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Today is Shrove Tuesday, when one tradition tells us we should eat pancakes.Using up perishable food stuffs before starting a period of fasting makes good sense.Could feasting on pancakes obscure the link with and reason for fasting? In her BBC … Continue reading →

AND WHAT A QUIZ NIGHT it was on Saturday 26 February!!Great teams, great cakes, great atmosphere.It was enough to make you want to do it again – which is just as wellas we’ve had feedback expressing precisely that hope. 🙂 … Continue reading →

(From the guest editor)Chelmsford Diocese Tweeted today: Fairtrade Fortnight starts tomorrow until 6 March. Pray for fairness and justice in our trading system globally, for fair prices for producers and a wide perspective for consumers in the impact of their … Continue reading →

This will be observed during the week 18-25 January and is also the subject of the Midweek Reflection by Revd Erwin Lammens this week.

This has now been posted on the on-line services page.Glyn Stanway contemplates the fruit of the Spirit. Today:kindness.

Revd Erwin gives an overview of the services at St Mary’s on and off line.

….when they so impressed us with their exuberant joy on the visit to us in 2019? We learned from a recently received letter that the choir has been severely limited in its usual round the world activities during this Covid19 … Continue reading →

With Revd Dr Sara Batts-Neale.This week’s video has been posted on the online services page (under ‘services’ tab above), which is where in future all Midweek Reflections will be posted. on Thursdays.