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If your Christmas and New Year break included just too many people and even a bout of indigestion, then St Anthony may be the saint for you. He was a hermit-monk with a reputation for making poorly people feel better. Anthony was born in Coma (Upper Egypt) in 251, and at 20 became an ascetic....

Not many teenagers, on becoming a Christian, will devote themselves to winning others for Christ in a foreign land. Amy was such a person. She left Britain to live in a tiny village in Southern India. Here, for the next 56 years, Amy rescued hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children, and served her Lord in...

Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester from 1062 to 1095, occupies a unique place in British church history. He was the last surviving pre-Conquest bishop, the first bishop to pay homage to William the Conqueror after the battle of Hastings, and one of the few Saxons to keep high office to the end of William’s reign. On top...

The more things change, the more they remain the same. You could read Meinrad’s story today in the newspapers of any large city. He was born near Wurtemberg of a free peasant family and he became a monk at Reichenau (Switzerland). In 829 he moved to Einsiedeln to be a hermit, where he lived quietly...

“Pray with us,” the Archbishop of Hong Kong, the Most Revd Andrew Chan, has asked, following a horrific fire in seven residential tower blocks in Wang Fuk Court, in Tai Po.  At least 146 people were killed. The complex was home to about 4600 people, and in addition to those killed, dozens have been critically...

We are full of good intentions at the start of each year. How come we usually fizzle out by February? Here are some tips to keep you going… Be realistic. If you have several goals, don’t attempt them all at once. Research has found that if you stagger your goals, you will have more success....

This year the prayers and reflections are from the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with the Armenian Catholic and Evangelical Churches. These resources draw upon centuries-old traditions of prayer and petitions used by the Armenian people, along with hymns that originated in the ancient monasteries and churches of Armenia, some of which date as far back...

Agnes should be the patron saint of all the young Christian girls alive today who live in areas of the world where they face kidnap, rape, forced marriage, persecution and even death – simply because they are Christian. Agnes, born c 291, probably came from a noble Roman family. She converted to Christianity at the...

‘Use honest scales and honest weights’ Leviticus 19:36 ‘The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favour with him.’ Proverbs 11:1   These verses are not about the scales you use to weigh yourself, to see how much weight you have put on over Christmas! It is a biblical warning for businesspeople to act...

In bygone years, the supply chain of food across Britain was fairly short: if it didn’t grow in your local fields, you were apt to go hungry. Hence the widespread traditional custom of Plough Sunday – bringing a plough (and sometimes a lamb as well) into church and praying for God’s blessing on the land...

It was 100 years ago, on 13th January 1926, that Michael Bond, the children’s writer, was born. He has an assured place in any literary Hall of Fame, for he created the characters Paddington Bear and Monsieur Pamplemousse. Paddington Bear padded into Michael Bond’s life quite by accident. It was back in 1956 that Michael...

Epiphany for Today From the Vicar The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride What’s the Big Idea? – An Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament: Song of Songs Epiphany! Going from Strength to Strength – even in January! Peaceful mind ** Editor:  By Canon Paul Hardingham Epiphany for Today This month we celebrate Epiphany, the...