St Swithin St Swithin’s Day, if it does rain Full forty days, it will remain St Swithin’s Day, if it be fair For forty days, t’will rain no mair St Swithin was a ninth century Anglo-Saxon saint, at the peak of his clerical career he was Bishop of Winchester and in the cathedral at […]
‘Looking for God………..’ After exploring a church in Italy, my 5-year-old granddaughter declared, ‘But we didn’t see God!’ Likewise, the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees in his explorations of the stars, revealed he had never come across God. So, what were they expecting to see? I imagine Mila envisioned a human version of God […]
Daily Prayer Now that we are settling into the famously long liturgical period of ‘Sundays after Trinity’, we will be having a lot of Gospel readings from the Gospel according to St Luke this year. As a gospel writer, Luke’s ancient symbol is the ox. Jesus is depicted as the powerful beast of burden, […]
Midsummer
Trinity The teaching of the Holy Trinity may seem a bit dry for those of us who like our understanding of God to be shaped by stories and pictures. But it is foundational for Christians because it defines who God is, how salvation is accomplished, and how we as believers relate to God and […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
