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Holocaust Memorial Day Caring for God’s World From the Vicar – caring for God’s World Facing both ways Blotting my copy book New Year’s Honours New or Old What are you supposed to be doing? Enjoy each day as it comes The Lord’s Prayer and you in 2020 ** Editor:  The Rev Paul Hardingham on...

Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. One of the disturbing questions that arises from the horrors of the Holocaust is ‘where was God when the six million died?’ In his moving memoir, ‘Night,’ Eli Wiesel tells the story of an execution that the...

The National Trust was founded in January 1895, 125 years ago, to ‘promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest and as regards lands for their natural aspect features, animal and plant life.’ This concern for our world raises an important question...

January gets its name from the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions, of gates and doorways. Traditionally Janus had two faces, one looking to the past and one to the future. It reminds us that as we start a new year we can look back to the past with gratitude and to...

Do you remember the start of term at school, when you were given new exercise books to write in? I loved the feel of those books that were still unworn and unspoilt.  I would try to write my name and the subject on the front page with my very best handwriting. This wasn’t easy, as...

We are all familiar with the Queen’s New Year honours list, which celebrates peoples’ significant contributions in life. But what would God’s New Year honours list look like? Who are the people He chooses to honour? Psalm 1 gives us an answer to these questions. The person who is blessed by God is compared to...

It’s a new year so let’s talk about ‘old’ and ‘new.’ Which do you prefer? Presumably the young men and women dancing in the freezing water of a fountain in Trafalgar Square think it’s exciting. Give it a few weeks and they’ll find it’s no different from last year or the one before. Its only...

Is there something that God may be asking of you? Gladys Aylward was just a simple woman who did what she believed God called her to do.  The old movie, ‘The Inn of the Sixth Happiness’ tells her life story.  In 1920 she sailed to China, where eventually she opened a home for orphaned children,...

Is your diary for 2020 already filling up?  That is fine, but also bear in mind what has been called ‘the sacrament of the present moment.’ That is what the 17th century French Jesuit and spiritual writer Pere Jean-Pierre de Caussade called it.  He wrote:  The present moment holds infinite riches, but you will only...

I cannot pray ‘our’ if I am not in communion with fellow Christians. I cannot pray ‘Father’ if I do not treat Him as such, on a daily basis. I cannot pray ‘Who are in Heaven” if all my interests are on earthly things. I cannot pray ‘hallowed by thy name’ if I am not...

Experience the Joy of Advent For to Us a Child is Born How to help someone who is lonely this Christmas From the Vicar Christmas – the most beautiful story ever told The best present ever! Wake up! It’s Christmas! Trusting God in all things THE WAY I SEE IT:  Protecting the Innocent  ** Editor: ...

‘Fear not: for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.’  Luke 2:10 Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before Christmas.  The word ‘Advent’ is from the Latin word ‘adventus’ meaning ’coming’.  Sometimes called ‘Little Lent’, it’s a time to prepare our hearts for the future Second Coming,...