4th November 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, In my Weekly Message of two weeks ago, I pointed out that on Sunday 23rd October, we finally stopped counting Sundays after Trinity as that Sunday was the ‘Last after Trinity’ which we marked as ‘Bible Sunday’. Now we count down through four ‘Sundays before Advent’ until we […]
27th October 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, As promised last week, this week’s ‘Weekly Message’ is going out a day earlier than usual, not least because tomorrow, Friday 28th October, is a public holiday here in the Czech Republic, celebrating the 93rd anniversary of the declaration of an independent Czechoslovakia by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in […]
21st October 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, The Week Ahead…… This coming Sunday, we finally finish counting the Sundays after Trinity! Next Sunday, we start counting down the Sundays to Advent & the beginning of a new Christian Year. As many of you know, our Bible Readings each Sunday come from the Revised Common Lectionary(RCL), […]
14th October 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Yes – I’m back from the Eastern Archdeaconry Synod and then being on two weeks annual leave. I’ve written about the Synod & posted some photos on my blog and along with Jack Noonan, will report on it in greater detail to your Church Council when it meets […]
21st September 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, I’m writing this just a few hours before I fly from Prague to Bucharest. From Thursday 22nd – Sunday 25th September in Bucharest, along with Jack Noonan, I will be attending the annual Eastern Archdeaconry Synod. This brings together the clergy and elected lay representatives from the Anglican […]
16th September 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, This week’s message comes in three parts Details of what is happening this Sunday & in the coming week. A note about things slightly further ahead including details of what is happening whilst I’m not here for over two & a half weeks. A note about issues in […]
9th September 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, This week’s message comes in two parts. The first part gives details of all that is happening at St. Clement’s in the week ahead. The second part is entitled Five ways to support St. Clement’s financially. The week ahead at St. Clement’s Sunday 11th September at 11.00 – […]
2nd September 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, I thought that this week was going to be quiet before our Autumn activities recommence next week. But it has been far from quiet! I’ve had a whole series of meetings, loads of emails to write & reply to, & suddenly it is Friday lunchtime & I haven’t […]
26th August 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, Last week, in the opening remarks of my regular weekly message, I commented how that only in the few previous days, had we had anything that could be described as ‘normal Prague summer weather’ this year. Well, as all of you who are in Prague at present will […]
19th August 2011
Dear People & Friends of St. Clements, This is my third summer in Prague and, up until now, it has been far wetter & cooler than the two previous ones. However, this week the weather has been much more like previous summers with several sunny days & increasing temperatures (over 30 degrees Celsius yesterday), followed […]