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 8:00 am [...]
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Ronald Blythe is glad to see the scythe cut through the weeds MY NEIGHBOUR Jonathan Doe, “Hedgecutting Specialist”, is paying his destructive visit. And thank goodness, for the ancient farm-track is all but obliterated by growth. Tangles of weed had begun to hold hands over it, and sagging boughs to canopy above it. But [...]
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Ronald Blythe dreams of Newman, and a regimental dance I HAVE been re-reading John Henry Newman. What a peerless writer. It is his prose and poetry that qualify him for sainthood. He wrote his own epitaph — Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem —”From shadows and symbols into the truth”. Thus he joins [...]
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Sunday 15th August Feast of The Blessed Virgin Mary 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 [...]
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Ronald Blythe enjoys his proximity to two cathedrals IN DIOCESAN geography, I stand on the river-line between “my” two cathedrals — St James’s, at Bury St Edmunds, and St Mary the Virgin, St Peter, and St Cedd, at Chelmsford. Often, on Sunday mornings, as I announce the first hymn at our village matins, I [...]
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Thoughts from the Vicarage… It is more usual for me to look forward in my column but so much has happened over the last month that I want to look back …. On Saturday 10th July, we held another Fun Day at the church with a Dog Show, judged by Jodie Rutland MRCVS, parachuting teddies [...]
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BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 8th August – 10th 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, www.littlehorkesley.com or [...]
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Ronald Blythe is an appreciative guest at a summer wedding JULY. The hillside horses flesh their tales, the white cat bakes on the wall, her eyes emerald slits. The oaks haven’t the energy to rustle. All is burning and still. Using Roger Deacon’s inestimable gift, a lightweight scythe, I have demolished a patch of [...]
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