word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe muses on lambs in the fields and the Lamb of God EACH year, I alternate the Sundays after Easter with sermons on Emmaus and the image of the Lamb. So this year it is Shepherd Sunday, the divine pastoral. All week, expensive altar lilies have been trumpeting their deathliness, and [...]
Sunday 25th April – 4th Sunday of Easter 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, [...]
Ronald Blythe thanks God fervently for his inestimable love RETURNING from Mary’s funeral feast at the Thatcher’s Arms, we see Mark drilling. Today’s thin April ram and yesterday’s warm April sun give a two-tone surface to the seedbed. The drill doesn’t have to miss Shoals, the saucer dip, which would have been a shallow pond [...]
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Ronald Blythe regrets turning out one of his bookcases IS IT not a fact that when a bookcase is emptied out upon the floor its contents double in volume? Such tall unsteady piles. I sit among them, regretting my folly. It was the local-history bookcase, and Suffolk had wandered up into Norfolk, and Essex into [...]
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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 or www.mountbures.com Today’s Services [...]
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word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe reflects on the reuniting of two poets ON A day of quite exceptional political shenanigans came the quiet statement that Ted Hughes is to be memorialised in Poets’ Corner. He and I took part in a wonderful event there: the inclusion of John Clare, this country’s finest rural voice. It [...]
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