Three more sleeps! Today behind the virtual door of our digital Advent Calendar we find our parish musicians singing “O Holy Night”, ALM Carol O reads for us “Starburst – a Cosmic Story”, and Carol & Tom sing “A Maiden Most Gentle” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 22
Four more sleeps! Today’s Digital Advent Calendar gifts for you are Carol and Tom singing “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” and “Let it Snow”, followed by Rev Sue reading “To Wish You Well” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 21
Five more sleeps! Today’s Digital Advent Calendar gifts are the choir singing “Once in Royal David’s City”, Rev Sue reading Rachel Mann’s reflection “A Villager”, and Carol & Tom singing “King Jesus Hath a Garden” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 20
Six more sleeps! Today our Digital Advent Calendar gift is the Choir, Maggie’s Music Makers singing “One Winter’s Night”, then Carol and Tom sing for us Bob Chilcott’s wonderful “Mid-Winter”, and Rev Helen reads for us “”I Have Light” … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 19
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
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