20th April 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Sunday worship The Easter Season is fifty days long, going all the way through to Pentecost Sunday which this year is Sunday 27th May. So this coming Sunday 22nd April, is the Third Sunday of Easter with our Gospel Reading being Luke 24. 36-48 which describes a further […]
13th April 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, What a wonderful Easter Day celebration we had last Sunday morning! A congregation of 112 made it larger than any in 2011 & our biggest Easter Day congregation since 2009. Especial thanks to everyone who helped set up the Church ready for worship in the brief fifteen minutes […]
5th April 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Yes – Sybille & I are safely back from our long weekend in the UK. If you want to know more about what we were up to, click on this link My thanks to Karen Moritz and David Hellam for leading our Palm Sunday worship in my absence […]
23rd March 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, My Weekly Message begins this week with a very important reminder – the clocks go FORWARD by one hour at 02.00 on Sunday morning. Don’t arrive at the end of the service this Sunday but at the beginning! And if you travel to Church by tram & have […]
16th March 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, This Sunday….. …..is the Fourth Sunday in Lent, is also known as Refreshment Sunday or to many British families as ‘Mothering Sunday‘. The title ‘Refreshment Sunday’ came about because it is the mid point of the Lenten Season when you were allowed a little ‘refreshment’ and a break […]
9th March 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Your Church Council met last Monday evening. One very important decision they made was to change the date of our forthcoming Annual Church Meeting in order to allow additional time for the compilation and auditing of our 2011 accounts. Therefore, the……. Annual Church Meeting will now be one […]
2nd March 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Having gone through the whole of this past winter without getting ill in any shape or form, just as the temperature begins to rise and the first very early signs of Spring begin to appear, I’ve gone down with a cold & sore throat! So I’m going to […]
24th February 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Yes – Lent began on Wednesday of this week and continues now until Sunday 8th April which is when Easter Day falls this year. Rather than writing things out here, I’ve set out details of what’s happening throughout Lent in a programme that is a separate post. Can […]
10th February 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, I want to start this ‘Weekly Message’ with a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who braved the cold to join us for worship at St. Clement’s last Sunday morning. I wasn’t the only one who noticed that our members who originally hail from countries with very warm climates, […]
3rd February 2012
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Today Friday 3rd February, my Church Book & Desk Diary reminds me that ‘Ordinary Time starts today‘. The Epiphany Season is over and Lent doesn’t begin this year until Wednesday 22nd February. But during this short ‘green season’, we still have our regular worship & activities going on […]