The church calls today Mothering Sunday, the secular world calls it Mother’s Day. To me the ‘Mother’s Day’ tag is rather limiting, because we are encouraged to shower one person with cards, flowers and gifts, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but the church’s preference for ‘Mothering Sunday’ implies a far more inclusive […]
Services this Sunday The church will be open from 7.30 am to 12.30pm The 8am Holy Eucharist will take place as usual. The 10am service, with much larger numbers, will not take place. Notices and Banns will be read at 10.50 The church will be open for prayer as often as possible during the week. […]
Exodus 2: 1-10 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with […]
At times of national crisis such as the one we currently facing, people have often turned to the church for support as a source of strength and hope. In this crisis, however, we have to learn to ‘do church differently’. Because official advice is that assembling in great numbers in public is not a good […]
Readings 10.00am Sunday 15 March 2020 Collect Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
