Ascension This week we celebrate Ascension Day. 40 days of the Easter period have passed, and we celebrate that Jesus now ascends into heaven and lives there with God his father, in fact as one with him again. St Luke furnishes us with two accounts of the Ascension of Christ: One at the end […]
Lamb of God This painting of the Lamb of God (‘Agnus Dei’) is part of a special exhibition of works by the Spanish baroque painter Zurbaran, opening at the National Gallery this weekend. Zurbaran is sometimes called the ‘Spanish Caravaggio’, because off the way he managed to paint light in his paintings and the […]
Vocation Today is Vocations Sunday when we think and pray for the need of the church for priests, deacons, religious community members and lay leaders. We pray that the people who are starting to hear a whisper of a calling, the call that they know is not their conscious mind, may follow it. It’s […]
In this Diocese our Vacancy in See Committee has started meeting to start the search for a new Bishop of this Diocese, to succeed Bishop Christopher, Bishop of Southwark, who is retiring this summer. We have been circulated with this prayer to support the work of the committee. A vacancy prayer God […]
Salvation Sometimes the greatest miracle is just waking up to a new day. If you have had a serious illness or an operation, or survived an accident, you will know the feeling. You see the world with new eyes: everything is still here and you are in it, and it’s wonderful. While the feeling […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
