“Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner […]
Youth Work
Christmas
Have you ever looked at a painting and tried to work out what the picture is all about? Sometimes it is very difficult to tell what the artist has painted if we stand too close to the picture because all we see are different coloured blobs of paint. if however we stand back a little […]
Epiphany Carol Service at St Veep 2017
A Homily given by Canon John Halkes St Paul on visiting Athens -just 40 years after the events we followed tonight-famously said: ‘Men of Athens I see you are religious and there are statues to your gods. And I see that you even have an altar inscribed ‘to an unknown god’ . But I come […]
Letter for New Year
I expect many of you have heard the expression, “With the New Year we all get a clean slate”. Some will remember that before exercise books, pencils and rubbers children at school would write with a slate pencil on a slate. One of the problems with a slate was that when you had made a […]
From the Rector’s Desk….
Undoubtedly, you’re already wondering where on earth the time is going! No sooner is Christmas over with before its time to start thinking about Easter! I’m discovering that forward planning is a vital part of my role, something I’m trying to get better at! Perhaps I can learn a lesson from our retail giants, after […]