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  • New Year’s Day Service

    Don’t forget that there’s a New Year’s Day service – 11 am in St Mary’s. I’m offering to do a blessing of the diaries at the end of the service, so if you want your diary, filofax, iPad or mobile blessed then do bring it along.

  • 2010 Blog Highlights

    Here are the posts from this blog that you’ve been most interested in commenting on this year: * Inclusive Language – again (49) * Sermon – 26 September 2010 (46) * Where to find a place to stand? [Papal Visit] (38) * News from the States [Mary Glasspool’s election] (35) * Liturgy Online – again…

  • Another day in the vineyard

    Quite a busy week this is turning out to be in St Mary’s. This morning it was off into work first thing to try to meet a photocopier engineer who was booked to provide healing and balm to the weary machine which serves us so well in our regular task of bringing God’s kingdom one…

  • Christmas Sermon

    Here is what I said in the pulpit on Christmas Day There’s a whole slew of new sermons on the preaching page.

  • He is come

    He is come, he is come. Wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. Our God is amongst us.

  • How to be single at Christmas

    I find myself wanting to write something about being single at Christmas. After all, I’ve got some experience to draw on. There was a time when I used to find being on my own at Christmas a tricky thing to think about, but these days its one of the times of the year when I…

  • Here it comes again!

    At last. The solstice is behind us.

  • +Richard on the new atheists

    Don’t miss Richard Holloway’s  book review on The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas. Here’s the full link. And here is a highlight: That said, this book is fun, especially if you read it as a prospectus for a complex and varied religious position. The comedians in it – and there are too many of them –…

  • Decorating the Church

    Now, just in case there is anyone reading this who comes to St Mary’s who hasn’t been around in previous years at Christmas – there’s a job to be done tomorrow that you might not know about and your help would be most appreciated. As a liturgical church we are vigilant about keeping Advent, a time of…

  • The Antiphons

    The Advent antiphons begin at this time. They are mystical phrases that are inserted into the liturgy of evening prayer before and after the Magnificat in the days leading up to Christmas. They each have their own plainsong – ethereal music that comes to us from somewhere deep inside the mystery of advent. In St…