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Pentecost took place on the well-established Jewish festival of Firstfruits, which was observed at the beginning of the wheat harvest. It was seven weeks after Easter, or 50 days including Easter. A feast day to celebrate the country’s wheat harvest does not sound exactly world-changing, but that year, it became one of the most important...

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Arthur’s Garden – Up the Garden Path, Down Memory Lane My Bible Stories – colouring and sticker book How Not to Totally Put Your Children Off God The Freedom of Years Out of Control Walk Humbly ** Arthur’s Garden – Up the Garden Path, Down Memory Lane By Pam Rhodes, Lion, £14.99 “As I stand...

On that long ago first morning of Pentecost, Jerusalem was crowded with thousands of visitors, for it was one of the most popular feast-days in the Jewish calendar – the Feast of Firstfruits, looking forward to the wheat harvest. In one small room of that great city, a small group of people who had followed...

The Rectory St James the Least   My dear Nephew Darren Never, ever feel aggrieved that your summer strawberry tea has to be held in the church hall rather than on a lawn, since there is hardly a single blade of grass to be found in your entire parish. You have no idea of the...

– Up the Garden Path, Down Memory Lane By Pam Rhodes, Lion, £14.99 “As I stand at my kitchen sink and look across at what we optimistically call our herb garden, to one side I see an old wooden sign on which are carved the words ‘Arthur’s Garden’. “Arthur doesn’t live here. My wonderful great-uncle...

2013 marked the 1450th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the UK.  It was brought by St Columba from Ireland to Iona – a tiny island off Mull, in the Western Highlands. Columba (c. 521 -97) was born in Donegal of the royal Ui Neill clan, and trained as a monk.  He founded the...

This month, dioceses across the Church of England will welcome new deacons and priests at special services in their cathedrals. This is because, traditionally, most ordination services take place at the end of June, during Petertide. Have you ever wondered how someone becomes a vicar? Here is a brief description of the journey: It begins...

Are you going to Cyprus on holiday this year?  If so, spare a thought for the Cypriot who played such a key role in the New Testament. He was Joseph, a Jewish Cypriot and a Levite, who is first mentioned in Acts 4:36, when the early church was sharing a communal lifestyle.  Joseph sold a...

Singers of all kinds will have a new song to sing this autumn – a ‘Song for the Season of Creation’ (1st Sept – 4th Oct). It was commissioned by the Church of England’s Environment Working Group, which hopes that in churches across the country “we can get a large number singing on Sunday 1st...

– and sticker book By Juliet David and Lucy Barnard , Candle Books, £6.99 Colouring and sticker fun with 16 favourite Bible stories. All the pages are part-coloured to leave room for sticker decoration and colouring so children can finish the stories for themselves! Stories include: Noah, Moses in the Bulrushes, Daniel and the Lions,...

Antony of Padua knew St Francis of Assisi.  Both men were true followers of Christ in a time of great religious confusion and social turmoil. Like Francis, Antony (1193 – 1231) was born into a wealthy family.  Antony’s father was a nobleman of Lisbon, Portugal, who sent his son at 16 to study the Bible...