Category: Pew Sheet
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Weekly Pew Sheet 31-05-20
Bishop Peter is posting his final weekly video reflection today in celebration of Pentecost. You can find it via the diocesan website. There is a live streamed Eucharist from the cathedral this evening 6pm for Pentecost. You can join in by going onto the cathedral website www.cathedral.im and following the link. A Letter for Pentecost…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 24-05-20
This Thursday just past was Ascension Day. It comes 40 days after Easter Day and one of the main feast days of the Christianity. It is the day that marks the end of Jesus earthly appearances that followed his resurrection, and his return to heaven, thus, liberating Jesus from our sense of time and space. …
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Weekly Pew Sheet 17-05-20
Today (17 May) is Rogation Sunday. Rogation is celebrated tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday and precedes Ascension Day on Thursday. The word Rogation is from the Latin Rogare which means ‘to ask’ and the days of prayer, fasting and processions are a formal means of asking God for a good Harvest, protection against natural disasters and…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 10-05-20
Today our fellowships at Marown and at St Luke’s should have been celebrating their church anniversaries. Instead, due to current circumstances, we give thanks for our common life together in Jesus’ name from our homes as we pray… Almighty God, to your glory we celebrate our homes as houses of prayer: We praise you for…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 3-05-20
Bishop Peter is posting on the diocesan website a weekly video reflection based on the Sunday’s Eucharistic readings. The upcoming Bible readings will be posted on the website on the Thursday beforehand to allow people an opportunity to reflect on the text in advance of the Bishop’s sermon, the video will then go online every…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 26-4-20
Today we should have held our annual meetings to elect churchwardens and PCC members. We would have reviewed the past year and looked ahead to the next twelve months. These meetings are now indefinitely postponed until it is safe for us to gather again when our churches have reopened. I am delighted that our churchyards…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 19-4-20
In many churches today is known as ‘Low Sunday’, the tension of Holy Week and the joy of Easter Day have passed and we wonder what will happen next, what will the empty tomb mean for us. Starting this Sunday (19th), Bishop Peter will be posting on the diocesan website a weekly video reflection based…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 12-4-20
The most glorious day of our Church year has arrived and despite the social-distancing and church closures we will rejoice in the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour. We are more aware than ever before of our need for Jesus atoning sacrifice and the victory over death that comes from his resurrection. Our Bible readings…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 5-4-20
We are at the beginning of the most sacred week in our Church year. We celebrate Jesus entry into Jerusalem, the crowds cheering and waving their palm branches. This rapturous reception soon turned sour and by Friday Jesus would die on the cross. Doug chalk has written an excellent piece about Palm Sunday. There is…
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Weekly Pew Sheet 29-3-20
Today is Passion Sunday – the fifth Sunday of Lent. It marks the beginning of a two-week period called Passiontide that ends on Holy Saturday – the eve of Easter Day. The Passion of Christ is the story of Jesus’s arrest, trial and suffering, ending with his execution by crucifixion – albeit the full story…