28th March 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, When preaching on Palm Sunday, I stressed the importance of seeking to enter into an understanding of Christ’s suffering and death on the cross, before celebrating the joy of his resurrection on Easter Day. I’m always saddened by how relatively few people come to worship on […]
22nd March 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, Yesterday afternoon, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I was able to watch & listen to most of the service from Canterbury Cathedral at which the new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, was inaugurated or enthroned. I was able to do so via my laptop […]
15th March 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, As my ‘Church Book & Desk Diary for 2013’ tells me, this coming Sunday, ‘Passiontide begins’. The fifth Sunday of the season of Lent, is also known as ‘Passion Sunday‘ and marks the beginning of the most solemn part of the Christian Year, the two weeks […]
8th March 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, Friday is rapidly disappearing! I’ve been very busy drafting a paper which hopefully will bring benefits to St. Clement’s in due course. But it means I’m very short on time to compile & send out my Weekly Message. Therefore this is the very quick version for […]
1st March 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, A very important announcement Your Church Council has unanimously decided to postpone the Annual Church Meeting (ACM), from Sunday 10th March 2013, to Sunday 21st April 2013. The reason for making this decision is that it was becoming highly unlikely that we would have completed & […]
22nd February 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, Before I write about what is happening this Sunday & in the coming week, I want to remind all those of you eligible to be on the Church Electoral Roll, who have still not passed their application forms to the Electoral Roll Officer aka as Sybille, […]
15th February 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, Yes – the penitential season of Lent began two days ago on Ash Wednesday. Thank you to the seventeen people who, both remembered and took the time, to come to worship on Wednesday evening. In my sermon, I mentioned how that people often give up something […]
8th February 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, Because Easter Day falls very early this year, (it falls on Sunday 31st March), it means that in turn, Lent begins early, Ash Wednesday being 13th February – next Wednesday. As a consequence, in 2013, the period of Ordinary Time between the end of the Epiphany […]
1st February 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, I want to start my ‘Weekly’ with saying a big…… ‘Thank you’ to Gordon Truefitt for organizing a wonderful Burn’s Night Ceilidh last Friday evening. If you weren’t there, you missed out on a very enjoyable event. Those who stepped into the breach when three different […]
25th January 2013
Dear People & Friends of St. Clement’s, I’m very much looking forward to seeing many of you this evening at our Burn’s Night Ceilidh. Gordon tells me that we have over fifty people attending so it should be a great occasion. Apparently, only about half of us will be able to dance at […]