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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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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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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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Reflections on Luke 24:13-35
Travelling with companions and sharing meal-times are incredibly important occasions. Journeying short distances alone can seem tedious no matter what the comfort of your vehicle or the beauty of the scenery maybe. Solo meals can feel soulless regardless of their gourmet content. Under current guidelines ‘Best beloved’ and I haven’t been travelling very far but…
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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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Reflections on John 20:19-31
The Gospel readings for the past week have been about the discovery of the empty tomb on Easter Day morning. We have read how each of the four Gospel writers recorded this incredible event. We have, therefore, witnessed multiple times to the fact that Jesus was not dead, along with the women who were the…
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Easter Day 2020
Over the past week or so I have been able to look out from windows at the back of Marown Vicarage and watch new life unfolding. A particular joy has been to see two, sometimes three, young rabbits playing a game of tag round the vegetable beds at the top of the back garden. They…
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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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Easter Sunday Sermon 2020
Hope you’re enjoying the sunshine and the quietness. Happy Easter! Because it’s the most important (and joyful) day in the Christian calendar I’ve done a small piece on the resurrection (nothing original – nothing really new). The old medieval scholars – philosophers and theologians – always referred to two books: the book of Scripture and…
Marown, Foxdale and Baldwin Churches
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