Ronald Blythe looks up at clouds in a cerulean sky
A JOHN CONSTABLE morning. Cumulus clouds heap up on each other, then break to allow the blue to appear in a vast restlessness. He insisted that the sky was the keynote to the land, colourfully speaking.
I see him striding over the hill towards his uncle’s farm [...]
word from Wormingford
Ronald Blythe finds that his chickens are coming home to roost
COLD May mornings. None the less, the white cat has deserted the warm kitchen for a mossy wall. There she lies, smelling bluebells, hearing larks, imagining — what? Best not to ask. We ask, of course, since it is Rogation.
Once upon a time, [...]
BENEFICE BULLETIN
Sunday 16th of May – 7th 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
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www.wormingford.com, www.littlehorkesley.com or www.mountbures.com
Services for today
9:15 am Family Communion [...]
The ritual in which Ronald Blythe partakes stays in his mind
YESTERDAY, the Bishop of Colchester arrived to confirm four young people at Mount Bures. Spring rain. Spring sunshine. Everyone dressed up and looking rather beautiful. Six churchwardens from our three parishes walk before the Bishop, and I, as his chaplain, trail behind him. A slow, [...]
