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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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amd215
Nov 22, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Nov 4, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Oct 28, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Oct 21, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Oct 14, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Oct 8, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Sep 30, 20211 min read
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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amd215
Sep 23, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Sep 17, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Sep 1, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Aug 18, 20212 min read
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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amd215
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jul 29, 20212 min read
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...
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Devin McLachlan
Jul 22, 20211 min read
Charity and Love
In his speech to the House of Commons last week in the debate on overseas aid, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said: I know that a deep...
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Rev Devin
Jul 14, 20212 min read
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...
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Devin McLachlan
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jul 2, 20212 min read
A spectacular Friday concert
Alina Vorobyeva (clarinet) and Anastasia Matkovskaia (piano) stunned us with the quality of their music at a recital in Great St Mary's,...
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Devin McLachlan
Jun 30, 20212 min read
Heavy stuff
Last September - which feels like a very long time ago indeed - Shirley was ordained priest and David deacon. This coming weekend, David...
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