The Angel Festival at St. Cuthbert’s is scheduled for sometime the end of September, but there are early heads-up notices circulating around the parish already. It probably takes a lot of work to create an angel suitable for presentation! All…
Category: Faith and Worship
Allen Valley Churches Together . . .
Ann Potter writes to chat about a walk organised by AVCT recently: ” Allen Valley Churches Together organised a local walk from Allendale to Sinderhope last month. The total route was 7.5 miles and, to ensure accessibility for walkers able…
Post-Lenten penance
Err, Lent is supposed to be finished by Easter Sunday. That is to say, having gone through the rituals of self-abnegation and small or large tortures inflicted upon ourselves to represent the sins we all carry with us, Christians are…
Easter Sunday
It was the late Bishop of Durham, the Reverend David Jenkins, who opined that the resurrection which encapsulates Christianity was “not just a conjuring trick with a bag of bones”. Blunt, but frank, at least. How he loved controversy, yet…
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is so-called because of the heraldic procession as reported in the Bible’s Gospels, of a triumphant, but humble Jesus through the streets of Jerusalem in great acclaim, with palm branches being strewn in the path of the new…
Not just on Sundays
Ann Potter writes to chat about some of the services on offer at Catton Chapel: ”Catton Chapel was built in 1882. Over the years it has undergone some major changes like removal of the spire. In 2003 major renovations created…
Mothering Sunday
I know that the secularisation of this day is all around us, since most things Americana get here eventually, but the significance of this day is possibly not known to many people. Certainly I didn’t know where the term came…
Friends Meeting House
A little row of gravestones stands in front of the Meeting House, dating back to the end of the 17th Century (a Meeting House was built on the site in 1688, replaced in 1735, and rebuilt in the late 1860s)…
Keenley Methodist Chapel, the oldest of them all
Today at 2:30pm, a faithful congregation of some five souls will gather at Keenley Methodist Chapel, keeping the tradition and the faith alive in the deep countryside. Services are every fortnight — today Rev’d Alex Dunstan leads the service of…
I’m fixing a hole . . .
. . . where the rain gets in. The friendly gent organising the removal of the scaffolding around Trinity Methodist Church was happy to tell me what the job had been about. Apparently the very long lintel, which extends from…