Every Tuesday and Thursday in Lent we will bring you a short reflection based on one of the Stations of the Cross. Today Rev Sue talks about Station 2: Christ takes up his cross … More Stations of the Cross 02
Every Sunday, Monday and Friday in Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten hymn. Today our choir sings “At the Name of Jesus” for you … More Lent Hymns
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
Every Sunday, Monday and Friday in Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten hymn. Today Carol and Tom sing “On Jordan’s Bank” for you … More Lent Hymns
Every Saturday in Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten anthem. From tomorrow the liturgical theme will be temptation, so Carol and Tom sing this beautiful song for you … More Lenten Anthems
Every Sunday, Monday and Friday in Lent we are pleased to offer you an appropriate Lenten hymn. Today Carol and Tom sing for you Orlando Gibbons’ “Drop, Drop Slow Tears” … More Lent Hymns
Every Tuesday and Thursday in Lent we will bring you a short reflection based on one of the Stations of the Cross. Today ALM Carol P talks about Station 1: Christ is condemned to death … More Stations of the Cross 01
Today is Ash Wednesday, so Carol and Tom sing for you this traditional Lenten hymn … More Lenten Hymns
The trouble with writing about a seasonally appropriate piece of music each month is that there is far more Advent/Christmas/Epiphany music than there are suitable months in the year. So, this month I’m stretching a point. The season Christmas begins on Christmas Day and lasts until Candlemas, 40 days later, so despite technically having moved into Epiphany, here is a beautiful Christmas carol written by John Rutter in 1988 … More Angels’ Carol – John Rutter (b. 1945)
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
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