August Ramblings from Simon School’s out the summer holidays are in. In many ways it might seem strange to be thinking about schools during the holidays, but although the children might not be at school, the wheels of governance move on. Recently, the old government’s policy to change all schools into academies was reversed because…
Monday 25th July – Friday 29th July from 9.30am – 12.00pm each day Children of primary school age are invited to join us this summer for our Benefice Christian Holiday Club entitled ‘Polar Explorers’. We will meet in: Croughton All Saints Primary School, With a special celebration on Sunday 31st July in Croughton Church.…
This month I suspect many will be fed up with the EU vote. We have so much conflicting information with which to try and make our choice. Where motor manufacturers think it is normal to mislead about the performance of their cars, where leading industrialists can sell companies with large pension deficits, when politicians debate…
Thy Kingdom Come The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are inviting churches to pray for the evangelisation of the nation during the week before Pentecost Sunday. The Archbishops have written to every serving parish priest in the Church of England expressing their longing “to see a great wave of prayer across our land, throughout the…
ALLELUIA CHRIST IS RISEN – HE IS RISEN INDEED ALLELUIA As the Easter greetings still ring out in our churches, we begin to follow the birth of the early church as new religion is formed full of hope and life and joy. But all is not well as their leader was crucified as a criminal,…
Easter One of the interesting things about Easter to me, is that it moves about. To many this is frustrating not least to schools and their holidays. But to me it is great as it shows that the power of Easter is not tamed. Christmas has been fixed as one date, 25th December, yet it…
With Easter coming early this year, we find Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday 9th February) marking the start of Lent. This year we will again be holding our Lent Bible Study – Cuppa and Chat, and will be looking for people to host the meetings. Subject – The Ten Commandments –The course booklet is £5 and…
Before Christmas, many of us will have written our annual Christmas letter to family and friends, giving an opportunity to look back over the year, when hopefully the good out weighs the bad. Now we look forward to a new year, I hope with eager anticipation. As we do so then many will be…
Posada or Travelling Cribs Posada is a Spanish word for ‘inn’. Posada celebrations originated in Mexico where two young people would be chosen to dress up as Mary and Joseph. They would travel around their village telling people about the forthcoming arrival of Jesus, and asking if they would give him a room. Today we…
