Happy New Year, Everybody Service for Today Benefice Service of Holy Communion 11:00 am # Wormingford Next Sunday 8:00 am Holy Communion # WF 9:15 am Parish Communion # MB 11:00 am Morning Service # WF 11:00 am Epiphany Fam Service LH 6:30 pm Evening Service # LH # = 1662 Your coming in [...]
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For Ronald Blythe, an apple brings to mind Christmases past NOT a madeleine, but a pale-yellow spotty apple from a Cornish garden. A fat cooker that no self-regarding supermarket would stock, but which, for me, belongs to the epulae (feast) shelf. A poet friend, James Turner, planted this apple long ago, made this garden, hid [...]
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Happy Christmas Everyone Christmas Eve 3:00 pm Candle-lit Crib Service MB 4:30 pm Candle-lit Crib Service LH 6:00 pm Candle-lit Crib Service WF Christmas Night 10:00 pm Christmas Communion # MB 11:30 pm Midnight Mass # WF Christmas Day 10:00 am Christmas Family Service WF 11:00 am Christmas Family Service LH Sunday after Christmas – [...]
Ronald Blythe is impressed by a poet’s entry into ‘heaven’ THE entrance of Ted Hughes to Poets’ Corner last week took me back to when he and I, and that remarkable Dean, Michael Mayne, himself a good writer, placed a memorial to John Clare in that crowded spot. After Clare, authors went up on the [...]
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Services for Today 11:00 am Holy Communion # WF 3:30 pm Carol Service MB 6:30 pm Carol Service WF 6:30 pm Carol Service LH # = 1662 Christmas Eve 3:00 pm Crib Service MB 4:30 pm Crib Service LH 6:00 pm Crib Service WF Christmas Night 10:00 pm Early Christmas Communion # MB 11:30 pm [...]
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Ronald Blythe is taken back in time by a whiff of turps and garlic THE historian or the naturalist views a place with maybe a knowledge that casts either a cloud or a brightness that even its residents lack. Thus myself shopping in Hadleigh, Suffolk (there is a Hadleigh, Essex), the day darkening because of [...]
Christingle Family Services 9:15 am on 4th December at Mount Bures 11:00 am on 4th December at Wormingford 11:00 am on 11th December at Little Horkesley Advent Carol Service 6:30 pm on 4th December at Lt Horkesley Sunday before Christmas (18th) 3:30 pm Lessons & Carols Service at Mt Bures 6:30 pm Lessons & Carols [...]
Services for Today 8:00 am Holy Communion # WF 9:15 am Parish Communion # MB 11:00 am Morning Service # WF 11:00 am Christingle Fam Service LH 6:30 pm Evening Service # LH Next Sunday 11:00 am Holy Communion # WF 3:30 pm Carol Service MB 6:30 pm Carol Service WF 6:30 pm Carol Service [...]
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We wait expectantly — but for whom?, asks Ronald Blythe ADVENT. Season of name-giving — and such names! Who giveth these names? Heaven only knows. Poets, saints, youths, ancient folk. What shall we call him? Adonaï — a name for God? Dayspring bright? Desire of nations? Key which opens what cannot be closed? Emmanuel, of [...]
Services for Today 8:00 am Holy Communion # LH 9:15 am Christingle Service MB 11:00 am Christingle Service WF 11:00 am Morning Service # LH Benefice Advent carol Service 6:30 pm Little Horkesley Next Sunday 8:00 am Holy Communion # WF 9:15 am Parish Communion # MB 11:00 am Morning Service # WF 11:0 0 [...]
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