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: Words JM Neale (1818-66), melody from Piae Caniones (1582) arr. Willcocks
Thou whose almighty word, Lord thy word abideth, Glorious things of thee are spoken, just 3 of our hymns today speak about God’s word telling us this is Bible Sunday. Why today you may ask, when we use the Bible every Sunday, but today we give thanks for the Bible. I’d like to begin with the following poem which I came across when preparing my reflection … More Bible Sunday 2021
Welcome to our service of Holy Communion for our Harvest Festival. Rev Sue presides and Rev Deborah will preach – ably assisted by our Sunday School children … More Harvest Festival 2021
Good morning and welcome to our service of Holy Communion for Sunday 12 September, the 15th after Trinity. We continue with the theme of Creationtide, this week focussing on God’s abundance.
This morning also sees the licencing of Rev Sue as Associate Priest in our parish, by Bishop Mark who will also preach … More Sharing God’s Abundance
In 1989 Stephen Covey published his book the seven habits of highly effective people. It sold more than 25 million copies and has become a “Bible” among self-help books. I have a feeling that, in fact, everything he wrote about could be found in the actual Bible, which has been offering practical wisdom for two millennia … More It’s all about perspective
This article first appeared in the May 2018 issue of our parish magazine, and was written against a backdrop of chemical attacks and reprisal bombings in Syria, protracted Brexit negotiations … More A Place at the Table
Here is our service of Holy Communion for the second Sunday before Advent, on 15 November 2020 … More Second Sunday Before Advent
We celebrate Harvest this year on Sunday 4 October at St George’s and St Margaret’s, and also on 7 October for the Wednesday congregation … More Trinity 17: Harvest
With sincere apologies for the delays posting (Facebook live-streaming issues, 4G, broadband and wifi issues), this is our service for the 8th Sunday of Trinity. The Introit hymn is Lord enthroned in Heavenly Splendour. There is about 10 minutes of quiet organ music at the beginning of the service to help you settle ready for … More Trinity 8
Rev Deborah’s Harvest Sermon at St Margaret’s on Sunday 6 October was a fully interactive affair, and included a run-down of our Eco Week activities … More Harvest
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