9th February 2025 – 4th Sunday before Lent/5th Sunday of Epiphany Choral Evensong 6pm Organ: Fantasia in C minor (BWV 537i) – J S Bach Introit: Lead me, Lord – S S Wesley Hymns: NEH48 Bethlehem, of noblest cities; NEH467 Through all the changing scenes of life; NEH244 Glory to thee, my God, this night …
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Music 2025-02-02
2nd February 2025 – The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) Parish Communion 10:30am Organ: Voluntary in D minor Op.VI/1 – John StanleyIntroit: Ps 122Hymns NEH401 (omit v5) Light’s abode, celestial Salem; NEH (t312) Lift up your heads; NEH408 Love divine, all loves excelling; [IA: The Lord is my light]; NEH 286 From glory …
Music 2025-01-12
12th January 2025 – 1st Sunday of Epiphany Choral Evensong – 6:00pm Organ: A Fancy – Thomas TomkinsIntroit: Personent Hodie – Anon./Holst~Hymns: NEH52 O worship the Lord; NEH50 From the eastern mountains (omit vv 3&4); ` NEH30 O come, all ye faithful (omit vv 2&3)Psalm: 72 (BCPp221)Canticles: Joanna Forbes L’EstrangeAnthem: Thou must leave thy lowly cradle …
Music 2025-01-05
5th January 2025 – 2nd Sunday of Christmas and Eve of The Epiphany of Our Lord Parish Communion 10:30am Organ: Voluntary in D minor – Thomas TomkinsIntroit: From the rising of the sun – Frederick Ouseley (b1825)Hymns NEH47 As with gladness; NEH28 In the bleak midwinter (vv 1,2&5); We three Kings (sheet); NEH36 The first NowellAnthem: …
Sermon 2024-12-29
29th december 2024 – 1st Sunday Of Christmas Colossians 3:12-17 and Luke 2 41-52. It is all over…. Congratulations, you have all made it to the other side of Christmas Day! We have celebrated the birth of Jesus, sung carols and gathered together with family and friends. There may well have been challenges, perhaps serving …
Sermon 2024-12-22
22nd December 2024 – Carol Service Lord, we pray for each person here, and each family represented tonight. We give thanks that you hold every single one of us in your hand and we pray that as we join together in your presence here, we will take the blessing we receive out into the cold …
Crib Service 2024-12-15
Crib Service – 15th December Crib service this Sunday, 10:30, at St.James’ – come dressed as your favourite nativity character for a fun, interactive (and slightly chaotic!) nativity!! Costumes available!
Sermon 2024-12-08
8th December 2024 – Evensong Luke 3:1-6 / Malachi 3:1-4. This evening we have lit the second advent candle, that represents peace, preparation and John the Baptist. It is often called the Bethlehem candle to reflect the journey made by Mary and Joseph from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It builds on the meaning of the candle …
POSTPONED Leaf Sweep 7th December
St James’ Churchyard leaf Sweep – postponed
Sermon 2024-12-01
1st December 2024 -First Sunday of Advent 1 Thessalonians 3:9-end, Luke 21:25-36 There are really three Comings of the Lord and each one in its own way is very important for us to understand. The word Advent — it’s a Latin word, advenio — means “the coming.” Not “he came” but “the coming.” The First Coming, of course, …
