Psalm 130 A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. I […]
Windrush Bishop Christopher has authorised the following Collect for Windrush Sunday, which is on 24 June. The hope is that clergy in all parishes throughout the Diocese will wish to use it to mark the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the MV Windrush and the subsequent contributions of the Windrush Generation […]
Job 38. 1-11 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. ‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have […]
The Christ, the Messiah in all of us Fr Anselm Grün, a Benedictine monk, tells the story of a failing religious community that may well have resonances for any church or religious group of friends that needs to find a renewed sense of their vocation to be God’s people. It’s the story of a monastery […]
1 Samuel 15. 34 – 16. 13 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord was sorry that he had made Saul king over Israel. The Lord […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
