(Videos will be added shortly and will be available for download) Gathering As people arrive they will be met by Hoodies who will have collection bags and offer them money… hand in take a coin Point – to surprise people – that’s not what I expected – church takes money doesn’t give it away !…
Tablets are great for the Easter Vigil - they're backlit and so you can do the Vigil without any additional light at the legillium Easter Vigil A fire is lit outside the darkened church Brothers and sisters in Christ, on this most holy night, in which our Lord Jesus Christ passed over from death to…
If, like me, your singing is average at best, then the Exsultet with all it's twiddly bits is quite nerve-wracking. This version is simplified, less twiddly bits and mainly in a commonly known tone. It might help. Download: Exsultet Plainchant Revised
1. "Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing." (Luke 23: 34) (1:07) Forgiveness is terribly easy to ask from others, and yet so very hard to give from ourselves. As Our Lord was nailed to the instrument of his passion, he spoke asking the Fathers forgiveness, whilst he freely forgave them…
Gathering 7pm at the strike – ‘Bring ‘em’ all in https://www.vimeo.com/158154571 At “God is here. Make yourselves at home”… Anna – Welcomes & Introduces the theme. Stand: We are the body of Christ In the one Spirit We were all baptised into one body We are one body We affirm all that is good in…
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “I taught you what I had been taught myself, namely that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; and that he was raised to life on the third…
Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Blaise (Blase, Blaize, who knows?), who was bishop of Sebaste in Armenia in the fourth century. Before being martyred, he is said to have healed a boy who was choking. Tradition also has it that he was martyred by beheading, face up. Since the eighth century, Saint Blaise…
This is the document in my Evernote, but just in case my children don't think to look in there. Here are my Funeral Wishes To my beloved children: Liam, Emma and Zoë Although I have spoken of this often, and you all know my funeral wishes generally, this is where I write it out. My…
Dear brothers and sisters, the glory of the Lord has shone upon us, and shall ever be manifest among us, until the day of his return. Through the rhythms of times and seasons let us celebrate the mysteries of salvation. Let us recall the year's culmination, the Easter Triduum of the Lord: his last supper,…
