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As you may have noticed, Fr Neil has recently discovered Twitter. He enjoys its format and, in the middle of writing his sermon, will often tweet. Getting his thoughts down to 140 characters helps with the process. He also likes keeping up with a selection of MotoGP riders. However, this morning Twitter was not interesting […]
Our fourth adult Lent group focused on the figure of the Father in the Prodigal Son. We began by looking carefully at Rembrandt’s painting, the focus for Henri Nouwen’s book. We noticed the difference in the two hands, showing the maternal and paternal nature of God’s love. There is a great love in the embrace […]
Last Thursday many of us gathered for the third of our adult Lent group. The theme was the Elder son. He was the one who stayed at home and yet in many ways was as lost as the younger son. The first quotes, from pages 69 to 71 in the book, sparked off discussion about […]
After last Thursday’s adult session, looking at the return of the younger son, Karlie wrote this poem: Cold loneliness I have unravelled And I try, I try To knit a suit of armor With these ragged cords That could connect me to others Warm bandage words wrap comfort around friends But applied to contain my […]
The Bible passage in the Office of Readings during Lent have been working through Exodus. It is a reminder to us of the link between the Passover and the rescue from Egypt and the Easter story. Today’s reading was the making of the Golden Calf. Many years ago, before Neil was ordained we went to […]
In Lent, our adult group is working its way through a course based on Henri Nouwen’s book, ‘The Return of the Prodigal”. The first session, on 14th February, we listened to extracts from the chapter entitled “The younger son leaves home.” Nouwen says that “Leaving home is…a denial of the spiritual reality that I belong […]
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The series of SPIRITUAL CONFERENCES held on Zoom, will continue this month, on the second and fourth Wednesdays, at 8.00pm. They will last 20-25 minutes, and we shall pray the Office of Compline afterwards. The Zoom links are as follows:
13th November – Fr Michael Halsall, Episcopal Vicar for Vocations & Formation
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Meeting ID: 873 2726 5054 / Passcode: 721287
27th November – Jenni Young, from the Whithorn Group in Scotland
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Meeting ID: 826 0869 7862 / Passcode: 185225
All Members, Associates, and Friends of the Ordinariate are welcome to join us, from around the British Isles and further afield , as are those interested in joining the Ordinariate.
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Tomorrow is the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity. Join us for Mass celebrated according to Divine Worship at 11:30am at Christ the King Church, Langney.
“And they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.”
The pew sheet is available at the link below. Notices will be added once they are prepared.
Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity
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Pew sheet for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity, 17 November 20240 CommentsComment on Facebook
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