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Shepherds to Shepherd Prayer for Christmas 2025 Christmas Daughter of Zion Flying Lessons What Does Christmas Mean To You? I heard the Bells on Christmas Day ** Shepherds to Shepherd (Lk2:8-20, Jn10:11) You will find the baby, Said the angel, You will find the baby In Bethlehem, The baby of glory and peace, The baby...

The death of a very young child is perhaps the hardest grief of all to bear.  So the 28th December is a very poignant day in the church calendar.  It is when the worldwide Church joins with bereaved parents to grieve the loss of babies and young children.  For Holy Innocents day recalls the massacre...

Do you expect to like all the presents you will receive this year?  Not if last year was anything to go by… It seems that many of us expect to unwrap at least one item that we do want this Christmas. What do you do with those weird gifts? Some of us admit to dumping...

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.   Psalm 139:15-16 You began life...

Children’s Society is to have a show garden at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower show next year, 19th-23rd May 2026. Designed to spotlight the urgent issue of teenage wellbeing in the UK, ‘The Children’s Society Garden’ has been created by landscape architect Patrick Clarke. It draws inspiration from the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi...

Ashley, Bert and Conall were names of storms The re-wilding lynx project was releasing cats in the wild. Palmerston was brought out of retirement for a “purr-fect” diplomatic posting to Bermuda. President Trump’s favourite word is tariffs. The nickname of the original line was the Varsity Line as it linked the two universities. It was...

A special service giving thanks for the food that we eat and the people and technology used to harvest it was recently held in Inverkeilor Church in Angus, to mark the start of a major competition, the 61st Scottish Ploughing Championships. The Scottish Ploughing Championships have been held annually since 1963 in a different part...

The Rectory St James the Least My dear Nephew Darren And so, the old year draws to a close, and you are packing to move to your own first parish in January. Let me give you some final words of advice. Curates, you will have noticed, are forgiven everything. I hope you have appreciated this...

Sundays of the Month Editor:  We thought you might find it helpful to know what the Sundays of each month are called…  2nd November              Fourth Sunday before Advent 9th November              REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 16th November            Second Sunday before Advent 23rd November            Sunday next before Advent – Christ the King 30th November            First Sunday of Advent...

Some people have near-death experiences…. Lazarus should be their patron saint.  Except that he went all the way, and died for four days.  He was quiet in his tomb and the mourners of Bethany were in full swing – before Jesus called him back to life.  (See John 11: 1 – 44.) What happened next...

All Saints, or All Hallows, is the feast of all the redeemed, known and unknown, who are now in heaven. When the English Reformation took place, the number of saints in the calendar was drastically reduced, with the result that All Saints’ Day stood out with a prominence that it had never had before. This...

The first martyrs of Rome are recorded in the old Roman Martyrology, which states that: ‘At Rome, the birthday is celebrated of very many martyrs, who under the Emperor Nero were falsely charged with the burning of the city and by him were ordered to be slain by various kinds of cruel death; some were...