BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 4th April – Easter Sunday 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, [...]
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word from Wormingford As Lent continues, Ronald Blythe sees signs of spring “FOR, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come…” This is what I had had carved on the tomb of the artist John Nash. Lichen [...]
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BENEFICE BULLETIN For more information about anything in this Bulletin contact the VicarItems 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, www.littlehorkesley.com or www.mountbures.com Services for [...]
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word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe listens to the song of a dryad of the trees TWO mighty songs this week: the Benedicite, and the nightingale’s — the latter on tape, for the singer is not yet due. But they disturb the universe. Each year I say the same thing: “We now have the Benedicite instead [...]
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Thoughts from the Vicarage… At 11:00 am on Sunday 25th of April, the Bishop of Colchester is coming to our Benefice again to confirm four more candidates from our Parishes. As three of them attend Mount Bures church, that’s where he will hold the service. There will be no other services in the Benefice that [...]
BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 21st March – 5th Sunday in Lent 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, www.littlehorkesley.com [...]
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word from Wormingford Do not spare that tree, Ronald Blythe tells the woodman TWO young Mancunian executioners arrive at the door, sweetly smiling, as executioners do. They wave the warrant in my face. See, my signature. The oak stump must die. For too long it has put out tentative approaches to the farm generator, [...]
Thoughts from the Vicarage… Last month, I wrote about Lent and suggested that you might like to give up something during this period to remind yourself how much Jesus gave up for us. This month, I want to write about Easter. Christmas is the most popular festival in the Christian year supported, as it is, [...]
BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 14th March – Mothering Sunday (Lent 4) 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 [...]
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word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe hears an old story, told out of season IN THE bitter February churchyard the dead retell their tales as I pass. It is bitter cold. Maybe it is the fat snowflakes that throw Gordon’s story out of season. The little Lanes captain, having marched all through the Western Desert, is [...]
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