We’re within a week of Christmas, and today’s Advent treats are Carol and Tom singing “Joy to the World”, Michael reads for us “A Christmas Star”, and Maggie’s Music Makers sing “Angels from the Realms of Glory” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 18
What Advent treats await us in the parish advent calendar today? It’s Carol and Tom singing “While Shepherds Watched” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, followed by Michael Knaggs reading “Candles Banish Darkness” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 17
I spent two weeks of October in Lahore, Pakistan, which has a longstanding link with Manchester Diocese. What most people have asked me before and since, my mother being one of the loudest voices, is why do you want to go to Pakistan? It is a question I asked myself many times after registering interest in the visit … More My Time in Lahore
Let’s open today’s virtual door on the parish Advent calendar… and find the choir, Maggie’s Music Makers singing “In the Bleak Midwinter”, the parish pianist playing “We Three Kings” and Rev Helen reading “The Four Candles” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 16
I meet up each month for lunch with a group of friends. Usually Wednesday lunchtimes are fairly quiet – this week the pub was full, mostly with people celebrating Christmas, although from the church perspective we’re still in Advent. Every year we have these dilemmas – when to put up the Christmas tree, to have the Christmas flowers and to bring out the crib … More Gaudete Sunday
What’s behind the virtual door of the parish Advent calendar today? It’s our parish musicians singing the Sussex Carol, the choir singing “This Little Light of Mine”, and Rev Helen reading “This Candle” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 15
What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? It’s an interesting question and one that we do ask a lot because that’s what we all are. We are disciples of Jesus, we are the ones who have received his message that has been passed down for over 2,000 years and are charged with keeping on passing it onto the next generation and the next … More Being a disciple of Jesus
Behind today’s virtual door of the parish Advent calendar we have the choir singing “See Amid the Winter’s Snow”, Rev Sue and Bishop David reading “If I was God”, and Rev Helen reads “A Wonderful Life in Christ” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 14
Today our Advent gifts from members of the parish are the choir singing for us “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”, followed by Carol and Tom with “Myn Lyking”, and then Rev Sue reads “Giving Time” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 13
Today’s treats for Advent are our parish choir singing “Silent Night”, Rev Sue reads for us a meditation of a resident of Jerusalem, and the choir sings for us “Maranatha”, an Advent carol written by the 2022 parish Advent course, to the tune of “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 12
St Margaret's Church Prestwich 