Services for Today 9:15 am Family Communion MB 11:00 am Parish Communion # WF 11:00 am Morning Service # LH 6:30 pm Evening Service # LH #=1662 Next Sunday 8:00 am Holy Communion # LH 9:15 am Family Service MB 11:00 am Family Service WF 11:00 am Morning Service # LH 6:30 pm Evening Service [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – 6th Sunday after Trinity (Proper 13) 31st July
A village school is to fall silent for ever, says Ronald Blythe OUR village school is about to shut its doors after 170 years. It is a strange event. Thirteen children. Glowing OFSTEDs. Glorious scenery. Reluctant parents. Victorian Gothic. I was a governor for ages, and an occasional storyteller. Cars bumped their way to it [...]
Services for Today 8:00 am Holy Communion # WF 9:15 am Parish Communion # MB 11:00 am Morning Service # WF 11:00 am Parish Communion # LH 6:30 pm Evening Service # LH Next Sunday 9:15 am Family Communion MB 11:00 am Parish Communion # WF 11:00 am Morning Service # LH 6:30 pm Evening [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – 5th Sunday after Trinity (Proper 12) 24th July
Ronald Blythe enjoys a quiet moment at the entrance to his tent THE conclusion of a Christian day. The still-fierce sun drains the light from the altar candles. They waver, pale and milky. The heavy presence of summer flowers. The giant oaken knight and his successive oaken wives raise imploring stumps. Ora pro nobis. The [...]
Services for Today 9:15 am Family Communion MB 11:00 am Family Communion WF 11:00 am Morning Service # LH 6:30 pm Evening Service + HC # LH # = 1662 Next Sunday 8:00 am Holy Communion # WF 9:15 am Parish Communion # MB 11:00 am Morning Service # WF 11:00 am Parish Communion # [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – 4th Sunday of Trinity (Proper 11) – 17th July
Services for Today 8:00 am Holy Communion # WF 9:15 am Parish Communion # MB 11:00 am Morning Service # WF 11:00 am Family Service LH 6:30 pm Evening Service # LH Next Sunday 9:15 am Family Communion MB 11:00 am Family Communion WF 11:00 am Morning Service # LH 6:30 pm Evening Service+HC # [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – 3rd Sunday of Trinity (Proper 10)
Ronald Blythe prepares for a thunderstorm that never comes IT MUST end tonight, they decreed, the great heat; so I sat in the garden to watch it vanish in a thunderclap. The preliminaries were all that one could wish for. The sun went down in a sulky glory. The landscape went dark. The trees became [...]
Ronald Blythe sits in the stillness of a Meeting House THE drought has vanished, and the wheat on the dipping field doesn’t look half bad. It has taken its normal midsummer blue-green colour, and has what scripture calls “fatness”. Immense clouds sail over it, plus a snowy glider or two. Sudden showers, hot sunshine, movement [...]
Ronald Blythe thinks back to an older style of children’s education AND so it has come to pass. St Andrew’s Church of England Prim¬ary School, Wormingford, has ceased to be. For a year or so, it bragged about being the smallest school in the county — 13 pupils — which would have made the edu¬cation [...]
Continue reading about Word from Wormingford 24th June, 2011
