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Worship

Please Note: There are no weekday services between April 21st and 25th, and no 8 am Mass or Evening Service on Sunday April 27th. Sunday 8.00am Said MassA spoken, modern language service (BCP once a...

  • 20 April 2025

Easter Vigil

The very first time Do you remember the first time? Whatever it is that is important to you, whatever it was that changed your life, even if you didn’t realise it at the time. The...

  • 19 April 2025

Good Friday

Response and responsibility We don’t even know we’re doing it. No we really don’t know we’re doing it. We are blithely unaware, wholly insensible, utterly oblivious. Because that’s the way we see the world, it’s...

  • 13 April 2025

Palm Sunday

Speaking truth to power Just keep looking straight ahead.  Try to blend in. Keep quiet. Fit in. They’ll always smell fear, they’ll always jump on weakness, always punish deviance. Don’t make any demands. Don’t dream...

  • 6 April 2025

Lent 5

We will not turn away Reticules. Beadles. Bottle and rag shops. Spencer jackets. Workhouses. Pints of porter. Bodices, bonnets, Broughams, chariots, ostlers. No work of fiction has featured the forgoing in a hundred years or...

  • 24 March 2025

Lent 3

To forgive is divine Although often dismissed as an urban legend, it is in fact true the Inuit dialect spoken in the Nunavik region does indeed have 53 different words for ‘snow’  (I suspect though...

  • 17 March 2025

Lent 2

It can’t be that simple I’ve had some strange Christmas gifts during the twenty years of my ministry: my first Christmas as a curate saw me gifted a CD of morris dance music, set of...

  • 10 March 2025

Lent 1

How did that get there? Gardens, gardens… A comfort and obsession in the long years of retirement, a pain in the back of the house in earlier years. Gardens; never dull, always changing, even if...

  • 25 February 2025

2 before Lent

What are you saying? Being a school governor is a common occupational hazard for the clergy- it’s always in the risk assessment for any particular parish- but that is one peril of a post that...

  • 17 February 2025

3 Before Lent

It ends with love Saint Paul, second only to Jesus himself, is without doubt the person who most moulded and shaped the Christian faith to be what it is today. Paul’s are the earliest of...

  • 9 February 2025

4 before Lent

The real you Contrary to what all the stereotypes might lead you to believe, I am not a fan of musical theatre.I know I’m letting the side down but there is something that just fails...