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Clergy Letter


May 2025 Clergy Letter
As I write the world has been shocked and saddened by the death on Easter Monday of Pope Francis. Like his namesake, Francis of Assisi,...
Apr 24


April 2025 Clergy Letter
The past few days have been warm and sunny and as I write this I can hear birds singing and see daffodils, hellebores and hyacinths...
Mar 26


Clergy Letter March 2025
'Living Hope’ At 8.30pm on 23rd March 2020 Boris Johnson announced a stay-at-home order effective immediately. I recall it vividly...
Feb 26


February 2025 Clergy Letter
As I write this the January freeze is losing its icy grip and new shoots are pushing through the soil. I peer hopefully at the clumps of...
Jan 19


Dec 24 & Jan 25 Clergy Letter
'Oh COME let us adore HIM' Many of us are familiar with the carol, “O come all ye faithful”. The chorus urges us, “ O come, let us adore...
Nov 24, 2024


November 2024 Clergy Letter
Last year, in an article on the life and spirituality of trees, Rev Christine drew our attention to the iconic Sycamore tree in the gap...
Oct 22, 2024


October Clergy Letter 2024
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" Autumn has always been my favourite season; laden hedgerows, leaves beginning to turn...
Oct 1, 2024


Aug/Sept Clergy Letter 2024
‘May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you, wherever He may send you. May He guide you through the wilderness, protect you through the...
Jul 25, 2024


July 2024 Clergy Letter
Finding God in Silence Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before...
Jun 24, 2024


Clergy Letter June 2024
Witness In Conversations Last time I wrote the clergy newsletter, nearly a year ago, I shared my experience of being priested. A lot can...
May 23, 2024


May 2024 Clergy Letter
When I last wrote in March, I was anticipating the birth of my first grandchild. Little Levi William kept us all waiting. He was due on...
Apr 25, 2024


April 2024 Clergy Letter
A very Happy Easter to you all! Or as we will declare in all our Churches Christ is risen! This climax of the Christian calendar is...
Apr 6, 2024


March 2024 Clergy Letter
March is dominated by lengthening daylight and by LENT (old English for ‘lengthen’), with its air of austerity, fasting or giving-up...
Feb 23, 2024


February 2024 Clergy Letter
A Fusion of Festivals I recall one of our pre-school children saying at Easter, as we told the story of Jesus dying on the cross…”But...
Jan 26, 2024


Dec 23/Jan 24 Clergy Letter
Christmas is coming! At least if you read this in the first part of December. My hope is that you are able to enjoy the traditional...
Dec 2, 2023


Clergy Letter November 2023
This tree at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall stood for over 200 years – witnessing life events from marriage proposals to the scattering...
Nov 2, 2023


Clergy Letter October 2023
On our recent visit to the island of Jura in Scotland, I chanced upon a Craft Fayre in their tiny community hall in the village of...
Sep 21, 2023


Clergy Letter Aug/Sept 2023
Childs Ercall Sunday school – on their Summer Outing to Hodnet Hall Gardens – ‘A memorable moment’ perhaps reminiscent of the ‘Wise man...
Aug 15, 2023


Clergy Letter July 2023
Could you do with a REST? Reading an interview in the Church Times last weekend, I came across this line: ‘Bible meditation is allowing...
Jun 29, 2023


Clergy Letter June 2023
We have just celebrated Ascension Day. What is Ascension Day? It happens 40 days after Jesus’ resurrection. He rises into the air and...
Jun 5, 2023
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