During the week 1-10 September we will be hosting a ‘pop-up festival’ in East Reading, which will attempt to bring together and explore various issues pertinent to community life and our humanity. The festival is entitled ‘Dazzle’ – illuminated by the darkness. For many people, current issues the world is facing seem overwhelming; the fast-paced […]
Gary’s Essay for his 1st Eucharist at St John & St Stephen’s. 25 June 2017 Dan Flavin – The Surface of God Light and Nothingness Dan Flavin’s simple yet powerfully evocative light installations are beguiling to the eye and the senses. His fluorescent tubes poised at geometric angles evoke a new awareness of our surroundings. […]
The APCM meeting took place this week, amid much cheese! The report is available here
Easter Sunday – Resurrection Mt. 28:1-13; Mk. 16:1-20; Lk. 24:1-49; Jn. 20:1-31 “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so […]
“…we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of […]
Holy Saturday – The Silence “human being’s absence from the presence of God, a Deus absconditus, is but a reflection of God’s exile from God’s self” . Ralph Harper “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest […]
Music highlights (in no particular order) Samuel Barber – String Quartet in B Minor, Op 11 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Sea of Vapours Guy Sigsworth – O Virtus Sapienta Arvo Part – Cantus in Memorium Benjamin Britten Brian Eno – Lux Jam & Spoon – Ancient Dream John Tavener – Song for Athene Gabriel […]
Good Friday – Suffering Mt. 27:1-66; Mk. 15:1-47; Lk.22:66-23:56; Jn. 18:28-19:37 “…we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so […]
Maundy Thursday – Love & Despair Mt. 26:17-46; Mk. 14:12-52; Lk.22:7-65; Jn. 13:1-30, 18:1-11 “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a […]
For those following the Holy Week meditations, the full compilation album ‘One Day Like This’ was made available in church on Sunday. The Spotify embed is below; If you are still having trouble getting the album, please make contact through the Church Office, and Gary will sort something out.