Reflections from the Rectory – December 2025 I believe in ‘wintering’. Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. They hunka …
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Reflection November 2025
November is the month for remembering. In particular this year on Sunday 9th November at the memorial ground in Coldharbour (11.50) and St. James’ (10.30) we mark the 85th anniversaries of significant events like the Dunkirk evacuation and the Battle of Britain and the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. We will be …
Reflection 2025-10-01
October 2025 – Reflections from the Rectory Dear friends, Autumn is a time of change; a season ending and a season beginning. While I mourn the loss of warm summer evenings and family gathered around the BBQ, I am trying to embrace the warmth of snuggly jumpers, chilly and colourful walks and open fires! We …
Reflection 2025-06-01
Reflections from the Rectory – June 2025 It may seem strange to some to see an Anglian Priest quoting words from the Catholic Pope but we are all part of the same universal church (catholic with a small ‘c’) and are all disciples of Jesus. These words from Pope Leo are so special that I …
Reflection 2023-09-10
Reflection 10th September 2023 Meditation on “Father hear the prayer we offer” for Choral Evensong “Father, hear the prayer we offer; not for ease that prayer may be, but for strength that we may ever live our lives courageously.” What I wonder do we all make most central to our prayers and hazarding a guess …
Reflection from the Rectory – September 2023
Reflection – September 2023 September for me comes full of hope, new beginnings and opportunities but accompanying that I also carry a dollop of trepidation! Perhaps this is as a result of my many years as a mother; soothing school nerves and worries as I prepared my children for their first day back at the …
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Reflection 16th October 2022
Perhaps we should start at the beginning – What is Worship? So if worship isn’t just singing what does it look like and how do we do it? Our three readings gave us a clue. Romans 12:1 talks of an everyday lived worship. John 4:23-24 tells us that we must do it in Spirit and truth …
