by Church Admin | Nov 1, 2020 | Saint Of The Month
According to Bede, Hilda was born in 614 into the Deiran royal household. There was much fighting between the various Royal Households of the time and by the time she was two years old Hilda had been taken to the court of King Edwin, King of the newly formed Kingdom...
by R Moffat | Aug 7, 2020 | Saint Of The Month
On the 13th of August the Church of England commemorates the life, work, and faith of Florence Nightingale OM RRC DStJ. It is no hyperbole that the nursing profession as we know it today exists largely because of Florence Nightingale. Florence was born on 12 May 1820...
by Church Admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Saint Of The Month
To me, St Thomas is a larger than life figure, who was not the sort to let his master (Jesus) get away with something that he, Thomas, did not understand. No doubt (forgive the pun) we, as Christians, should be thankful for Thomas’s enquiring mind and questions, as...
by Church Admin | May 29, 2020 | Saint Of The Month
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not “follow the footsteps of his most holy life” by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and...
by Church Admin | May 7, 2020 | Saint Of The Month
The Saint of the Month for May, I thought, should be Julian of Norwich. There were several that I could have written about but with our recent situation I thought she would be perhaps someone we could identify with. The words that on reading struck me were these: For...
by Church Admin | Apr 6, 2020 | Saint Of The Month
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German evangelical pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity’s role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship...
