2nd June 2024 – 1st after Trinity 10.30 Parish Communion Organ: A Fancy for Double Orgaine – Orlando GibbonsIntroit: O Lord, increase our faith – Henry LoosemoreHymns: NEH377 Immortal, invisible; NEH456 Teach me, my God and King ; [IA: NEH 144]; NEH239 Lord of all hopefulness; NEH420 O Jesus, I have promised.Anthem Ye choirs of …
Author archives: Philip Rawlings
Amber Wood LLM
Amber Wood – New lay Minister My name is Amber Wood and I will be licensed as a Lay Minister to the Leith Hill Benefice on June 22nd this year. I have been training part-time with the Guildford Diocese Local Ministry Programme for the last 3 years. I have worshipped in Surrey village churches throughout …
Eco Church
St James’ Abinger, A BRONZE Awarded Eco-Church Sustainable, ecologically-conscious and regenerative living will mean different things to different members of our community, but essentially, we want to all live in a way that restores the planet’s health. We know we all have an important responsibility to live in a way that helps our natural world …
Sermon 2024-05-12
12th May 2024 Sermon- Evensong – Dedication of St. James Acts 1:15-17, 21 – end, John 17: 6-19 What is this building to you? What memories, what sounds, what smells does it conjure up? Many of you here have grown up with this church as a part of your lives – it is literally part of the …
Dedication Weekend
DEDICATION FESTIVAL WEEKEND Concert Saturday 11th MayMarc-Antoine Charpentier – The Four Seasons of the Year: The best music you’ve never heard!Miranda Johnson & Jenny Hansell sopranos with David Hansell harpsichord & organRefreshments 11.30, Concert 12.00 (ends 12.50 approx.)Repeated 3.30/4.00 (ends 4.50 approx.) Choral Evensong Sunday 12th May – At 6.00 pm, led by The Rector, Rev’d Kia PakenhamIncluding …
Music 2024-05-12
12th May 2024, 7th Sunday of Easter, Sunday after the Ascension, St James Dedication Festival Choral Evensong 6pm Organ: Prince of Denmark’s March – Jeremiah Clarke (b1674)Introit: I was glad – ParryHymns: NEH205 Christ is made the sure foundation (omit v4); NEH134 The head that once was crowned with thorns; NEH132 (t185) See the Conqueror …
Sermon 2024-05-05
Sermon 5th May 2024 Acts 10:44-end, John 15:9-17 The desire for certainty goes very deep, and all of todays readings look at that longing with sympathy, though the answers they give are as challenging as they are reassuring. In the Gospel, Jesus is at last giving his disciples ‘commandments’. If the disciples have been listening to …
2024-05 Reflection from the Rectory
May 2024 – Reflections from the Rectory I find May a great month! In the church we celebrate the Ascension (when Jesus ascended into heaven on the 40th day after his resurrection), Pentecost (when the Holy Spirit was poured out and made available to all), and Trinity Sunday (where we focus on the mystery of …
Sermon 2024-04-14
Sermon 14th April 2024 Evensong Acts 3:12-19, Luke 25:36b – 48 I’d like to invite you, if you will, to imagine that you are an old Jewish tradesman in the 1st century in the middle East. You are a puzzled seeker trying to make sense of this Jesus stuff. Your thoughts may go something like this …
Sermon 2024-04-07
TITLE Texts: Acts 4: 32-35, John 20,:19-end Today we hear in our readings about two seemingly very different personalities. The first being Thomas, the apostle almost invariably labelled with the epithet ‘doubting’ and then we have Barnabas, whose name we are told means ‘Son of the Encourager’. The name Barnabas is now associated with not …
