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Mothering Sunday From the Vicar Spiritual Disciplines – Fasting Reflecting faith – what birds can remind us about our faith Stay trimmed and balanced Head for the wilderness ** Editor:  Canon Paul Hardingham considers our appreciation of mothers. Mothering Sunday Mothering Sunday is a day of mixed emotions. For many it’s a happy, joyous day,...

It was: 300 years ago, on 8th March 1723 that Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, died. Best known for designing St Paul’s Cathedral. 125 years ago, on 16th March 1898 that Aubrey Beardsley, British illustrator, died. His black ink drawings, influenced by Japanese woodcuts, contributed to the development of Art Nouveau. 100 years ago, on...

Learn to bell-ring for King’s Coronation! The ‘Nones’ Trust in clergy falls by a third Chinese are increasing ‘weaponised surveillance’ against Christians Burnley ministers tell their stories via TV Let’s make 19th March a Mothering Sunday Giving the journey  ** Learn to bell-ring for King’s Coronation! The Coronation of the King and the Queen Consort...

beloved monk and bishop of Lindisfarne Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (c 634-87) has long been northern England’s favourite saint. It is easy to see why: Cuthbert was holy, humble, peaceable, prayerful, faithful in friendship, winsome, and really kind. Cuthbert was born into a fairly well-off Anglo-Saxon family, and he became a monk at Melrose in 651....

Mothering Sunday is a day of mixed emotions. For many it’s a happy, joyous day, but for others it’s one of pain and grief. A day to celebrate love, while acknowledging those who cannot have children or have lost them and those who have no relationship with their mother. In the dying moments of His...

Archbishop of Canterbury & Reformation Martyr If you have ever been caught up in a great event at work, which has gone on to change your own life, then Thomas Cranmer is the saint for you. He was the first ever Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, following King Henry VIII’s decision to pull away from Rome,...

If you can’t bear to watch or read the news, you’re not alone. Newly published research shows that more than seven out of ten news publishers are concerned about increasing levels of ‘news avoidance.’ More and more people are turning away from the news because it’s just too difficult to take. And that may present...

Editor:  How can your magazine help your church to celebrate Mothering Sunday this year?  We offer some ideas below: You might want to award some local prizes to your local mums who excel in different categories of being a mother.For example, who in your church family is: Mother with the most children Mother with the...

 the good-natured carer Families are divided in two kinds of people: givers and takers. Blessed is the family with at least one ‘giver’, that someone of a cheerful, generous nature who does not panic when you ask them for help. These kindly saints are on hand when you need them, not fleeing with the cry...

The Coronation of the King and the Queen Consort will be held in Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6th May. It will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. A Palace statement has said that it will “reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry.” Meanwhile,...

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. (Psalm 51:77) People used to have an annual ‘Spring clean’ when they would clean the house from top to bottom. Perhaps it was a way of marking the new season or because the longer days and increasing...

Enslavement: Voices from the Archives, was recently opened to the public at Lambeth Palace Library, in central London, and will run until 31st March 2023. Items in the exhibition are from the library’s archives, which were studied in detail for research by the Church Commissioners for England into links to historic transatlantic chattel slavery. The...