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...

James Martin of The Woodland Trust is just one voice in the many that encourages us all to think about using a carbon footprint...

After the excitement of the November Armistice and four long years of war the contents of the Parish Magazines returned very quickly to norm

Last Sunday Sarah Wilson spoke about the work of Mission for Vision, one of the charities that we, as a church, supports. She told us...

St Mary's has achieved the Eco Church Silver Award! Well done team, this is great news. I'd like to copy the email received from Eco...

Have you heard about ‘The Great Big Green Week’? This a national week of community action from the 10th to the 18th of June to tackle...

As I sit and write this I am wondering how my old lawn mower is going to cope with the first cut of our lawn after it has gone wild...

With June just around the corner I thought I would flag up The Wildlife Trusts 30 Days Wild initiative. 30 days wild is The Wildlife...

Thank you to Diana Wells for passing on an article headed “Beauty that’s more than skin deep” from the Fairtrade Foundation. Apparently,...

In celebration of Sir David Attenborough’s 97th birthday that is being celebrated this week I offer you two of his wonderful and very...

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...

For many years the “Ancient Chest”, so-called by local historian Ted Morris in the 1980s, has sat unobtrusively in a dark corner of St...

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...