Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 25 February, the second of Lent. Rev Sue will preside.
We begin with the hymn “Lord of the Dance” … More Sunday Service 25 Feb 2024
Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 18 February – the first Sunday of Lent 2024. Rev Daniel will preach and preside.
We begin with the hymn “Forty Days and Forty Nights” … More The Baptism of Christ
Sometimes it is hard to hold up the bible at the end of the gospel and say this is the gospel of the Lord, how do you reverence what we’ve just heard what a gospel! You need a lie down after that and to top it all there’s a list at the end and it’s a list and a half. How to defile or not to defile and we’re reading a list almost 2,000 years old and I agree with most of them, at least some of them still … More Difficult passages of scripture
When I was at theological college you have to many different bible modules and in one particular Old Testament we had to choose out of three passages to write an assignment on (quite standard). The one I choose was the one on the book of Proverbs because I hadn’t really engaged with much before so I though why not and I really liked it, the first nine chapters of the book are an interesting introduction to the wisdom that was to follow … More In the beginning was the Word
What comes to mind when you think about February? Top of my mind is daffodils, and those lovely sunny days when the promise of spring is in the air. The days begin to lengthen more rapidly and there is a feeling of hope and energy on its way … More February Letter to the Parish
Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 4 February. Rev Sue will preside and Rev Helen will preach … More Sunday Service 4 February 2024
St Anthony lived for over a hundred years from 250 to 355. These were turbulent times for Christianity. The first half of his life was during the reign of the emperor Diocletian, who put many Christians to death in an attempt to stamp out a religion that would not bow to the authority of the state … More Anthony of Egypt
I just love the whole [of the] book [of Revelation] it is so amazing and I think the thing that attracts me to it really is the imagery and everything that comes behind that and Revelation gives us some very iconic images, that I’m sure we’re all familiar with … More The Revelation of Jesus Christ
William Laud was Archbishop of Canterbury during the 1630 and 1640’s, this was a very tumultuous period of English history right before the English Civil War when to two rival factions were fighting for dominance, (sorry I’m a historian and I love this period, I’ve really had to restrain myself here), I think it’s fair to say that these factions have several different names … More Being disciples of Jesus
Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 24 January, the second of Epiphany. Rev Sue will preside and Rev Helen will preach. We begin with the hymn “The Summons” … More Come and See
St Margaret's Church Prestwich 