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Rector’s Reflections

February 2021 – Ash Wednesday: 17th February 2021

February 2021 – Ash Wednesday: 17th February 2021

When I started work on this month’s parish magazine, I was horrified to realise that Lent starts on 17th February.  But I feel I have been in Lent since March last year!  And we never got to celebrate Easter properly,

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December 2020 – People on the margins

December 2020 – People on the margins

A distinctive feature of our times is the voice of the marginalised, which is heard in a way that was never possible before.  This morning, on the BBC website (in addition to COVID stories!) there were stories about loneliness, anti-Semitism,

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November 2020 – Open and Shut

November 2020 – Open and Shut

One amazing thing about COVID-19 is its ability to shut things down.  For a couple of months all the churches were completely shut, alongside schools, businesses and many other things.  More recently many of these things have re-opened, but many

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October 2020 – Care for Creation

October 2020 – Care for Creation

4th October is the day the church remembers St Francis of Assisi.  It also marks the end of the Season of Creation (1st Sept to 4th Oct) during which churches worldwide pray for creation, that it may be well cared

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September 2020 – Worship as the Lockdown eases

September 2020 – Worship as the Lockdown eases

As the lockdown eased, St Mary’s started public worship again on Sunday 5th July, and St Michael’s on 19th July.  We were the first churches in the Deanery to recommence worship.  Our rural setting makes things a bit simpler, but

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July and August 2020 – Building Racial Harmony

July and August 2020 – Building Racial Harmony

I recently watched a TV programme about worldwide, interfaith relationships, which I came across through my involvement with the Focolare Movement. The relationships are based on the Golden Rule, “Do to others, what you would want them to do to

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June 2020 – The Impact of Lockdown on Parish Churches

June 2020 – The Impact of Lockdown on Parish Churches

The lockdown has had lots of negative impacts on the Parish Churches.  Public worship has been closed down, the church buildings are locked and all our baptisms and weddings are postponed.  Funerals can only happen in the churchyard or at

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May 2020 – Losing and Receiving

May 2020 – Losing and Receiving

As we grow in maturity we often have the experience of having to put things down, or let things go, in order to take up better things, things that are more important.  We might have to give up expensive holidays

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April 2020 – Making sense of Coronavirus

April 2020 – Making sense of Coronavirus

I’m writing in Lent, and it seems to me that the Coronavirus highlights certain themes that are important in Lent.   It reminds us that we are vulnerable to evil, and that evil can be around us and within us, even

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March 2020 – Lent and Environmental Repentance

March 2020 – Lent and Environmental Repentance

This year the month of March covers the first five Sundays of Lent.  Lent is a period of fasting and abstinence in preparation for Easter, which falls on 12th April this year.  Traditionally we adopt some discipline for Lent to

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