BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 1st August – 9th after Trinity 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: www.wormingford.com, [...]
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Ronald Blythe mourns the loss of a knowledgeable dean SUMMER rain. It falls, not for minutes, but for hours, beating the borders into submission, knocking the hollyhocks for six, dashing the scent from the roses. At first, it leaps up from the hard earth, but soon it penetrates. Its noise is like a distant army [...]
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: www.wormingford.com, www.littlehorkesley.com or www.mountbures.com Services for [...]
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Ronald Blythe compares a hot week in Britain with one in Calcutta TRINITY FIVE gone, and the July sun maintains its precedence. The windows are wide all night, and the old roses begin to fall. Rosa Mundi, York, and Lancaster, and the species which have left my head are adrift. This is the week I [...]
BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 18th July – 7th Sunday of Trinity 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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word from Wormingford Veterans join a soldier-martyr in church again, Ronald Blythe reports THE summer beats down. Birds call in the wood. The clickety-clack of Duncan’s old haymaker ceases, like all human endeavours in Ecclesiastes, and is followed by an interesting silence. All the old roses are in full sway. William Lobb, John Clare, and [...]
Ronald Blythe listens to the sounds of a hot, still summer’s day A PEERLESS summer day. A little figure, sexless at this distance, whirls an ancient haymaker around on the slope. Its click-clatter joins that of my old typewriter. Once, a pair of youthful electricians paused in their work to tell each other, “Listen, [...]
Ronald Blythe reflects on the colour blue in life and in the Bible “BEAUTIFUL hymns,” says Barry appreciatively, as a score or so of them drift from matins. They will come and go all week as he trims the churchyard, as hymns do. His favourite hymn is St Bernard’s “Jesu, the very thought of [...]
