10th November 2024 – Remembrance Sunday Why can darkness seem scary? Is it, to state the obvious, the fact we can’t see? There is more than one way to interpret darkness. Barbara Brown Taylor wrote a brilliant book entitled ‘Learning to walk in the dark’. In it she explores her own fear of darkness and …
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Sermon 2024-07-21
21st July 2024 – Communion This just might be the most worthless sermon you’ve ever heard! Because, firstly I’m going turn into a school teacher and tell you about St James, our patronal saint, who I’m sure you know all about already and then I’m going to extoll the virtues of walking, to a congregation …
Sermon 2024-07-14
14th July 2024 – Evensong Ephesians 1:3-14 Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians is a wonderful book for any Christian to spend their devotional time with. It is just six chapters long. It can easily be read in one sitting. And it is filled with important insights on our Christian faith in broad terms, but also …
Music 2024-07-14
14th July 2024 – 7th Sunday after Trinity 6pm Choral Evensong Organ: Messe pour les Couvents (extracts) – François CouperinIntroit: O Lord, increase our faith – Henry LoosemoreHymns NEH210 (vv 1,6,7,8) Only begotten, Word of God eternal; NEH: 461 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy; NEH252 The day thou gavestPsalm: 66 (vv1-8) Canticles: Dyson in …
Music 2024-07-07
7th July 2024 – 6th Sunday after Trinity 10:30am Parish Communion Organ: Messe pour les Couvents (extracts) – François CouperinIntroit: Ye sons and daughters of the King (St Thomas version)Hymns NEH466 Thou whose almighty word; NEH357 Father hear the prayer we offer; [IA: NEH 144]; NEH376 I heard the voice of Jesus; NEH372 He who …
Sermon 2024-06-02
2nd June 2024 Sermon 1 Samuel 3:1-20 Have you ever been in bed, just dropping off when you think you hear a noise? A banging, a cry – something that jolts you out of your slumber? I know when I bought my first daughter home from hospital, I imagined all sorts of noises – the …
Music 2024-06-09
9th June 2024 – 2nd after Trinity: 6.00 Choral Evensong with a medieval flavour Prelude: Méditation (from Thaïs) – Massenet played by Laura Steele violinIntroit: Before the ending of the day – PlainchantHymns: NEH364 God is love, let heaven adore him; NEH390 (t493) Jesus, wher’er thy people meet; NEH361 Forth in the peace of Christ …
Music 2024-06-02
2nd June 2024 – 1st after Trinity 10.30 Parish Communion Organ: A Fancy for Double Orgaine – Orlando GibbonsIntroit: O Lord, increase our faith – Henry LoosemoreHymns: NEH377 Immortal, invisible; NEH456 Teach me, my God and King ; [IA: NEH 144]; NEH239 Lord of all hopefulness; NEH420 O Jesus, I have promised.Anthem Ye choirs of …
Sermon 2024-05-05
Sermon 5th May 2024 Acts 10:44-end, John 15:9-17 The desire for certainty goes very deep, and all of todays readings look at that longing with sympathy, though the answers they give are as challenging as they are reassuring. In the Gospel, Jesus is at last giving his disciples ‘commandments’. If the disciples have been listening to …
2024-05 Reflection from the Rectory
May 2024 – Reflections from the Rectory I find May a great month! In the church we celebrate the Ascension (when Jesus ascended into heaven on the 40th day after his resurrection), Pentecost (when the Holy Spirit was poured out and made available to all), and Trinity Sunday (where we focus on the mystery of …
