Pew Sheet, Sunday, 8th December 2024, The Second Sunday of Advent

You know it is getting close to Christmas when the lectionary starts to include Old Testament texts which have found their way into common consciousness...

Dec 08, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, 1st December 2024, Advent 1: Advent Sunday

If like me, you had been searching for a copyright-free image of an advent wreath this week, you would have found it hard to find one...

Dec 01, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, November 24th 2024,Kingdom Season 4, “Christ the King” Sunday next before Advent.

As a child, I attended a Roman Catholic Primary School where, on a Thursday morning, the local priest would say mass for both pupils and those parents who were able to stay...

Nov 24, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, November 17th 2024, Kingdom Season 3,  Safeguarding Sunday.

Many of you will have been following the distressing news which broke the week before last in respect of the findings of the Independent Inquiry...

Nov 17, 2024

November 10th 2024  Remembrance Sunday Kingdom Season 2

Apart from being ‘Armistice Day’, when I will be observing the traditional two minute silence and saying a few words about remembrance...

Nov 10, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, October 27th 2024. Last Sunday after Trinity, Proper 25

Our Old Testament reading is attributed to Jeremiah, whose book (in spite of the often negative or pessimistic associations made with his name...

Oct 27, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, November 3rd 2024. All Saints Day / Kingdom Season 1

A few weeks ago, I went down to down to Canterbury to give a talk in one of the local churches on the Friday evening.

Nov 03, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, September 29th, 2024. Feast of St Michael and All Angels

On the 20th of May 1916, Ernest Shackleton and two others stumbled half-dead into the small Norwegian whaling station of Stromness...

Sep 29, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, October 6th 2024. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity and ‘Generous Giving Sunday’

In our Exodus reading today, we see how giving was generated in the ancient Israelites by a stirring of the heart which was inspired by the Holy Spirit...

Oct 06, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, September 22nd, 2024. Harvest Thanksgiving Service

Today, we celebrate our Harvest Thanksgiving Service, which is the time when we give special thought to all those in need...

Sep 22, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, September 15th 2024. Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity / Creationtide 3

James, our Lord’s brother and a leader of the early church in Jerusalem has much to say about the tongue in his epistle reading this week...

Sep 15, 2024

Pew Sheet Sunday, September 8th 2024, Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, Creationtide 2

In last week’s Gospel reading we saw Jesus criticising the Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees ...

Sep 08, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, September 1st 2024. Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity / Creationtide 1

Today sees the start of the liturgical season of Creationtide which runs from the 1st of September to the 4th of October each year.

Sep 01, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, August 18th 2024. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity / Proper 15

In the last two weeks, we have been considering how Jesus repeatedly told the crowd that he was the ‘bread of life’ ...

Aug 18, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, July the 28th 2024. Ninth Sunday after Trinity / Proper 12

Many of the events we have been reading about in our Gospel passages for several weeks now took place either in, on, or around the Sea of Galilee

Jul 28, 2024

Sunday, August the 4th, 2024. The 10th Sunday after Trinity

How many times are we inclined to complain during the course of a single day?

Aug 04, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, July the 14th 2024. Seventh Sunday after Trinity / Proper 10

It is a great privilege to have Archdeacon Guy Elsmore preaching and presiding at our 09.30 service in Winslow today.

Jul 14, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, July the 7th 2024. Sixth Sunday after Trinity / Proper 9

Now that the polls have closed and the British people have made their minds up

Jul 07, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, June the 30th 2024. Fifth Sunday after Trinity / Proper 8

There is something wonderfully refreshing about our Gospel reading this week

Jun 30, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, June the 23rd 2024. Fourth Sunday after Trinity / Proper 7

One of my all-time favourite hymns is that written by a former resident of Baltimore, Priscilla Jane Owens

Jun 23, 2024

Pew Sheet 16th June 2024

Someone asked me last week how we can possibly know about the events recorded in the Gospels which tell us what happened when only Jesus was present, or when his disciples though present...

Jun 16, 2024

Pew Sheet, Sunday, June the 9th 2024.

People often ask me why the Church of England does not venerate the Virgin Mary to the same extent as other churches do, and I have even been asked if Anglicans really ‘believe’ in her

Jun 09, 2024

Pew Sheet 2nd June 2024

In our reading from Deuteronomy, we see the origins of the ‘Sabbath’ which was instituted so that the people, their servants, their livestock...

Jun 02, 2024

Pew Sheet, April 21st 2024. The 4th Sunday of Easter

The 23rd Psalm is probably the most popular and most-used Psalm in the Christian Psalter today.

Apr 21, 2024

Pew Sheet for Sunday the 14th of April 2024.  The Third Sunday of Easter

Pew Sheet for Sunday the 14th of April. The Third Sunday of Easter

Apr 14, 2024

Pew Sheet for Sunday the 17th of December 2023.  Advent 3 – Gaudete Sunday

Pew Sheet for Sunday the 17th of December 2023. Advent 3 – Gaudete Sunday. I always rejoice at this time of the year to read and reflect on the writings of the prophet Isaiah

Dec 17, 2023

November 19th 2023 Kingdom Season 3, Second Sunday before Advent

The Weekly Pew Sheet for November 19th 2023 Kingdom Season 3, Second Sunday before Advent

Nov 19, 2023

Sunday, November  26th 2023  The Feast of Christ the King  Kingdom Season 4

The pew sheet for Sunday, November 26th 2023 The Feast of Christ the King, Kingdom Season 4 One of the most important and meaningful symbols in the early church was the image of ‘Christ Pantocrator

Nov 26, 2023

Advent Sunday December 3rd 2023 Advent 1

Advent Sunday December 3rd 2023. Advent 1.

Dec 03, 2023