It may not quite be up to the musical standard of the choristers at King’s College, Cambridge, but the annual carol service at St. Cuthbert’s this evening at 6pm is still a delightful highlight of this festive season. The church…
Category: Faith and Worship
The Community Church
Last week, looking to complete the diary’s year-long survey of all of the faith and worship communities in these Allen Valleys, I had a lovely chat with Chris Daniels, who with Brenda is a member of Hexham’s Community Church, and…
The Burnlaw community and the Bahá’í faith
In midsummer of 2020, the Burnlaw community will celebrate its 40th anniversary. I had a lovely long chat with Garry Villiers-Stuart the other day, both of us fading now into our later years, but still, I think, fizzing with the…
Christingle Celebration
Sylvia Milburn, who notes that she’s no longer responsible for the service now, having passed that lovely duty on to Craig Atkinson, Alison Fothergill and Helen Forbes, sends this enchanting piece on the Christingle service, which will be held today,…
Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey
The Buddhist Abbey at Throssel Hole, Carrshield, welcomes visitors on Festival Days to experience their contemplative service, meditation and ‘dharma’ (loosely translated as ‘the teachings’) for themselves. And afterwards to enjoy the fellowship of a lunch with the acolytes and…
Remembrance Sunday
The Lych Gate honours the fallen from this parish in both World Wars of the last century. Remembrance Sunday, when the Last Post is played at the memorial, is always the closest Sunday to Remembrance Day itself: the 11th of…
A Festival of Angels
From Seraphic Sopranos and edible Biscuit Angels, through Angelic Choirs, Angel Mosaics, Angels Amongst Us, and Angels from South African HIV Clinics, these few photographs represent some of the most moving submissions at the Angel Festival held in St. Cuthbert’s,…
Planning for the last third of the diary’s year . . .
Suddenly, we’re into the last third of the year, as a kind soul reminded me just as we turned into September. And since it’s a work term, maybe a prospective look at what’s coming up in this last big slice…
Mr Robin is back
I’m no ornithologist, but I kind of suspect that the crowds of finches that gathered around the bird feeding pad, along with assorted jackdaws, collared doves, the blackbird family, and Earnest the pea cock shaking his tail feathers, might have…
Hymns & Pimm’s
They’ve got 26 suggested hymns to get through, this evening, and organist June Welch and choir are working hard to make sure they can help lead them all. There would only be 25, but Shirley Brown had asked me, when…