Earth from Apollo 11, July 1969. NASA photo. My dear Friends, I do hope that you had an enjoyable time over recent weeks and that you feel refreshed in your relationships with those who sustain and support you. I also hope that there has been a relief from the usual patterns and a chance to do new things. One of the things I was able to do when all the Christmas services were finally over, was to watch some television. Not that I found much I wanted to see on the usual channe

Having spoken with some for whom the Christmas story is almost an irrelevance, totally unconnected with the realities they face in their lives, as authentic as a favourite Christmas film, I have tried to look at the story of Jesus' birth in a fresh way, to see what connections may be in Jesus' story which resonates with ours. I believe that part of the wonder of what we celebrate is the very real sense that God indeed comes into the reality of the lives we and others are livi

My dear Friends, It probably has been so before, but reading aloud the gospel which speaks of Jesus' final days as I did on Palm Sunday...

Father Jeff sends this message in the 2025 Easter Card, which is being delivered to households across the parish: Dear Friends, Jesus`...

Father Jeff shares a message. .. My dear Friends, As we prepare to celebrate Jesus' birth and then embark upon a new year, I have asked...

Dear Friends, "War has a way of distinguishing the things which matter and the things which don't." It was a line I heard recently in a...

My Dear Friends, "Think all a mother should be, she was that." As I mentioned to those of you who were at church last Sunday, this is...

Father Jeff introduces you to The Reverend Donna McDowell... 'We are soon to be joined by a new Assistant Priest who will also act as...

And so we begin the great journey though Lent to Holy Week and Easter. As those of you who were there will recall, on Ash Wednesday you...

My dear Friends, "Be thy head anointed. Be thy heart anointed. Be thy hands anointed." These will be the words which the Archbishop of ...

Dear Friends, As some of you may have heard me say on Sunday, I couldn’t sleep one night last week and was flicking through Instagram...

My Dear Friends, The copies of the Bible which I have in my home are all rather old and battered. Some are centuries old, some I have had...

"We shall Remember them." Father Jeff writes: This year we have three main events which knit us to the lives of those who died in the two...

Dear Friends, What if it is true, all this God malarkey: the fact that some energy of love wanted to share the experience of existing and...

Dear Friends, What a week we are coming to the conclusion of. Her late Majesty`s coffin has been taken from Balmoral to Holyrood, from...

Dear Friends, The reality is sinking in. Someone who has been so familiar, so fundamental to our lives, someone who has been so integral...

My dear friends, Yesterday, 8th September, an era of our nation’s life came to an end, with the death of Elizabeth the Second. But as...

Lord of Lords and King of Kings, We give thanks for the life of Her Majesty, Elizabeth, lately our Queen: For her example, humility And...

My dear Friends, Happy Jubilee and Pentecost Weekend! Believe it or not I am missing you all greatly since going away on Sabbatical a...

Dear Friends, In the early Church, even before the stories familiar to us in the Gospels were written down, Christians used to gather...