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Editor:  Many people agree to ‘help out’ with a variety of jobs/ministries at church. Their service will not go unnoticed.  These quotes may encourage them to get started – or to keep going! When you try and do God’s work We do the works, but God works in us the doing of the works. –...

Very few people stand out as being incredibly good, but Vincent de Paul was one of them.  His life touched thousands of people, who were helped and inspired by his love and kindness. Vincent de Paul was born in 1581 to a Gascon peasant family at Ranquine. Educated by the Franciscans and then at Toulouse...

It was also 90 years ago, on 21st September 1936, that Frank Hornby, the British inventor, died.  He is remembered for the immensely popular Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys. Hornby was born into a Liverpool working-class family and was said to have been inspired by the industry in the city. He was brought...

A group of Anglican Franciscans are close to finishing a three-month, 800-mile pilgrimage across the UK, to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi. The 80-day journey began in July in Alnmouth, in Northumberland, and pilgrims have been heading to Hilfield Friary, in Dorset, by September.  They will then go...

Sacred Ache – Christian perspective on spirituality in witchcraft Dementia, God and the Church: Journeying with hope Enabling Spiritual Care: A guide for care home staff Becoming Prayer – a Franciscan Guide Called Through Cancer – Vocation, Vulnerability and God Who Holds Us When the Music Fades – Power, Surrender and Soul Survivor Generation Hope...

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Georg Philip Telemann, the 18th Century German composer, was an early collector of folk music, long before the vogue for collecting folk tunes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which in England drew in Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil Sharp and George Butterworth. Telemann would travel to Poland and note down the folk tunes...

Sleep experts suggest the following possible suspects: Alcohol. It interferes with the way your brain shuts down for the night. It can disrupt the deeper, more restorative level of sleep that you need. Hot chocolate. Here it is the added sugar that is the problem. It gives you an energy boost that you don’t need...

What really gets a woman remembered?  Loved? Respected? Lioba the abbess of Bischofsheim is the patron saint for any woman who wants to make the most of her life. Lioba was born in Wessex early in the 8th century.  Her family was noble, her mother was a relative of the monk Boniface (the Billy Graham...

It was back in February of 1956 that Buckingham Palace released a press announcement outlining plans for a trial period of ‘The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award’. It was the post-war era, and His Royal Highness wanted to help boys bridge the gap between leaving formal education at 15 and starting National Service at 18. He...

The General Synod has called for the appointment of a network of diocesan ‘champions’ to help ensure that neurodivergent clergy and lay people feel welcome and able to flourish in the Church of England. Members approved a proposal for more training at every level of the church on neurodiversity and a new network of neurodiversity...

 The Church of England has welcomed a recent announcement from the Government that they will consult this Autumn on the potential of RE becoming part of the National Curriculum, for the first time ever. This is part of the implementation of the Curriculum and Assessment Review as outlined in the Schools White Paper – Every Child...