Category: Parish Magazine
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Parish Magazine – March ’21
Dear Friends across our Parish Greetings, spring has sprung! Everywhere nature is turning wonderful shades of green, with bulbs and buds of multi-colours appearing to brighten up our glorious countryside. We are now in the Church season of Lent and my aim for these weeks is……. to be more joyous and happy! Following a sermon…
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February ’21 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners When I wrote to you last month I don’t think any of us were anticipating the ‘circuit-breaker lockdown’ that began on 7th January. Through the media we were aware of the increasingly dire situation ‘across’ due to the pandemic, despite the beginning of the vaccination programme. Here we were also conscious…
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December ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners, By the time you read this edition of our parish magazine, Advent will have begun and Christmas will be rapidly approaching. This year the Church of England seasonal theme is ‘Comfort and Joy’, much needed after the circumstances of the past months. Comfort and joy are two important aspects of our…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 22-11-2020
Services today are: 10am Foxdale CW HC 10.30am Marown Morning Praise 6.30pm Baldwin CW HC Next Sunday is Advent Sunday & 5th Sunday of the month. Services will be: 10.30am M Celtic Communion 6.30pm Baldwin Guest Service with Revd Steven Herron This week… Thank you to all those people who contributed to our Harvest cash…
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November ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners This month we come to the last of our reflections on the ‘Pastoral Principles’ I introduced to you earlier in the year. These are a series of ethical guides that seek to help us in our relationships, one to another, both within and outside of the Church. This month we consider…
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October ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners What an exciting time we are now entering in the life of our parish! Revd Steven Herron joins us for his curacy following his ordination in the cathedral on 26th September. This was a joyous occasion, though sadly due to the Covid 19 travel restrictions, many of his family were not…
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September ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners across our parish and beyond, The summer is almost behind us and autumn is tapping on the windows as wind and rain batter our island, but at least we have had relief from the corona virus for the past few months and pray that it will be so for the months…
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July/August ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners across our parish and beyond, It is with relief that our island is now Covid free and has been so for over 30 days. However, we live with the concern that it may return, and although most restrictions have been lifted, we recognise that life will not resume exactly as it…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 7-6-20
The wait is nearly over…………. after many weeks of closure Bishop Peter has announced that our churches can begin to reopen their doors for private prayer and small-scale weddings and funerals (fewer than 10 people). Our Churchwardens and PCC are working hard to put things in place for a safe reopening of Marown Church initially…
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June ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners Greetings from Marown Vicarage. I pray that you are all safe, well and coping with the changes the coronavirus has forced upon our daily lives. We are thankful that the number of ‘active cases’ of the infection continues to fall and that lockdown restrictions are being eased (though at the point…