Let it snow!
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The Epiphany
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Father,
you revealed your Son to the nations
by the guidance of a star.
Lead us to your glory in heaven
by the light of faith.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God for ever and ever. Amen
O good Jes
A New decade – New (or perhaps not!) Resolutions?!
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I have never found it terribly easy getting back into the swing of work after a break and this post Christmas one is no exception. I have caught up on e mails and essential elements of administration before going into town to replenish the empty fridge. Thank God for Marks an
St Stephen
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Prayer to St. Stephen
We give thee thanks, O Lord of glory, for the example of the first martyr Stephen, who looked up to heaven and prayed for his persecutors to thy Son Jesus Christ, who standeth at thy right hand: where he liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, o
Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
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Quelle est cette odeur agréable,
Bergers, qui ravit tous nos sens?
S’exhale-t’il rien de semblable
Au milieu des fleurs du printemps?
Quelle est cette odeur agréable
Bergers, qui ravit tous nos sens?
What is this pleasant fragrance,
shepherds, which delights all our
Craigie Aitchison
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One of my favourite artists died this week - a painter who was an outstanding colourist. Here is his obituary from the Times:
Craigie Aitchison was one of those visionary individualists whom Britain throws up from time to time. The first sight of a picture by him might suggest
Christmas at St Georges Windsor
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We are busy here preparing for our Christmas worship - amidst the snow and frost and activity....
And for those of you who want to join us:
Wednesday 23rd
7:30amMattins 8:00amHoly Communion 5:15pmCommunity Carol Service
Thursday 24th
7:30amMattins 8:00amHoly Communion
focus
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Is Heaven a Place -- a Sky -- a Tree?
Location's narrow way is for Ourselves --
Unto the Dead
There's no Geography --
But State -- Endowal -- Focus --
Where -- Omnipresence -- fly?
From Emily Dickinson, We pray -- to Heaven
In Praise of Anglicanism
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The Church of England has taken a pounding from critics, but Rowan Williams has reasons to be cheerful as Christmas approaches, says a leading Anglican historian and commentator,Diarmaid MacCulloch ( printed in the The Observer Sunday 20 December 2009)
I thought this letter w
Snow in Windsor
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Pictures are sometimes better than words!
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost (1923)
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little
The poetry of Christmas
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The child of Bethlehem, the man on the Cross, Jesus – he embraces the whole of our human experiences – God with us, not just for good times, but for all times. This is the message of the angels – God with us, in times of darkness and cold, sorrow and uncertainty; God wi
Water
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water
If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.
Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;
My litany would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,
And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angle
Change?
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Change is the essence of life. Or as Herbert Spencer put it in his Principles of Biology: ‘a living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.’ A commitment to changelessness is not only unfortunate, it is
Laughter
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Laughter
An extract from H. A. Williams' book Tensions, Necessary Conflicts in Life and Love
God, we believe, accepts us, accepts all men, unconditionally, warts and all. Laughter is the purest form of our response to God's acceptance of us. For when I laugh at myself I accept
Criticism?
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A sermon preached at St Georges Windsor Third Sunday of Advent
1 Corinthians 4. 1-5 Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. 2Moreover, it is required of stewards that they should be found trustworthy. 3But with me it is a very small thin
John of the Cross
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Saint John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) (24 June 1542 — 14 December 1591), born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Catholic Reformation, a Spanish mystic, and Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile.
Saint John of the Cross was a refor
Waiting
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The song I came to sing
remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing
and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true,
the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony
of wishing in my heart…..
I have not seen his face,
nor have I li
the struggle within?
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Life forges us in struggle. From one end of life to another we duel and joust, contest and dispute, rebel and revolt – against forces outside ourselves, yes, but against tensions within us as well. We struggle from infancy in an attempt to exert our own will on the world arou
God in the struggle of life?
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But God is not a puppeteer and God is not a magic act, God is the ground of our being, the energy of life, the goodness out of which all things are intended to grown to fullness. Yet it is a struggle. How can we possibly equate the two – a good God with a life of tilts and
On the Road
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I travel upto Durham today to see my parents and catch up before Christmas - the card drop will save a fortune and Christmas isnt Christmas without on of my mothers cakes! this is a special year for them - on Christmas eve they celebrate 50 years of marriage.
The north feels so