Rector's Letter

Rector's Letter December 2025-January 2026
How do you feel about Christmas? Some people love it and have never really lost the wonderful child-like innocence of it all – they can’t wait for the decorations to go up, the music to start playing and the anticipation of the big day itself, spent with More ...
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Rector's Letter - Rev’d Jeremy Trew - November 2025
November is a month of great contrasts. It starts with two commemorations, both of which cause us to look back. The first, right at the start of the month, is the twin festivals of All Saints and All Souls, where we remember the saints of the church, and More ...
Rector's Letter - Rev’d Jeremy Trew - October 2025
About the time this edition of the parish magazine is published, the church remembers one of its most famous saints – Francis of Assisi. He was, by any account, an extraordinary young man, who abandoned a privileged lifestyle in medieval Europe, to live o More ...
Rector's Letter - Rev’d Jeremy Trew - August-September 2025
“Tradition” is a funny word. For some it is associated with quality, skill and care; an echo of the “good old days”. For others it is what we did last time and we liked it. Claiming to be “traditional” is often like claiming the moral high ground in an ar More ...
Rector's Letter - Rev’d Jeremy Trew - July 2025
Psalm 23 (the one that begins, “The Lord is my shepherd…”) is one I often use at funerals, but it’s a good‘un for many occasions. The writer is David. He’s no ordinary man. The youngest of several brothers, he was initially overlooked when Samuel visited More ...

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