We celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany on Sunday, recalling the visit to the infant Jesus by wise men from the East and the manifestation to the world of Christ – sent to be Saviour of all people, as Andrea highlighted in her sermon. Clare sang some lovely hymns for us,… read more >>
Dear All Today we celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany. Always a good celebration, we had a lovely service, enhanced by Clare singing two of my favourite hymns beautifully! The Thursday morning Said Eucharist will resume this Thursday 7th January 10am. I will forward the YouTube recording of this morning’s… read more >>
Our service on Advent IV followed the theme of ‘Preparing‘ and we in St Andrew’s have, for some time, been preparing for our services over the Christmas period thus we were pleased that even in the latest lockdown rules we were able to open for a Carol Service on Christmas… read more >>
Dear All This morning we celebrated the first Sunday of Christmas and the feast of St Stephen which was yesterday. Unfortunately, we no longer have Laura but Gail had recorded the communion settings and Gordon played the hymns unaccompanied so we did have some music to raise our spirits. I… read more >>
Dear All Happy Christmas! We had a very small gathering for our Christmas Eucharist this morning – sadly, reflective of the times we are in. However, the celebration of this most holy festival was very special. Laura sang beautifully enhancing the music, liturgy and sacrament. Together we were able to… read more >>
Our service on Advent IV followed the theme of ‘Preparing‘ having over the last three Sundays had themes of Hoping, Waiting and Fearing. Preparing was the subject of the sermon where Andrea said that there has been considerable criticism levelled at the government that we were insufficiently prepared for this… read more >>
Dear All This has been the most extraordinary Advent! Now with further restrictions coming into place it feels like we are going backwards in this pandemic! But as we all know, nothing stays the same for ever, so take heart, there is light at the end of the tunnel! The winter… read more >>