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ST GEORGE OF ENGLAND & MOSCOW

Today is St George’s Day. St George is patron of England, Moscow & lots of other places. “Of course, St George was not English and never came here,” said Dean of Southwark Andrew Nunn in a sermon yesterday. “He’s not exclusively ours and in fact is Patron Saint in one way or another of 24 […]

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St George’s Day: Southwark celebrates

Southwark in London, with its ancient St George and Shakespeare associations, is always a focus on St George’s Day. The parish church is the oldest in London to be dedicated to England’s patron saint St George. The Roman Catholic Cathedral, built on St George’s Fields has a St George relic displayed on the feast day. […]

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Christians & Muslims honour Mary

Monday 9 April is the feast of the Annunciation when we recall the Virgin Mary first knowing that she was pregnant. In nine months it will be Christmas. This year the feast was postponed from its usual 25 March date because it coincided with Palm Sunday. Today the focus is on Nazareth where Mary was […]

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Low Sunday

Is the Sunday after Easter still called Low Sunday? Some people do refer to Low Sunday maybe because it feels less exciting than Easter Day. But it is increasingly known as Divine Mercy Sunday which was promoted by St John Paul II. Orthodox Christians talk about St Thomas Sunday which is appropriate because the Apostle […]

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Easter is only just starting

It’s Easter Tuesday today and we shall be in the Easter period until Ascension Day in early May. You can follow the season and all the special days over the next two months to Corpus Christi on Thursday 31 May in Keeping Lent & Easter. Available at Church House Bookshop and Southwark Cathedral Shop or […]

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Easter Monday: Hare pie scrambling & egg rolling

Heavy rain this morning will probably not dampen spirits at Hallaton in Leicestershire. There are hopes that it might only be drizzle this by this afternoon. The church is without an incumbent until the end of the month but Area Dean Alison Booker will be there this morning for the Bottle Kicking Service. She will receive […]

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Easter Day at last! Christ is Risen!

Christ is Risen! Churches have been reclaimed and refreshed for the coming year. This morning the Easter candle is alight in the sanctuary as we begin to live through the forty days of Easter. Christ is risen but not yet Ascended. We shall celebrate that on Ascension Day in May.

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Waiting for the Easter Vigil

  This is Holy Saturday, sometimes called Empty Saturday. ‘Easter Saturday’ is next week, in Easter week, after Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday. We are today in limbo awaiting the Easter Vigil tonight, or early tomorrow morning, when we can recognise Christ’s resurrection. Then we shall take the Light of Christ from the outdoor fire […]

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Good Friday & the Easter holiday debate

The Times has had a long debate about the future of the Easter holiday weekend which some people find difficult because it moves around. Christopher Howse had a good reply in The Daily Telegraph to calls for fixed Easter which would be difficult to achieve anyway. I suggest that there are many who, whilst not […]

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Good Friday

“Well I’m sorry, but I don’t think this is what Brother Thomas Rocliffe envisaged in St Albans in 1361 when he came up with the idea of distributing a bun to the local poor as a Good Friday treat,”  wrote Sophia Money-Coutts in The Sunday Telegraph. “The monk was absolutely not thinking of sticky toffee […]

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