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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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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jan 28, 20212 min read
This little light of mine...
This week's reflection comes from Rev'd Devin McLachlan, our Associate Vicar Candlemas is just around the corner; we’ll be marking this...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jan 23, 20212 min read
Holocaust Memorial Day
Today's reflection is from our curate, Rev'd Andrew Day I grew up with four grandmothers, and for that matter with four grandfathers, two...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jan 14, 20212 min read
Abide in my love
This week's 'From the Vicar' comes from the Rev'd Devin McLachlan, Associate Vicar Tuesday's sonic boom was the last straw after a week...
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Devin McLachlan
Jan 7, 20212 min read
The Orchestra of Christ
There was no audience in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein. But this year's New Year's Day concert, broadcast live from Vienna, was one...
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Devin McLachlan
Dec 31, 20202 min read
Home is where the heart is
I called an elderly member of this church the other day to see what he would be doing for Christmas. ‘Are you in a support bubble?’ I...
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Devin McLachlan
Dec 23, 20202 min read
The Present is a Gift
This poem by Mary Oliver is called The Gift. It is a masterpiece. Here are seventy-one words which reward slow, considered reading: Be...
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Devin McLachlan
Dec 17, 20203 min read
Bethlehem Down
I am going to take a risk this week. I am going to tell you how I am. Not how I am feeling – but how I actually am. I am depressed. Not...
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Devin McLachlan
Dec 10, 20202 min read
The Leper Chapel's Touch
I suppose that many reading this have, like me, found themselves sitting in a queue of traffic on the Newmarket Road, and gazed wistfully...
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Devin McLachlan
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Healing in his wings
I hope you’ve booked your seat, or bookmarked the livestream link, for one of our many carol services this year. Even though we are...
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From Darkness into Light
Dec 2, 20201 min read
From Darkness into Light
From Darkness into Light 1st December 2020 Advent 1 O Sapientia - O Wisdom O Wisdom, Which camest forth out of the mouth of the Most...
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Devin McLachlan
Nov 26, 20202 min read
The Meaning is in the waiting
Psalm 40 expresses the longing of the heart for the coming of the God. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and...
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Devin McLachlan
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Blessed Cecilia
This coming Sunday, November 22nd, is many things. It is the feast of Christ the King; it is Stir-Up Sunday (from the Prayer Book Collect...
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Devin McLachlan
Nov 12, 20202 min read
Father Forgive
80 years ago this coming Saturday, November 14th 1940, Operation Moonlight Sonata took place in the skies over Coventry. The town boomed...
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Devin McLachlan
Nov 5, 20202 min read
The Endless Poetry
It’s widely acknowledged amongst fans of the TV comedy Blackadder that the 4th series, Blackadder Goes Forth, was the most brilliant. My...
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Devin McLachlan
Oct 22, 20203 min read
Good Companions
I have been thinking a great deal this week about former Vicars of Great St Mary's. Two reasons: first, on Monday one came to preach;...
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Devin McLachlan
Oct 15, 20202 min read
What the hell is wrong with me?
As Shirley and David will confirm (having been the latest of our lot to undergo the process) while ordination confers holy orders, it...
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Devin McLachlan
Oct 8, 20202 min read
Sweet Reasonableness
Matthew Arnold could not be described as an orthodox Christian, or even, possibly, a Christian at all – but he was a significant...
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Devin McLachlan
Oct 1, 20202 min read
Cathedral Thinking
All are Called It was great to be in Ely Cathedral on Sunday afternoon for David's deaconing. You don't need me to tell you what an...
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Devin McLachlan
Sep 23, 20202 min read
All Are Called
The ordinations this weekend of Shirley Holder (to the priesthood) and David Bagnall (to the diaconate) are occasions of great rejoicing...
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Devin McLachlan
Sep 17, 20203 min read
Speaking Truth to Power
I spoke to two members of parliament last week. One, unsurprisingly, was our very own MP, Daniel Zeichner. Daniel, not for the first...
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