9th March 2025 Evensong Luke 4:1-13 It will not have escaped your notice that today is the first Sunday of Lent. Although the Easter eggs seem to have been in the shops since about Boxing Day! The lectionary readings today remind us both of the temptations of Adam in the Garden of Eden and of …
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Sermon 2025-03-02
2nd March 2025 Homily Exodus 34; 29-end, Luke 9: 28-36 Whoever decided on the lectionary readings for the year was, I felt inspired to include the account of Jesus’ miraculous transfiguration for this the Sunday before Lent. To me it is the sort of uplifting spiritual treat similar in its way to the culinary …
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Music 2025-04-13
13th April 2025 – Palm Sunday Joint SJ/CC Parish Communion 10:30am Reading of the Passion according to LukeIntroit: The royal banners forward go – PlainchantAnthem: Behold the Lamb of God – HandelOrgan: Fugue in A minor – Handel [MK] & Fantasia in G minor (BWV 542i) – J S Bach [MK]
Music 2025-04-06
6th April 2025 – 5th Sunday of Lent (Passiontide begins) Parish Communion 10:30am Introit & IA: Lent Prose – PlainchantAnthem: O Saviour of the world – OuseleyOrgan Toccata & Fugue in D minor (BWV 538) – J S Bach [MK]
Music 2025-03-31
31st March 2025 – Choir Practise Christ Church 7:00pm
Music 2025-03-30
30th March 2025 4th Sunday of Lent & Mothering Sunday A Mothering Sunday Service for the Leith Hill Benefice 10:30am Organ: Voluntary in D minor Op.V/8 – John Stanley [MK]Hymns: Tell out, my soul; How great thou art; To God be the gloryOrgan: Fugue in G minor (BWV 542ii) – J S Bach [MK]
Music 2025-03-09
9th March 2025 1st Sunday of Lent Choral Evensong 6:00pm Organ: Sonata in G minor (opening) – Handel played by Laura SteeleIntroit: Wash me throughly – S S WesleyHymns: NEH64 Be thou my guardian and my guide; NEH61 (tune NEH80) O Christ, who art the Light and Day; NEH383 (tune ii) Jesu, lover of my …
Music 2025-03-02
2nd March 2025 The Sunday next before Lent/Quinquagesima Parish Communion 10:30am Organ: Voluntary in C major – William Boyce [Byrd to the Wesleys voluntary series concludes]Introit: Call to Worship – William ByrdHymns: NEH473 (tune ii) When morning gilds the skies (omit*); NEH178 ‘Tis good, Lord, to be here; NEH343 Bright the vision that delighted; [IA: The …
Sermon – 2025-02-09
9th February 2025 Colossians 3: 1-22 and Matthew 5: 13-18 (Psalm 1) In our readings and Psalm today, we are given images of what we shall be like if we follow God. Psalm 1 says: And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season; …
