This year Ash Weds and Valentine’s Day coincide. To begin with this seems like an unhappy collision - and yet, LOVE is at the heart of both.

John’s gospel is not a tale of some wonder working hero stepping in to fix everyone’s problems with a wave of his hand.

Dear Friends Matthew 2:11 They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his mother Mary, they knelt down and worshipped him....

It is at this point in the season that we turn our gaze away from Christmas and towards the New Year.

Each year particular lines in carols stand out, according to whatever is going on in our personal lives, or in the world at large. 

We are asked to be a people who rejoice. To be people of Joy. This Sunday, Advent III,  is also traditionally known as “Gaudete” Sunday.

A king who we will in just a few short weeks come to recognise as the baby in the manger. A King who at Easter is vulnerable, bruised and..

Whose voice or voices have stood out this week? Where are those people situated? What are they saying, and how might they be God’s messenger

“Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble”,

These are the words that we heard last week at the baptism at All Saints and will again a couple of times this weekend at St Marys.

All Saints Day reminds us that we don't follow Jesus on our own. Through baptism we become members who belong to each other in Christ

His stressing love being the bedrock that is God and that transforms all who accept Jesus is powerful and transformative.

Dear All Saints and St Mary’s As Diane reminded us last week, joy is a theme that runs through Paul’s letter to the Christians in...

Dear All Saints and St Mary’s Diane and I have just returned from our holiday visiting friends in Germany and are now coming up to a bank...

This is why the Matthew text has always been challenging. Jesus, who we see as our model of love and the antithesis of any prejudice....

Dear All Saints and St Mary's “Bless O Lord us your servants that minister in your temple, grant that what we sing with our lips may we...

We all have those times where we really don’t know how to react to something. I can easily just babble away or just look baffled

we also need to heed the warnings of the farm owner. Be sure that what you are rooting out is the evil.

Flowers and fruit are signs of new life and hope. But you can't get good growth without seed, good soil, rain and warmth.

A simple cup of water is all it takes, says Jesus, to offer a welcome that cares. Hospitality stands at the centre of Christian discipleship