5th November 2023 Texts: Psalm 43, Matthew 24: 1-14 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. Psalm 42: 5 In your doubting may God’s truth become clear to you. in your fear may …
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Music 2023-12-03 Music
3rd December 2023, 1st Sunday of Advent Parish Communion 10:30am Organ: Wachet auf! (BWV 645) – J S BachIntroit: Remember, O thou man – Thomas RavenscroftHymns: NEH7 Hills of the north; NEH3 Come, thou long-expected JesusNEH16 Wake, O wake; NEH11 Lo, he comes with clouds descendingAnthem: The Lord at first did Adam make – Traditional …
Music 2023-11-12
12th November 2023 ,3rd Sunday before Advent 10.30am Service for Remembrance Sunday Organ: Elégie – VierneIntroi:t Kontakion for the Dead (from the Ukranian Orthodox Tradition)Hymns: NEH333 All my hope on God is founded; NEH391 King of glory, king of peace; Make me a channel of your peace (sheet); Lord for the years (sheet); 489 National Anthem …
Music 2023-11-05
5th November 2023, 4th Sunday before Advent Parish Communion 10:30am Organ: Prelude and Fugue in D minor (BWV 554) – atttrib. J S BachIntroit: Rejoice today with one accord (NEH 444) – M Luther/J S BachHymns: NEH473 When morning gilds the skies (omit*); NEH114 Now is eternal life; NEH396 Let saints on earth in concert …
Music 2023-10-08 Sermon
8th October 2023 evensong 18:00pm Proverbs 2:1-11, 1 John 2:1-17 Both our readings begin in the same way addressing us as my child, or my little children. Slightly condescending perhaps, or are we to approach these teachings with the curiosity, the wonder and the awe that little children approach the world? With open minds and …
2023-10-01 Sermon
1st October 2023 – Harvest Luke 12:16-30 I’m going to need some help for this. Can you fill this jar with sand please? And now with marbles. And now with rocks. Won’t fit? Ok, start again. How about, marbles first, then sand then rocks? No? Let’s see if it fits with rocks first, then marbles then rocks. This is our life. …
Music 2023-10-08
8th October 2023 – 18th Sunday after Trinity Choral Evensong 18:00pm Organ: Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 533) – J S BachIntroit: O Lorde, the maker of al thinge – John JoubertHymns: NEH388 Jesus shall reign; NEH74 Be thou my guardian and my guide; NEH434 Oft in danger, oft in woePsalm: 136 (selected …
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Reflection 2023-09-10
Reflection 10th September 2023 Meditation on “Father hear the prayer we offer” for Choral Evensong “Father, hear the prayer we offer; not for ease that prayer may be, but for strength that we may ever live our lives courageously.” What I wonder do we all make most central to our prayers and hazarding a guess …
Music 2023-10-01
1st October 2023 Joint Communion for Harvest Thanksgiving 10:30am St James’ Organ: Voluntary in C, Op.V.1 – John Stanley Introit: Psalm 65 Anthem: For the beauty of the earth – Philip Stopford Hymns: NEH264 (omit 5); All things bright & beautiful; Gloria substitute: NEH262 We plough the fields and scatter; NEH397 Let us with a gladsome …
