March 2018 Saint Faith’s News When is a cup of tea a sacrament? Well, according to the official doctrines of the Church – it isn’t really. But there is something deeply sacramental about all life. Small gestures of kindness and care can help to build us up as the body of Christ. A cup of…
March 2018 Saint Mary’s Panto Players strike again … Once more two packed audiences (no seating room left at both afternoon and evening shows) cheered, booed, laughed and sang along with the Panto Players as they told the tale of ‘Babes in the Wood’. Thanks to the assistance of Barry Thorpe on the lights and…
March 2018 Father Bob writes It never ceases to amaze me that as the last chords of ‘That was the show’ die away, the question is already being asked by those on stage – ‘What will we do next year?’ This is repeated when on the Sunday afternoon, after all the props and costumes have…
February 2018 Saint Wilfrid’s News There was a distinctively green and sprout feel to the Church in December. SWISHERS and the Church both adopted the Christian Aid Christmas campaign with gusto. The SWISHERS Nativity celebration looked at the story from the perspective of the story of the ‘Stinky Sprouts’. The acting and storytelling – despite…
February 2018 Saint Faith’s News When Christina Rossetti wrote the words, “In the bleak mid-winter…” she knew exactly the atmosphere she was creating. In one sparse phrase it is all conjured up – the cold, the darkness, the sense of the earth’s resting. Although she was describing December, she could just as well have been…
February 2018 Saint Mary’s News The February Magazine is always a tricky one to provide material for as we are reflecting on the last 2 months at the Church. Probably the two busiest in terms of events and activities – so rather than a blow by blow account of all that has happened, what follows…
February 2018 Father Bob writes The plethora of bugs, viruses and infections that have been around since the start of the year seems to have affected a lot of us. I have been wrestling with them since before Christmas – and the end still does not seem to be in sight. The effect of the…
Things are sprouting up all over the place at Saint Wilfrid’s … Thanks to SWISHERS flc there is a mass production of Brussels Sprouts (well, papier-mâché sprouts) as they prepare for the Christmas Season. The reason is related to the Christian Aid Christmas Campaign which is encouraging us to think about how we should not…
One afternoon I was at home when there was a knock on the door. A package had arrived! Addressed to me!! This was an order I had placed only a couple of days before, and which I thought would be delivered 8-10 days hence. What unexpected joy! I opened it and found inside some decorations…
November is normally associated with ‘remembering’ and for Saint Mary’s it is also a chance of ‘reflecting’ before we start the opportunity to share the Christmas story and message with a variety of local groups and schools. This year the month began with another beautiful Choral Requiem – thank you to our musicians for this…