It’s the eighth day of Christmas 2024, but the fist day of 2025! We wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful new year. To celebrate, our gift to you today is of course eight maids a-milking, sung by our choir. If you’d like to join them, please contact us … More The 8th Day of Christmas 2024
Naturally, our seventh Christmas gift to you all is seven swans a-swimming, sung by our choir … More The 7th Day of Christmas 2024
Our gift to you for the sixth day of Christmas is six geese a-laying … More The 6th Day of Christmas 2024
What else could we give you on the fifth day of Christmas than five gold rings? … More The 5th Day of Christmas 2024
Our gift to you for the fourth day of Christmas is of course four calling birds … More The 4th Day of Christmas 2024
On the third day of Christmas our gift to you is of course three French hens. This is also the day on which we mark the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod – recounted for you in the hauntingly beautiful Coventry Carol … More The 3rd Day of Christmas 2024
On the second day of Christmas 2024 our gift to you is of course two turtle doves. Also known as “Boxing Day” (in the UK) and St Stephen’s Day (elsewhere), we also celebrate Good King Wenceslas, and the fact that this is indeed the most Wonderful Time of the Year … More The 2nd Day of Christmas 2024
Good King Wenceslas is a traditional carol that gets sung most years during the Christmas season. Have you ever thought about the words whilst singing them? It’s a narrative song, with elements of dialogue … More Good King Wenceslas:
On this the first day of Christmas 2024 we wish you a blessed festive season. Our first Christmas gift to you is of course a partridge in a pear tree, followed by Rev Sue reading “Christmas Magic”, and our choir will sing for you “O Come all ye Faithful”, with the glorious final verse, sung only on Christmas Day … More The 1st Day of Christmas 2024
This is the last day of Advent. The liturgical season of Christmas starts tomorrow. One more sleep. Behind the last virtual door of our parish digital Advent Calendar we have the choir singing the fabulous “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”, Tome and Carol sing “The Christmas Song”, and the choir treats you to some very familiar words set to an equally familiar – yet unexpected – tune … More Digital Advent Calendar 2024: day 24
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