Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s an update on our flock’s travels and “Adam Lay Ybounden”, an advent carol from Maggie’s Music Makers … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 day 3
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today we see our flock of knitted sheep making their way to the crib and hear from our music group singing “Advent to Christmas” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 day 2
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s a message from Rev Deborah and … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021 day 1
A watched kettle, they say, never boils which is another way of saying that the longer we wait for something the longer it seems to take in coming … More Rev Deborah’s Advent Message
Our Digital Advent Calendar for 2021 will begin in earnest on Wednesday 1 December. However, as today is the first Sunday of Advent, here is the Advent Prose – an ancient plainsong chant that takes a series of texts drawn from Isaiah … More Digital Advent Calendar 2021
Today we remember Hugh, who was the Bishop of Lincoln in the 12th century. The king at the time was Henry the Second. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, had been murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights who thought that they were acting on the King’s wishes … More Speaking truth to power
Have you ever played the memory game? A collection of random objects is displayed on a tray, covered with a cloth. The cloth is whisked away, and you are given 30 seconds to memorise them, before the cloth is quickly replaced and the tray removed … More Remembering and memories
I have written before that sometimes I hear, sing or play a piece of music and just have to write about it immediately. It can then sit for quite some time waiting for an appropriate time for publication. So it was with this. Written in December 2017, this is the right time: the commemoration of the centenary of the end of the First World War … More Better is Peace (Jenkins 2001)
Good morning and welcome to our service of Holy Communion in which we celebrate Christ the King.
Our opening hymn is “O Worship the King” … More Christ the King
November is the time for remembrance, whether the private memories on All Souls Day or the public recollection on Remembrance Sunday. In this poem Kathy Galloway does not shy away from the difficult emotions … More There will be peace between us
St Margaret's Church Prestwich 