The “Agnus Dei” is the last movement of any mass setting, and it means “Lamb of God”. Throughout the Old Testament, blood sacrifices are offered to please God, to praise him, to thank him, and to ask favour of him. Jesus put an end to that by offering himself as the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. He became the sacrificial lamb, submitting entirely to God’s will and dying a tortuous death on our behalf … More Agnus Dei
Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 8 September – the second in the season of Creationtide – in which we consider humanity.
Rev Sue presides and Rev Christine will preach.
We begin with the hymn “There is a longing in our hearts” … More Creationtide week 2: Humanity
When I was training to be a priest I trained alongside members of the Methodist church and you think we’re all Christians, this is going to be fine. Despite being from two different denominations we had a lot of classes together, the same biblical study, doctrine, mission and ministry but get down to the everyday of doing things that’s when our differences started to become a bit clearer and there were a few friendly and not so friendly debates … More Why can’t we all just get on and do as Jesus asked?
Good morning and welcome to our service of All Age Worship for Sunday 1 September. We begin the season of Creationtide by thinking about the earth. Rev Steve will preach, and Rev Sue presides.
We begin with the hymn “How Great Thou Art” … More Creationtide week 1: Earth
You’ve probably noticed these graphics on our weekly service sheets recently, but what are they? It’s a QR code. QR codes are clever bits of technology – a bit like bar codes – that link the real world with the online world … More Give a Little
I’m going to start with a question: Just want you to think about this for a moment. What is your favourite food? Is it something sweet or something savoury? Something that you make sure you have a lot or something that you treat yourself too occasionally? Is it making your mouth water just thinking about it, I know it is mine, nice piece of Lamb lovely … More Food when we’re hungry
I’m sure many of you will have or have had a pet at some point in your life. In our house when I was younger we were limited to smaller animals, like rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters anything without a tail that was my mums only rule. However I have been round to other friends houses and seen other pets. … More Even those who get the crumbs
I have spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks thinking about what it means to be a priest. For inspiration I turned to the bible and thought about a couple of verses I have heard at 40th and 60th anniversaries of ordination. The first is from Isaiah 6 when the voice of the Lord says ‘who shall I send?’ and there is the immediate response, ‘Here I am, send me!’ … More Being a Priest
Having spent most of my life growing up in Oldham my exposure to sheep has been limited mainly to a nice warm woolly jumper of a tasty piece of lamb with a dollop of mint sauce, beautiful. I do think thought that sheep get rather a bad reputation for being belligerent, stupid, not doing as they are told, getting themselves stuck in things or just behaving in a bit of an odd way however they are also quite cute and loveable, I had a friend who was obsessed with sheep when we were younger which I never quite understood … More Jesus the Good shepherd
What does it mean to trust someone? I mean really trust someone, like the person you can tell a secret and you know it will go no further, who you would let look after you knowing everything will be ok. Trusting someone unconditionally is something that no one takes lightly … More Putting your trust into someone
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