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- Changes have been announced making it easier for parishes to apply for funding to support fabric repairs. The Church of England, working with the Wolfson Foundation and the National Churches Trust (NCT), has announced that during 2020 administration of the Wolfson Foundation funds for fabric repairs of churches will move from the Cathedral & Church...Fabric grant funding made easier for churches
- Eusebius is the saint for you if you believe in the Bible, and also in providing hospitality. He was born of a good family in Cremona, Italy, in the fourth century, and felt called to become a monk. As Eusebius was ascetic by nature, he sought out St Jerome in Rome, who advocated an austere...5 March – Eusebius: friend of St Jerome
- By Brian Draper and Howard Green, Canterbury Press, £14.99 In our busy, pressured world, the natural world can be a powerful counter-balance, offering wisdom for the challenges, pain and dislocations of life as well as for beauty, wonder and healing. Soulful Nature encourages you to get outside and make deeper connections with creation and its...Soulful Nature – A spiritual field guide
- This story could come straight out of modern Africa. Perpetua was a young married woman of 22 who had recently become a Christian. But the authorities had forbidden any new conversions, and soon she and some other catechumens were arrested and sentenced to death. This was not under Islamic State, nor Boko Haram, but under...7 March – Perpetua and Felicitas: joyful martyrs of Africa
- Henry Jones, a baker from Bristol, was granted a patent for his invention of self-raising flour 175 years ago, on 17th March 1845. Jones was born in Monmouth, Wales, but he established a bakery in Broadmead, Bristol. His formula for making self-raising flour – essentially a process of baking without yeast – was granted a patent in...The man who invented self-raising flour
- By Malcolm Duncan, Lion Hudson, £10.99 We all walk through grief and loss. It comes in many shapes and forms. As a husband, father, son and a pastor for the past thirty-four years, Malcolm Duncan has experienced loss in many forms. Duncan has seen grief destroy some people, and his own experience of loss and...Good Grief – Living with Sorrow and Loss
- Here’s a ‘saint’ that the Church of England remembers from the 1st World War – the Revd. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy MC, or ‘Woodbine Willie’, as everyone knew this popular, much-loved army chaplain on the Western Front. Studdert Kennedy (27th June 1883 – 8th March 1929) had been born in Leeds as the seventh of nine...8 March – Woodbine Willie: bringing love with cigarettes and the Bible
- This year, it is all about water and climate change – and how the two are linked. There is a website offering good ideas and resources if you would like to join in. Please go to: https://www.worldwaterday.org/World Water Day – 22nd March
- Following the recent change in the law to extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples, the House of Bishops has agreed a pastoral statement. It is as follows: In December 2005 the Civil Partnership Act came into force. For the first time it created a new institution that was not marriage, enabling two people of the...Civil Partnerships for opposite-sex couples
- East Anglia is blessed with a rich Christian heritage. Just two examples: at more than 650, Norfolk has the greatest concentration of ancient churches in the world, and at 500, Suffolk has the second greatest density of medieval churches. And that is not to mention all the churches in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire… And it all...NEW 8 March – Felix of Burgundy: apostle to East Anglia
- The Way of the Cross From the Vicar Psalm 84 – a heart for pilgrimage When Spring comes The bonus years Family and Freedom Have you done something which haunts you? Look for good pasture – spend time with good people What Psalm 23 is really all about ** Editor: The Revd Canon Paul Hardingham...Looking at God (all articles) for March 2020
- By Christina Goodings, Lion Children, £6.99 Crammed with 50 crafts and creative ideas that are perfect for Spring and Easter. Each craft is accompanied by simple step-by-step illustrated instructions. Make divine decorations, Easter baskets, chirpy chicks, creative cards, and more!Easter! Fun Things to Make and Do