View from the Vicarage : October 2014

In St John’s gospel chapter 21 Jesus prayed that his disciples might be united. He says, “The glory that thou hast given me I have given to them , that they may be one even as we are one”. During the celebration of Holy Communion the priest breaks the host and the...

View From The Vicarage : June 2014

As I look out of the Vicarage window on this May morning rain is pouring down and saturating the splashing the wild bird’s food tray. Yesterday our Harry played his last cricket match for his School (incidentally, batting superbly for 25 overs) bathed in Mediterranean...

View From The Vicarage : May 2014

May is turning out to be a very busy month indeed. The Bishop of Bolton is with us to tell his vocation story, the Archdeacon’s visitation is followed in the same week by the ‘Four Nations’ Dinner at the Golf Club; the wedding season gets into full...

View From The Vicarage : April 2014

In my view it is perhaps the Maundy Thursday Vigil that is the single, most prayerful and spiritual acts of worship that takes place each year in this Church. It begins with the celebration of Holy Communion and moves through to the stripping of the Altar when, quite...

View From The Vicarage : March 2014

There is an awful lot going on in Lent that I hope will refresh and renew our collective commitment to the Church and feed our own spiritual lives as we move along on our Christian pilgramage. The Lenten Sudy Group was “Sold Out” even before it was...