Palm Sunday Services 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 Holy Week Services Maundy Thursday (5th): Communion & Strip Altar 7:00 pm WF Good Friday (6th): Matins & Litany 11:00 am WF An Hour [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – Palm Sunday – April 1st
Why did Jesus have to die – did God get it wrong? No – All things work together for good to them that love God (Romans 8:28) To demonstrate this, I’ve got an interesting little story for you….. A king, who didn’t believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in every and [...]
Continue reading about Thoughts from the Vicarage… April 2012
IT IS not uncommon for old village men to go to God in pairs, so as to have a mite of company on that last journey. This week, Harold and Roger left together. The curtains drawn for afternoon television will be opened. Harold was my oldest village friend. His garden had been his wife’s despair [...]
Continue reading about Word from Wormingford by Ronald Blythe – 23/03/2012
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 # = 1662 Palm Sunday Services 8:00 am Holy Communion # LH 9:15 am Family Service MB 11:00 am Family Service WF [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – 5th Sunday in Lent – 25thMarch
Ronald Blythe goes out for the milk, and enjoys the wind and rain IT IS easy to miss it all, the outside. If it is too wet, you will miss the sharp March rain on your skin. If it is too blowy, you will miss the March birds riding the thermals. How many springs do [...]
Services for Today 9:15 am Family Service MB 11:00 am Family Service WF 11:00 am Family Service LH 6:30 pm Evening Service + Holy Communion # LH # = 1662 Next Sunday (26th) 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 – Mothering Sunday – 4th Sunday in Lent – 18th March
Ronald Blythe points out the unity between art and prayer LEAP year. The study window wide to the sun, the white cat upside down to its warmth, the nesting birds bouncing over the new grass. At St Edmundsbury, we are creating the Edmund centre for arts and theology. Art and theology are in¬div¬is¬ible, of course, [...]
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 Mothering Sunday 9:15 am Family Service MB 11:00 am Family Service WF 11:00 am Family Service LH 6:30 pm Evening Service + [...]
Continue reading about BENEFICE BULLETIN – 3rd of Lent – 11th March
Word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe finds a healing quality in time spent alone LENT again. “Know that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” “Rose dust”, Edward FitzGerald said in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, taking the sting out of it. I do not fast: I read sad authors. I meditate on being [...]
