Less is More On Sunday 17 September our church will become the venue for the UK premier of a new work by Arvo Pärt, his Greater Antiphones for string orchestra. He is currently the most performed living composer in the world. He developed his unique and distinctive style of music in the mid 1970ies after […]
Tuesday this week (29 August) commemorates ‘The Death of John the Baptist’ (Mark 6. 17-29 & Matthew 14). This is the only time in the gospels when we get near tabloid quality writing, it’s all there: power, sex, child-abuse, violent torture and most foul murder. Indeed, artists, composers and playwrights have been inspired by […]
The Essence of Prayer Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and sometime curate of our Vicar, Sarah Coakley reminds us of a surprising truth about ‘prayer’: the story of St Augustin when he was asked about prayer. It was the recently bereaved widow Proba who asked St Augustin about prayer. She who was devastated by […]
‘Dormition’ August is a month for holidays! If you have ever travelled in areas where the Christian Orthodox Church is more visible during the month of August, you will have noticed that on the 15th of August the Orthodox church celebrates the great festival of the ‘Dormition’, that is the ‘falling asleep’ of the Virgin […]
During the month of August, the Sunday Gospel readings are extracts from chapters 14 to 16 of St Matthew’s Gospel. Many people see these chapters as Jesus laying down the foundation of the church. As we would expect Jesus is not doing this by giving his disciples a ready-made constitution a blue print mainly to […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
