruth 1.1-17) 

 Rev Dr Melanie Harrington is a third year curate in the Diocese of Lichfield, Rev Helen Lynch is Assistant Curate in Great Yarmouth.