Category: Parish Magazine
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May ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners As another month begins, the coronavirus has not gone away but, at least here in our island, the danger of transmission does seem to be reducing. Our government is looking at how best to gradually remove some of the restrictions we have been living with. This topic, along with many other…
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April ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners As we approach Holy Week and Easter, I offer you the poignancy and joy of this season. I keep you in my prayers, petitioning God for your safety and well-being. The events of the last week of Jesus life provide us with inspiration and reflection in our present situation brought about…
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March ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners You might have noticed the scaffolding round the vicarage over the past few weeks (an old leaky roof being replaced). This work, coinciding with some of the worst storms battering our island and across, has brought to my mind the power of nature. God created ‘all things seen and unseen’ and…
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February ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners As I prepare to write to you this month, uppermost in my mind is how blessed I am. God has called me to minister in a beautiful place, with supportive congregations, a comfortable home and a loving family. Although things are not always ‘plain sailing’ my life is good, as we…
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January ’20 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners Thanks to Heather Paisley, our editor, I am, for the first time, wishing you a Happy New Year in a ‘stand-alone’ January edition of our parish magazine. In previous years we have had a combined Christmas and New Year edition so we are breaking new ground as a new decade begins.…
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December ’19 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners I have just selected the Advent Study Course book for this year, ‘Image of the Invisible’ by Amy Scott Robinson, published by the Bible Reading Fellowship. I do hope that you either attend the sessions or read the book with its daily readings for Advent and Epiphany, or better still do…
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November ’19 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners The clocks have changed, and in the wonderful way of the Church, as the physical world goes into longer periods of darkness, spiritually we enter the Season of Light. During November we are reminded that our faith in Jesus Christ takes us beyond the darkness of death into the glorious light…
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September ’19 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners What a mixed bag of weather we have had this summer, more like autumn sometimes! Our climate never leaves us short of conversation material. It also makes us aware of the fragility of the world and our individual and collective responsibility to be good stewards of creation. Since our Lent Eco-challenge,…
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July & August ’19 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners The excitement, noise and bustle of the TT races is behind us. Despite the downturn in the weather bringing more rain and mist than sunshine and dry spells, the bikers that I spoke to who visited Marown Church for hospitality were pleased to be here on their holidays. For some people…
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June ’19 Parish Magazine
Dear Friends and Parishioners Well the excitement of the TT races will have been and gone by the end of the first week of this glorious month of June. We pray that there will have been fine weather, great racing and safety for competitors and spectators alike along with genuine fellowship offered through the hospitality…