It will not have escaped your notice that Easter Day falls on 1st April this year – April Fools Day. One media outlet is reporting that, because of the clash of dates, the Pope has decreed April Fools Day to be cancelled for 2018. Instead there will be two April Fools Days in 2019 – […]
Read MoreOn Ash Wednesday this year I went to a service in Holywell which included the ‘imposition of ashes’. This is where the priest or minister makes the sign of the cross on ones forehead with the words ‘Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return’. It is a stark reminder of our […]
Read MoreWe have spoken a few times recently about the URC’s focus on discipleship called Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today. In introducing this we have watched a couple of the films and given out the publicity leaflet which explains what Walking the Way is trying to encourage. In a nutshell this might […]
Read MoreAs we stand on the threshold of another New Year our minds naturally turn to what the future might hold. There is something about the beginning of January that leads to an almost romanticised vision of the year ahead. It’s a chance, for some, to wipe the slate clean and start again, letting bygones be […]
Read MoreChristmas approaches, of that there is no doubt. As we near the end of November the signs are unmissable – shops piled high with festive goods, Christmas adverts on the telly, trees and decorations appearing in house windows and before very long, the old favourites playing on the radio. Love it or hate it, there […]
Read MoreOn Sunday 12th November, Remembrance Sunday, we shall be holding a Church Meeting in the afternoon. As part of this meeting we intend to plant a tree to the side of the Paterson Hall, providing a feature within the small Peace Garden that is being created there. Thank you to David Wilson and Colin Richards […]
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