The Monday after Pentecost marked the beginning of what is known as ‘Ordinary Time’ which, in the church calendar, carries on right until Advent Sunday! The Day of Pentecost, which we celebrated on Sunday 24th May, was the end of the consecutive seasons of Lent and Easter, seasons which began way back in February on […]
Read MoreEaster Day might seem like a distant memory now, but Easter is a season and not just a day, and now, in the weeks that follow, we continue to think about Jesus’ Resurrection and what this means for us. Just as those first disciples tried to understand and come to terms with Jesus’ victory over […]
Read MoreLast Friday, as I’m sure you will all remember, we experienced a partial solar eclipse. As it turned out it was a bit of a disappointment really – or at least is was from where I tried to watch it – with the clouds appearing at just the wrong time. It didn’t even go that […]
Read MoreBy the time you are reading this the season of Lent will have just begun. These six weeks or so leading up to Easter recall the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness ‘being tempted by the devil’ prior to the beginning of his ministry. During Lent some of us might exercise our own […]
Read MoreOn the morning of Sunday 15th February we shall join with the congregation of Bethel for a united service followed by a shared lunch. You will remember that we did this last year to celebrate our ten years of sharing the Chapel building and we thought it would be good to try and do it […]
Read MoreAt the ending of one year and the beginning of another we cannot help but look back over the past and look forward to the future. Even the name of the month – January – suggests that this is something that humans have always done, at least since the Romans named the first month of […]
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