Text: Luke 2:22-40; In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, Christmas is well and truly over, the decorations are safely packed away, and the more enterprising amongst you may already have bought next year’s Christmas cards cheaply in the January sales, I know we have!…
I do enjoy taking the odd photograph, and Ben introduced me to this fabulous gallery software for me to put up my photographs so that they can clog up not only my own hard disk, but the t'internet's big hard disk as well. http://fathersimon.myjalbum.net/oneEyeopen/index.html
After what had been a bit of a dark week past (see posts passim), I can sense some new and encouraging signs. In addition to the two adult candidates for Confirmation, I have had another two respond favourably to my suggestion that they prepare for the Sacrament. One of my greatest loves in ministry after…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ysrdy13OyA In reply to the Romanian Carol sent to us for Christmas, we return with a Makaton Song: "Jesus is a friend of mine"
I'm now in one of those hideous, dark moods because of tonight's youth club. It started okay, and was mildly boisterous. This was understandable really because the local Secondary School had an INSET day preceded by a one-to-one interview day which meant that most of them hadn't had much stimulation for two days (the one-to-one…
Text: John 1:29-34, Galatians 5:16-26 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen It gives me great pleasure to be with you this morning, and I bring you greetings from the parish of St Thomas the Apostle, Elson in Gosport. I come to be with you today, not…
For this you will need to give a copy of this worksheet out to everyone with a pencil. The winner is the first person to sign off all these silly tasks. Great to get the kids to interact with each other outside their normal groupings! The Great Task List You have to get a different…
I have seen a number of photos of people's desktops on the blogs recently, so here is my contribution What you see cannot surely be a surprise: * Tea and Coffee Mugs (always in multiples - no espresso this time, must be late in the day) * The Ikon of Our Lord and Our Lady…
Text: Matthew 2:1-12 It’s not easy being a bloke these days… we take quite a bit of stick. I read recently that if the wise men had been women, things would have been different and much better. Firstly, if the wise men had been women, they would not have arrived many months after Jesus’ birth…
