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"From the Vicar"
Regular reflections from the Great St Mary's clergy team. You can also read these reflections by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, the eMag:
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Every inch a King
www.papalencyclicals.net may not be one of your regular online haunts, but, believe you me, it’s fascinating. Here is the place to find...
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
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Devotion and Discipline
Today, as well as being Armistice Day, is St Martin’s Day. Martin was born in 316 AD in what we now know as Hungary. He was soldier who,...
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Nov 11, 20212 min read
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The Month of the Dead
As descriptions of November go, it’s a pretty stark one. Perhaps more so when you know where I first heard it. Aged 19, with some fellow...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
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If not you, who?
For the last few weeks, you will have seen a picture of your beloved Vicar in this publication, grinning from ear to ear next to this...
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Oct 28, 20212 min read
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Read Mark and Learn
The story goes that, aged 31, Augustine of Hippo was in a personal crisis. A distinguished young professor of rhetoric in Milan, he was...
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Oct 21, 20212 min read
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Jesus bids us shine
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England as shall never be...
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Oct 14, 20212 min read
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Seasonal confusions
As servants of the message of hope, we are being asked to make autumn feel like spring. Andrew Read, Diocesan Director of Education &...
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Oct 8, 20212 min read
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Be an angel
Yesterday, two angels began new ministries in the church of God. One angel (I can hardly believe I’m writing this), our very own Andrew...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read
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Regathering the gathered
Last Saturday the Parochial Church Council (PCC) spent a happy and productive day together at Lucy Cavendish College. The day was made up...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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Surprised by a stone
Today – as you perhaps know – is St Ninian’s Day. The primary sources for what we know of Ninian is Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis...
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Sep 17, 20212 min read
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Anger and Kindness
In these days when everybody hates everybody else, anyone who is not snarling at something – or everything – is an anachronism. That...
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Sep 9, 20212 min read
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To live is to change
I have been blessed to work for some very good bishops in the dioceses of Lichfield, Coventry, and Oxford. My beloved Bishop (and friend)...
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Sep 2, 20212 min read
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The heat is on
As this is a double edition of the eMag, I am writing my letter early — and I happen to be writing it on what is technically the last of...
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Aug 19, 20212 min read
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Be kind to one another
Last Sunday I was worshipping in York Minster. The words of the Epistle, as always, struck at my heart: Be kind to one another,...
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Aug 12, 20211 min read
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Running the Race
I was pinged on Sunday last — and thus began four days of hardship and suffering as I was forced into self-isolation. However, to...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jul 30, 20212 min read
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Inclusion and change
Today's reflection is from the Associate Vicar, Rev'd Devin McLachlan "It's not inclusion if you invite people into a space you are...
Rev Devin
Jul 15, 20212 min read
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Ponder anew
In a PS at the end of last week's 'From the Vicar' I said that in the Hebrew Scriptures, the word for 'glory' derives from the Hebrew...
Devin McLachlan
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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Heavy stuff
Last September - which feels like a very long time ago indeed - Shirley was ordained priest and David deacon. This coming weekend, David...
Devin McLachlan
Jul 1, 20212 min read
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On the avoidance of spiritual bunions
I enjoyed sharing a piece from The Times with my ordained colleagues a couple of weeks ago. Titled 'Clergy were martyrs to medieval...
Devin McLachlan
Jun 24, 20212 min read
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Refugee Week 2021
This week's reflection is written by our curate Andrew Day ‘God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble’ [Ps. 47.1]...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jun 17, 20212 min read
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