Category: Parish Magazine
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Parish Magazine May 2022
Dear friends across the Parish, Last month I wrote to you about having a personal relationship with God through Jesus, an experience of the heart as well as of the mind and prayed that Lent would have been a time of spiritual blessings for you. Now that we have celebrated Easter, and continue to do…
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Parish Magazine April 2022
Dear friends and parishioners, As I write to you we are about the mark Palm Sunday and begin Holy Week, the culmination of Lent and the eager anticipation of Easter just around the corner. This is one of my favourite times in the church year, a pivotal time as we remember Jesus final days on…
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Parish Magazine March 2022
Dear friends across the parish and beyond, We have now entered the season of Lent and there seems so many situations that require repentance and transformation. As I write this the news from Ukraine is getting more serious and distressing with the fire at the nuclear power plant and the on-going attacks by Russian forces…
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Parish Magazine February 2022
Dear friends across the parish, In a letter dated 23rd September 1725 to the lawyer William Fortescue, the poet Alexander Pope wrote: ‘Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed’. From time to time we may share his feelings when circumstances turn against us. For the past 18 months the…
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Parish Magazine January 2022
Dear Friends across our Parish and beyond, Happy New Year, I hope you had a blessed Christmas and that 2022 has begun well for you and your family. January seems to me to be a month of mixed emotions, it is dark, cold and dreary due to the wintry weather but it is also a…
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Parish Magazine December 2021
Dear Friends across our Parish As we have moved from autumn to winter, the sounds that I hear from my vicarage study have changed. Whilst the hum of the passing traffic remains a constant audible companion the sounds of wind and rain are also making themselves heard, often with ferocity. These are reminders that we…
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Parish Magazine September 2021
Dear Friends across our Parish and beyond As I write this newsletter, I am preparing to go on annual leave. Given the many tragic situations around the world that have occurred over recent weeks, I consider myself blessed to have this opportunity to spend time with my family in safety and comfort. Indeed, the terrible…
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Parish Magazine June ’21
Dear Friends across our Parish Greetings as at last summer seems to be upon us – or at least for today – as the sun shines brightly and warmly through the vicarage study window. Much has happened since our re-opening from the last lockdown. At Marown we had a community wide service to mark the…
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Parish Magazine – May ’21
Dear Friends across our Parish During the past year many people may have been imagining a new way of living once ‘normality’ returned. There has been talk of a kinder, more caring society where people have time for their neighbours and re-build community bonds. Not an Aldous Huxley ‘Brave New World’ but a way of…
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Parish Magazine – April ’21
Dear Friends across our Parish I hope you had a very Happy Easter despite us not being able to celebrate this most holy occasion in church for a second year running. I also hope that you were able to ‘join in’ with an act of worship either locally on Facebook or Zoom or via national…