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Pastoral Letter - 21st August
Dear Friends, John Chapter 20 verses 1-10 (specifically verses 6 & 7) "He saw the linen wrappings laying there and the cloth which had...
Emily Bainbridge
Aug 21, 20208 min read


Friday 21st August - Icon of the Day
‘Living Water who refreshes our weariness Bathes and washes and cleanses our wounds Be for us always A fountain of life, And for all the...
Chris Williams
Aug 20, 20201 min read


Thursday 20th August - Icon of the Day
‘Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap, because the measure you measure out with be...
Chris Williams
Aug 19, 20201 min read


Wednesday 19th August - Icon of the Day
‘When you leave behind a chapter of your life, with no way of return, providence also moves, moves towards you with gifts’ *** Image:...
Chris Williams
Aug 18, 20201 min read


Tuesday 18th August - Icon of the Day
‘God of all truth, You are truth itself, and therefore truth is not an idea or a concept but first of all a life, an energy, a love, a...
Chris Williams
Aug 17, 20202 min read


Monday 17th August - Icon of the Day
‘He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despair,...
Chris Williams
Aug 16, 20201 min read


Sunday 16th August - Icon of the Day
‘God appears to be resurrecting everything all the time and everywhere. It is not something ‘to believe in’ as much as it is something to...
Chris Williams
Aug 15, 20201 min read


Saturday 15th August - Icon of the Day
‘We have avoided the scandal of the Incarnation to avoid God in His most distressing disguise’ Mother Theresa *** Image: ‘Christ Child’...
Chris Williams
Aug 14, 20201 min read


Pastoral Letter - 14th August
Dear Friends, Interestingly, for me at least, the gospel set for the last Sunday when churches were allowed to meet to pray and praise...
Emily Bainbridge
Aug 14, 20207 min read


Friday 14th August - Icon of the Day
‘God comes to us disguised as our life’ Paula d’Arcy *** Image: ‘Experimental’ Photo: Peter Klashorst, 2007, used under the Creative...
Chris Williams
Aug 13, 20201 min read


Thursday 13th August - Icon of the Day
‘Love has you. Love is you. Love alone, and your deep need for love, recognises love everywhere else. Remember that you already are what...
Chris Williams
Aug 12, 20201 min read


Wednesday 12th August - Icon of the Day
‘Sustain me, O Lord, According to Your promise That I may live: Let me not be disappointed In my hope’ Psalm 119 *** Image: ‘Woman...
Chris Williams
Aug 11, 20201 min read


Tuesday 11th August - Icon of the Day
‘I am all at once what Christ is Since He was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd Patch, matchwood, immortal diamond Is...
Chris Williams
Aug 10, 20201 min read


Monday 10th August - Icon of the Day
All night prayer of St Francis of Assisi: ‘Who are you, O God, and who am I?’ *** Image: Stone carving, Iona Abbey, Scotland Photo:...
Chris Williams
Aug 9, 20201 min read


Sunday 9th August - Icon of the Day
The most common word for worship in the Greek New Testament is ‘proskuneo’ which means, ‘to come forward to kiss. *** Image: Bonsai...
Chris Williams
Aug 8, 20201 min read


Saturday 8th August – Icon of the Day
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,...
Chris Williams
Aug 7, 20202 min read


Pastoral Letter - 7th August
Dear Friends, Yesterday was the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Matthew Chapter 16 verses 13-23. The Collect: Father in Heaven,...
Emily Bainbridge
Aug 7, 20208 min read


Friday 7th August – Icon of the Day
‘When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms’ From...
Chris Williams
Aug 6, 20201 min read


Thursday 6th August – Icon of the Day
‘And that’s what our religion says to us—that Good Friday may occupy the throne for a day, but ultimately it must give way to the...
Chris Williams
Aug 5, 20201 min read


Wednesday 5th August – Icon of the Day
‘If you think where you are is boring, it’s because you haven’t woken its soul’ Rilke *** Image: Hafnarstræti, Reykjavík, Iceland,...
Chris Williams
Aug 4, 20201 min read
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