Dear Friends, As we now know that Covid restrictions will continue until 17th July, I am writing to assure you of our Church’s continuing care for you. Disorientation from normal routine can leave one both frustrated and floundering. In the book of Proverbs (13:12) we read that, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick”, and, due to […]
Dear Friends, This Sunday, 13th June, is Trinity 2. Services ‘in person’ will be as follows in our three churches, and there will continue to be a video offering on the usual YouTube channel. Follow this link: SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY SERVICE and PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION 8am Communion at St Peter’s Church, in the Keble Chapel. 10am at St Peter’s: I […]
Dear Friends, In April last year, Tom Roberts released a poem on YouTube which has since been viewed tens of millions of times. I shared it with St Peter’s congregation in July and waved his book around, commending it to all and sundry. Called, ‘The Great Realisation’, it’s now been translated into dozens of languages. […]
Dear Friends, We live in ‘in-between’ time, neither totally locked down, nor yet completely free of restrictions, and that liminal place, of neither one thing nor the other, is not the most comfortable place in which to be. To be sure, we can do all sorts of things, in terms of hospitality, travelling and amenities, that […]
Dear Friends, Within this next ten days, we welcome one of the Church’s major festivals, Ascension Day (and I shall share Malcom Guite’s poem about The Ascension with you shortly), we also have an annual opportunity to focus on supporting in prayer and finance the worldwide work for justice and peace of Christian Aid (and my video of intercessions […]
Dear Friends, Let me share with you Malcom Guite’s poem, ‘I am the Vine’, which stimulates reflection around our Gospel reading for this Sunday, 2nd May: John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye […]
