Category: From the ministry team
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Revd Dr Anne Holmes
Tomorrow’s (Sunday) 10:30 service will be significant for two reasons: Firstly, it will be the last time that St Giles’ and St Margaret’s will be worshipping together, having done so since before the summer holidays. Even more significantly, it will mark Anne’s final service as a licensed member of the benefice ministry team, having received…
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The next few months at St Margaret’s
This is a really exciting time for St Margaret’s, if a slightly scary one, as we take a leap into the unknown. From next Sunday, 28th April, the building will be closed for a few months as the renovation work begins, starting with the new heating system which will involve, amongst other things, ripping up…
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Lent Reading: The Light We Carry
This week Eva Walters shares some reflections on the book she is reading this Lent. This year for Lent, I was pleased to find a copy of Michele Obama’s “The Light We Carry” in Oxfam. It was written in the months coming out of the worst part of the pandemic but seems to be fitting…
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Lent Reading: Creative Repair
As we continue through Lent, Anne Holmes shares a little about her most recent book. While written with those who are engaged in pastoral care of kinds in mind, its insights are helpful for all who are interested in how to effectively engage in self-care. My book Creative Repair – Pastoral Care and Creativity was…
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What are you doing this Lent?
As you will know, in the Benefice this Lent we are hosting the Come and See course (you are still very welcome to sign up – see here for more information!), but many of you will be marking Lent in other ways too. You may be giving something up or starting a new spiritual practice.…
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Benefice Prayer Diary
Claire Browes – Associate Priest – introduces the new Benefice Prayer Diary: When I first arrived in the Benefice a few weeks ago, Daniel gave me a map of the two parishes. I have spent some of my time since then trying to walk down every road to get a sense of the place, of…