Services for Today 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 # LH # = 1662 Next Sunday 8:00 am Holy Communion # WF 9:15 am Parish Communion # MB 11:00 am Morning Service # WF 11:00 [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – 3rd Sunday before Lent – February 5th
Ronald Blythe tries to imagine the voices of preachers long gone I WAS about to describe what happens to me when I drift into imaginative notions about the incumbents board in church, when someone on the radio, talking about his introduction to music as a choirboy, called an old church “a resonant chamber”. But I [...]
Continue reading about Word from Wormingford 27th February 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – Presentation of Christ in the Temple – 29th January
Ronald Blythe waits in the dark and cold for the sun to rise THE weatherman proclaims an amazing sunrise. I cannot recall him saying this before. At the moment, the window frames total darkness. It is 6 a.m. Not a person to miss a touch of glory, however, I keep my eye on the outside. [...]
Continue reading about Word from Wormingford – 20th January, 2012
Thoughts from the Vicarage… February brings with it St Valentine’s Day on February 14th and, traditionally, this is the day when young couples promise to love each other for ever and begin to make wedding plans. The Prayerbook tells us that: “Marriage is a gift of God in creation through which husband and wife may [...]
Thoughts from the Vicarage… Happy New Year. New Year’s Day heralds a new year and a new start for everyone so it is fitting that the Church celebrates a new start for Jesus at the beginning of our year. We celebrated his birth on Christmas Day and the coming of the three kings 12 days [...]
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 Benefice Patronal Songs of Praise 6:30 pm Lt Horkesley Next Sunday 9:15 am Family Communion MB 11:00 am Parish Communion # WF 11:00 am Morning Service # LH [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – Conversion of St Paul (transferred) – 22nd January
Confinement can often bring inspiration, says Ronald Blythe I AM reading Montaigne. My ivory tower is a square Tudor room that stares east. Low-ceilinged, clogged with books, it is where I am happiest. The spring-in-winter days breed roses. They look through the window. I look out at the steep hill. The quietness rather than the [...]
Continue reading about Word from Wormingford – 13th January 2012
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 + Holy Ccommunion # 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 – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany – 15th January
Ronald Blythe passes on some guidance about prayer JOACHIM, the Jewish doctor from the Berlin synagogue, kindly drives me to the Midnight, and is transfixed by Wormingford Church, a medieval stone lantern whose fretted brilliance glitters over the parked cars. Back at the old farmhouse, his Hanukkah candles will waver in the window as part [...]
Continue reading about Word from Wormingford – 6th January, 2012
