Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today it’s the ancient plainchant “Advent Prose” from Carol P and Tom, and “God’s Phone Number”, read by Carol O: St Margaret’s Church Prestwich holds CCLI licences CCL 79250, MRL 775231 and 466111 for music streaming and One Licence … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 01
QR codes are now commonplace, on posters, leaflets, TV screens, and on our weekly service sheets. QR codes are clever bits of technology – a bit like bar codes – that link the real world with the online world. Those of us comfortable with using smartphones can simply point the camera at the QR code, … More Give a Little
This article was written for the November 2022 issue of our parish magazine. Sarah Quartel is a Canadian composer and educator, known for her fresh and exciting approach to choral music, and I was first introduced to her work in August 2021. I was at the Sing for Pleasure summer school for choral conductors, where … More I Remember (Sarah Quartel)
Continuing our look ‘under the bonnet’ of what keeps our parish ticking over, this week meet Document Mouse. These mice do all paperwork, child protection, gift aid, regular giving, standing orders, the electoral role, and such like. They manage to record a large amount of necessary data, some record minutes of what is said at … More Document Mice
All are welcome to any or all of our Christmas services, at either or both of our churches. Please spread the word, and bring friends!
I enjoy my visits across the Pennines to visit Rev Debby, and on my summer visit this year, she introduced me to a beautiful picture book called “The Lost Words”. It’s an over-sized picture book by Robert Macfarland and Jackie Morris, and was written as a response to the removal of everyday nature words from … More Lost Words Blessing – Jim Molynexy & Kate Howard
This month’s letter comes from Rev Steve: This season of Remembrance begins with the memory of a month that will resonate for many years. When I first heard of the terrible attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation on 2nd October, Yom Kippur, I knew I had to get there as quick as I could. But … More November Letter to the Parish
QR codes are now commonplace, on posters, leaflets, TV screens, and on our weekly service sheets. QR codes are clever bits of technology – a bit like bar codes – that link the real world with the online world. Those of us comfortable with using smartphones can simply point the camera at the QR code, … More Give a Little
This article was written for the November 2022 issue of the parish magazine. It still holds true! I write this the day after returning home from a 9-day singing and conducting summer school with Sing for Pleasure. Based at Jesus College, Cambridge, it was utterly exhausting yet completely exhilarating. Work began at 8.45am last Sunday … More Why Sing?
Continuing our look ‘under the bonnet’ of what keeps our parish ticking over, Culinary mice bake cakes, make soups, jams and chutneys for events and fund raising.
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