BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 3rd January – Epiphany (Transferred) For more information about anything in this Bulletin contact the Vicar Items for inclusion in next weeks BENEFICE BULLETIN by Friday please Vicar: The Rev’d Henry Heath, Wormingford Vicarage CO6 3AZ ( 01 787 227398 email:vicar@wormingford.com See your parish website: www.wormingford.com, [...]
word from Wormingford…….. Christianity is not an antiquated religion, says Ronald Blythe LIKE everyone else — I trust — in the Church of England, I have been reading and watching Diarmaid MacCulloch’s A History of Christianity. It has been sweeping me along, racing me through the centuries, confirming my prejudices, challenging my dullness, waking [...]
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Ronald Blythe walks down boyhood lanes and remembers Christmasas past spent in Cornwall I HAD hardly turned my back on the late afternoon when the vast, bleached Advent moon swung up hi the north-east. It whitened the puddles and lit the wet fields. The paths are darkened with sodden leaves, and rainwater [...]
BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 20th December – 4th Sunday of Advent Christmas Eve & Christmas Day Sunday 27th December – 1st Sunday of Christmas For more information about anything in this Bulletin contact the Vicar Items for inclusion in next week’s Benefice Bulletin by Friday please Vicar: The Rev’d Henry Heath, Wormingford [...]
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word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe and an old friend recall their days in the classroom JOHN calls for me, and we drive a couple of miles to see the latest metamorphosis of our village school. It is raw cold, with bouts of glory in the sky, receding rain, and pure streaks of [...]
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Thoughts from the Vicarage Recently, I read a book called The Purpose of Christmas by Rick Warren and I thought you might like to read this edited extract…. Christmas is a party. Specifically, it’s a birthday party – for Jesus – and birthdays are meant to be celebrated. It’s why we say “Merry [...]
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word from Wormingford Ronald Bythe pays a visit to the ‘holy land of Walsinghame’ ADVENT. The adventurous Creator enters his own creation. Antony, my gentle friend from the north, arrives in the east. Where shall we go this time? It is his turn to point the route. The weather is a yellow-grey kind [...]
word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe helps a friend to plan an orchard HAVING lunch at the art gallery before the lecture, out of the blue, as it were, the old friend mentioned that her great-grandfather was Joseph Severn. On an autumn day in 1820, Severn had boarded the Maria Crowther with John Keats [...]
BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 13th December –3rd Sunday of Advent For more information about anything in this Bulletin contact the Vicar Items for inclusion in next week’s Benefice Bulletin by Friday please Vicar: The Rev’d Henry Heath, Wormingford Vicarage CO6 3AZ ( 01 787 227398 email:vicar@wormingford.com See your parish website: [...]
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