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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Oct 8, 20214 min read
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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...
Chris Williams
Oct 6, 20215 min read
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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...
Chris Williams
Sep 25, 20217 min read
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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...
Chris Williams
Sep 17, 20215 min read
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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,...
Emily Bainbridge
Sep 3, 202110 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Aug 27, 20216 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Aug 20, 20218 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Aug 14, 20216 min read
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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...
Chris Williams
Aug 7, 20217 min read
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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...
Chris Williams
Aug 2, 20217 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Jul 23, 202110 min read
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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,...
Emily Bainbridge
Jul 16, 202111 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Jul 9, 20219 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Jul 2, 20219 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Jun 25, 20218 min read
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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...
Emily Bainbridge
Jun 18, 20215 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 11th June
My Dear Friends It was over thirty years ago when a friend introduced me to the novels of Barbara Pym. To be honest, at first I found...
Emily Bainbridge
Jun 11, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 4th June
My dear Friends, This past year has perhaps aged us all, but I recently realised that it is approaching half a century since I first...
Emily Bainbridge
Jun 4, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 28th May
My dear friends, I rejoiced yesterday the 27th May, as perhaps you did, to find that details of the concerts for this year’s BBC Proms...
Emily Bainbridge
May 28, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 21st May
Last Sunday, when we celebrated the Ascension of Christ, was a culmination. This coming Sunday, the feast of Pentecost, is a commencing....
Emily Bainbridge
May 21, 20216 min read
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