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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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Pastoral Letter - 14th May
One of the many minor irritations of lockdown for me personally has been not being able to take my carriage clock to the clocksmiths to...
Emily Bainbridge
May 14, 20218 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 7th May
"This is the work of God: that you believe in the one whom He has sent." (John Chapter 6 verses 29) My dear friends, As this coming...
Emily Bainbridge
May 7, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 30th April
Last week as we commemorated St George, Patron Saint of the English, we thought about a land of shopkeepers. Today, in order to balance...
Emily Bainbridge
Apr 30, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - St George's Day
Dear Friends, To those of you who identify as English, I wish you a happy St George’s Day, though I am advised that it was the Scottish...
Emily Bainbridge
Apr 23, 20219 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 16th April
My dear Friends, This past week the Government in England relaxed certain restrictions caused by the Covid Pandemic and allowed people to...
Chris Williams
Apr 17, 20217 min read
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HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Whose Coat of Arms included the words: "GOD IS MY HELP." We were told by the media on Easter Day that Her Majesty the Queen and His ...
Chris Williams
Apr 11, 20214 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 9th April
My dear Friends, Especially those of you who are still reading these letters a year after I first started sending them! A Happy and...
Emily Bainbridge
Apr 9, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 1st April
Dear Friends, I was reading something this past week which Stanislavski, the Russian dramatist and thinker, wrote: "The longest and most...
Chris Williams
Apr 5, 20218 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 26th March
Dear Friends, I remember when I was Curate at St Mary’s Church, in the Old Town, Eastbourne, getting a ‘phone call from one of the...
Emily Bainbridge
Mar 26, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 19th March
Dear Friends, I understand and accept that people die, but I wish one could still ’phone them. There are friends who died years ago whom...
Emily Bainbridge
Mar 19, 20216 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 12th March
My Dear Friends, It is Mothering Sunday in a couple of days’ time, which is also known in the Church as Refreshment Sunday. As you will...
Emily Bainbridge
Mar 12, 20217 min read
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Pastoral Letter - March 5th
Dear Friends, "In my Father’s House are many mansions." We are told that Jesus said this in John Chapter 14 v.1. Most of us probably...
Emily Bainbridge
Mar 5, 20219 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 26th February
Dear Friends, A few of you asked if I could refresh your memory about what I said in our Zoom Service on the First Sunday in Lent, which...
Emily Bainbridge
Feb 26, 20216 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 19th February
My dear Friends, "There are no atheists on the battlefield" they say and it seems that most of us pray at some point in our lives, even...
Emily Bainbridge
Feb 19, 20216 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 12th February
My dear Friends, With snow all around and lockdown still in place, perhaps like you, I have been thinking about Summer holidays! Some go...
Emily Bainbridge
Feb 12, 20216 min read
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(Non) Pastoral Letter - 5th February
My dear Captain Sir Tom, Last week I wrote to President Joe Biden, to encourage him to help change people’s experience of life in the...
Emily Bainbridge
Feb 5, 20214 min read
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(non) Pastoral Letter - 29th January
Dear Friends, I have been sending you weekly letters for ten months now. I hope you will allow me to take a break and write to someone...
Emily Bainbridge
Jan 29, 202110 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 22nd January
My Dear Friends, Given the history of the human race, it is we of course who are the exception in our ability to travel freely and...
Emily Bainbridge
Jan 22, 20218 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 15th January
My dear Friends, I am more sure than ever that Radio 3 is far better for your mental health and wellbeing than Radio 4, especially when...
Emily Bainbridge
Jan 15, 20217 min read
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