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Posts from 2020 (Page 11)

Sunday Gatherings in the St Nicholas Church Yard

We can’t meet in church, but we can still gather together- in a manner of speaking- outside, each Sunday from 10am in the church yard at St Nicholas. Services will be short- about 30 minutes, and can only be held if we all agree to abide by some tight rules to keep us all safe. To find out more… please keep reading……

Graveley Church Open for Quiet Prayer

The scriptures command us to pray and cast all our cares upon the LORD because he cares for us. We can’t use St Nicholas Church right now, we hope to be able to by the middle of April, but St Mary’s Graveley will be open for quiet prayer on… Saturday mornings from 10am-11am Monday afternoons from 2:30pm-4pm Wednesday afternoons from 2:30pm to…

Letter from the Rector March 2020

To read the letter from the Rector on the changes to our services and how we will work together as a church throughout this crisis. Dear friends,                                                                                                               Friday 20th March, 2020. I’m writing to you now in the midst of difficult and challenging days.  You’ll all be aware of the situation our country is facing, but recent government and Church of England…

Lent#3: Reflecting on the Holy Spirit

I’m not always great at asking for help.  I like to think that I am competent and that my talents and skills are sufficient to help me manage any task or challenge.  Sometimes I’m right.  Often, I’m wrong!  And if that’s true with every day tasks, it’s most certainly true for living as a disciple and growing more like Christ. The Baptism…

Lent #2: Meditating on Jesus

It was CS Lewis who first suggested that the accounts of Jesus’ life leave us with 3 options as to the true identity of Jesus: He is either mad (utterly self-deluded), bad (a charlatan who set out to trick people into following him for his own purposes) or God.  Imagining, as many people seem to do today, that Jesus was just a…