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Emily Bainbridge
Oct 22, 20218 min read
Pastoral Letter - 22nd October
Dear Friends, (Though perhaps it should read "Dear Friend," nowadays, as I don’t know how many still read this!) "Do you believe in God?"...
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Emily Bainbridge
Oct 15, 20217 min read
Pastoral Letter - 15th October 2021
My dear friends, Many of you will have seen on the news recently that Andrew Davies, the leader of the Tories in Wales, has decided to...
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Emily Bainbridge
Oct 8, 20214 min read
Pastoral Letter - 8th October
Dear Friends, Last Sunday we celebrated two special things: at 11.30am we hosted the Civic Service as the Mayor, Council and...
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Chris Williams
Oct 6, 20215 min read
Pastoral Letter - 1st October
Dear Lord, For weeks, or rather months now, I have been writing letters to the parishioners of St Mary’s Twickenham and indeed to anyone...
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Chris Williams
Sep 25, 20217 min read
Pastoral Letter - 24th September
Please read below of possible problems accessing the church on Sunday morning 26th September, due to The High Tide event in Church...
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Chris Williams
Sep 17, 20211 min read
A Year of Icons
Our post on Easter Sunday 2021 marked the completion of a year of bringing you an 'Icon of the Day' compiled by Dr Katherine Cox for...
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Chris Williams
Sep 17, 20215 min read
Pastoral Letter - 17th September
Dear Friends, On Tuesday of this week there was a Concert in church to celebrate the life of HOWARD GREENWOOD, one of the founders of the...
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Emily Bainbridge
Sep 12, 20215 min read
Pastoral Letter - 10th September
Dear Friends, It was marvellous to see around 100 of you back in church last Sunday and as those who were there may recall my saying, as...
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Emily Bainbridge
Sep 3, 202110 min read
Pastoral Letter - 3rd September
Dear Friends, As we prepare to return to church this coming Sunday for our 9.30am Parish Eucharist, first come with me down an imagined,...
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Emily Bainbridge
Aug 27, 20216 min read
Pastoral Letter - 27th August
Dear Friends, I know that some of you may think I may have lost what few priestly marbles I might have, but may I ask you to forget for a...
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Emily Bainbridge
Aug 20, 20218 min read
Pastoral Letter - 20th August
My Dear Friends, I stayed there overnight for the first time thirty years ago this month, but it had been a place I had been aware of...
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Emily Bainbridge
Aug 14, 20216 min read
Pastoral Letter - 13th August
My dear friends, Were I ever to write a novel, were I ever to devote a couple of years of my life to a narrative, I have been wondering...
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Chris Williams
Aug 7, 20217 min read
Pastoral Letter - 6th August 2021
I wasn’t anticipating writing any more of these letters, as you know, but recently we have lost two friends: one female, one male; one a...
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Chris Williams
Aug 2, 20217 min read
Pastoral Letter - 30th July
My dear Friends, Most of us had anticipated a return to church for worship by now and therefore an end of these letters. However, for...
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Emily Bainbridge
Jul 23, 202110 min read
Pastoral Letter - 23rd July
My dear Friends, In Morris West’s novel, "The Shoes of the Fisherman", Pope Kiril contemplates the very real possibility of the end of...
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Emily Bainbridge
Jul 16, 202111 min read
Pastoral Letter - 16th July
My dear Friends, I hope that all is well with you. I am not sure if I have said this sufficiently frequently recently, but you are all,...
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Emily Bainbridge
Jul 8, 20219 min read
Pastoral Letter - 9th July
My Dear Friends, I was so impressed and inspired last year when you wrote to me of the areas of life you identified as being things for...
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Emily Bainbridge
Jul 1, 20219 min read
Pastoral Letter - 2nd July
Read below for Jeff’s last Pastoral Letter of the Pandemic, before the sequence of three, based on your contributions..... My dear...
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Emily Bainbridge
Jun 25, 20218 min read
Pastoral Letter - 25th June
My dear Friends, Murders have kept me going this past year. Perhaps I should clarify.... I have derived delight, and distraction from the...
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Emily Bainbridge
Jun 17, 20215 min read
Pastoral Letter - 18th June
My dear Friends, There is an intriguing sequence of scenes in the second of the celebrated series called The Crown, where the two Houses...
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