Annual Report 2017
The APCM meeting took place this week, amid much cheese! The report is available here
Holy Week with the Existentialists: Easter Sunday – Resurrection
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 […]
Holy Week with the Existentialists: 2017
“…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 Week with the Existentialists: Holy Saturday – The Silence
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 […]
Good Friday – The party at the foot of the cross
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 […]
Holy Week with the Existentialists: Good Friday – Suffering
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 […]
Holy Week with the Existentialists: Maundy Thursday – Love & Despair
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 […]
‘One Day Like This’ – The Holy Week Album
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.
Holy Week with the Existentialists: Wednesday – Betrayal
Wednesday – Betrayal Mt. 26:14-16; Mk. 14:10-11; Lk.22:1-6 “Now I know I’ve got a heart, because it’s breaking.” The Tin Man, The Wizard of Oz “One should not underestimate the courage it takes to heal from a human betrayal. Betrayal invariably affects the psyche to its deepest roots. When it is made conscious, it is […]
Holy Week with the Existentialists – Tuesday: Quiet/Questioning/Teaching
Tuesday – Quiet / Questioning / Teaching Mt. 21:23-24:51; Mk. 11:27-13:37; Lk.20:1-21:36 “Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing […]