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Christ the King

This last Sunday before Advent is known as Stir Up Sunday due to the Book of Common Prayer collect for today. This old name is much used now as it is linked to the idea of stirring the Christmas pudding although most puddings will have been maturing for some time. Many Anglicans can expect hear […]

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Corpus Christi 2020

Corpus Christi meaning Body of Christ is a feast of celebration and thanksgiving for the institution of the Holy Communion. It is kept today 11 June, a Thursday, to recall Maundy Thursday and we celebrate again because normally we can be more joyful now than in Holy Week. The Mass has been hard to find […]

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Corpus Christi 2020

Corpus Christi meaning Body of Christ is a feast of celebration and thanksgiving for the institution of the Holy Communion. It is kept today 11 June, a Thursday, to recall Maundy Thursday and we celebrate again because normally we can be more joyful now than in Holy Week. The Mass has been hard to find […]

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Pentecost 2020

There are no Whit Walks, no Goosnargh cakes, no petal showers and no rushes strewn in the aisles. But Sunday is Pentecost. “The churches are still locked,” writes Christopher Howse in Saturday’s Telegraph. “But that has never been an obstacle to the Holy Spirit.”

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Ascension Day 2020

Ascension Day on Thursday 21 May is the spiritual climax of the year. This Thursday marks Christ’s last resurrection appearance to the disciples who report seeing him ascend. St Paul said that Christ had been seen by over 500 men and women between resurrection (Easter) and ascension. For some years Ascension Day has been largely […]

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Rogation & walking

The sixth Sunday of Easter is also known as Rogation Sunday since many of this week’s Rogation walks now normally happen on the Sunday. Without the virus there would have been a tour of parish boundaries, known as beating the bounds, in Cambridge (Little St Mary’s), a procession through the town at Leighton Buzzard (The […]

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Liturgical year in the City

An unusual book has been quietly published during the current lock-down. A launch event would have highlighted the result of the special project which has been supported by a number of individuals, livery companies and churches in The City. Faith in the City of London by Niki Gorick is a photographic book depicting activities in […]

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Low Sunday 2020

Easter continues today Low Sunday 19 April with Alleluia!, unheard during Lent, coming at the gospel acclamation and the dismissal . We are still living the events in Jerusalem in real time and today’s gospel reading (St John 20: 19-31) is the account of what happened on the first Low Sunday. There are many names […]

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Hare Pie 2020

Letter in The Daily Telegraph on Easter Monday: Here’s to the hare pie and the bottle kicking SIR – I was interested to read in Helena Horton’s report (April 10) that Iron Age Britons idolised hares. Every Easter Monday, we host one of Britain’s oldest continuing sporting events: the Hallaton Bottle-Kicking and Hare-Pie Scramble. A […]

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Easter Monday 2020

No egg rolling at Preston or hare pie scrambling at Hallaton but it’s still Easter Monday. And it is still the second day of Easter. It will be Easter every day for forty days to Ascension Day on Thursday 21 May when we hope and pray that life will be a little better.

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