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An Easter Message
Father Jeff sends this message in the 2025 Easter Card, which is being delivered to households across the parish: Dear Friends, Jesus`...
Christopher Williams
Mar 282 min read
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A Christmas Message
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...
Christopher Williams
Dec 21, 20243 min read
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Remembrance
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...
Christopher Williams
Nov 8, 20242 min read
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'Think All A Mother Should Be. She Was That'
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...
Christopher Williams
Sep 6, 20242 min read
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Our New Assistant Priest
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...
Christopher Williams
May 10, 20242 min read
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Pastoral Letter for Lent from Fr. Jeff
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...
Christopher Williams
Feb 16, 20242 min read
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Pastoral Letter for the Coronation
My dear Friends, "Be thy head anointed. Be thy heart anointed. Be thy hands anointed." These will be the words which the Archbishop of ...
Christopher Williams
May 5, 20233 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 24th February 2023
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...
Christopher Williams
Feb 24, 20234 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 16th December 2022
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...
Christopher Williams
Dec 16, 20226 min read
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Remembrance Sunday
"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...
Chris Williams
Nov 12, 20222 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 7 October 2022
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...
Chris Williams
Oct 8, 20224 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 16 September 2022
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...
Chris Williams
Sep 16, 20225 min read
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Commemorating Her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II at St Mary's
Dear Friends, The reality is sinking in. Someone who has been so familiar, so fundamental to our lives, someone who has been so integral...
Chris Williams
Sep 10, 20222 min read
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A Pastoral Letter on the Passing of Her Majesty
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...
Chris Williams
Sep 9, 20223 min read
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A Prayer for Her Majesty, Elizabeth, lately our Queen
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...
Chris Williams
Sep 9, 20221 min read
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Father Jeff's Pastoral Letter for the Platinum Jubilee and Pentecost
My dear Friends, Happy Jubilee and Pentecost Weekend! Believe it or not I am missing you all greatly since going away on Sabbatical a...
Chris Williams
Jun 3, 20225 min read
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Father Jeff sends you a Holy Week Invitation
Dear Friends, In the early Church, even before the stories familiar to us in the Gospels were written down, Christians used to gather...
Chris Williams
Apr 9, 20222 min read
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A message from Father Jeff as we approach Passion Week 2022
Dear God, "Welcome to Hell." That is what I saw on the television a few days ago, painted onto a concrete block on the outskirts of Kyiv....
Chris Williams
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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A 'Thank You' from Father Jeff
Dear Friends, You may remember that last week I wrote to you sharing some of the thanksgivings made by those who have been part of this...
Chris Williams
Mar 25, 20223 min read
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Father Jeff shares a message for this troubled week
Dear Lord, It has not been the best week for us here on earth. I am really hoping that you know that already, otherwise the world would...
Chris Williams
Mar 11, 20223 min read
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