This week’s services & events
- Saturday 18th May
- 9:30 am: Parish Activity DayOn Saturday 18 May we’re building on our successful parish weekend through a parish activity day at St Mark's Church: Nurturing Community – ‘In the Spirit!’.
- Sunday 19th May
- 8:00 am: Holy CommunionService follows the Book of Common Prayer
- 10:00 am: The Parish EucharistThe main act of worship for the whole community. Children's groups and a crèche run concurrently. Sunday lunch is served at 12.15 pm for those who would like to stay. Preacher: CTBB Pentecost Service
- 8:00 pm: Night Service - Taizé/Sung Compline.A night service in the style of a Taizé prayer or short service of Sung Compline (to be confirmed) led by Anne Padget and Alison Creasey.
- Thursday 23rd May
- 11:00 am: Pondering the Parables discussion groupPONDERING THE PARABLES After Holy Communion on Thursdays, 11.00am.
- Saturday 18th May
Tag Archives: wisdom
The Foolishness of the Cross
Opening Prayer Christ of the passion, as we gather in your name, lead us deeper into the wisdom revealed in your suffering and embodied on the cross; rid us of the fear of being judged foolish for owning your name … Continue reading
March 29, 2013
in Resources, Sermons
Tagged cross, foolishness, Good Friday, Jesus, love, sacrifice, wisdom
Wisdom is Waiting
Moments of great calm, kneeling before an altar of wood in a stone church in summer, waiting for God to speak; the air a staircase for silence; the sun’s light ringing me, as though I acted a great role. And the audience still; all that close throng of spirits waiting, as I, for the message. Prompt me, God; But not yet. When I speak, though it be you who speak through me, something is lost. The meaning is in the waiting. Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: Embracing Wisdom
THEOLOGY as a discipline is not a Christian innovation. We know that there were Jewish theologians in first century Palestine, principally exegetes of Torah (Genesis – Deuteronomy). And although the body of rabbinic interpretative literature we possess comes from the … Continue reading