The whole people of God of our three churches are back at home and absent from our church buildings for the third period since last March. We are in solidarity with the nation, we are supporting our NHS; but we are sad not to gather...
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In a normal year at Christmas there is a time when everyone has to make plans and decide who they are going to visit this year. Married couples or partners will be making sure to take it in turns between parents, Aunts and Uncles which...
In Paul’s 1st letter to the Thessalonians he encouraged them to rejoice always, this runs contrary to what most of us are feeling with the kind of year we have all had. Some have lost close family and friends to the virus, jobs and homes...
In Roman-occupied Palestine during the 1st Century an extraordinary, shocking event happened that shook the Jewish faith to its foundations. It was a pivotal moment in the history of religion, and took place at the heart of the Holy Land. Download the service sheet. Now if I ask...
Advent 1st Sunday Year B, Mark 13:24-37 To begin I like to ask if you can recollect the start of the school year a couple of months ago which seems to be a long time ago. Now that you are thinking about the start of the...
Thanksgiving and Loss/Christ the King (Matthew 25.31-end) If today’s service is packaged as one which is a gift to our community and to our cultural moment; tapping into the broad sense in which we have lost so much this year; but might also have found things...
Do I know you? A question I ask myself as someone comes towards me in the street; since we all started wearing masks it can be tricky. Added to which we are all trying to steer a course away from each other, and so, getting...
National Safeguarding Communications 2020 Merton Priory Churches are supporting National Safeguarding Adults Week #SafeguardingAdultsWeek to make people aware of the different types of abuse that some people experience. National Adult Safeguarding week starts on Monday 16 November – is an excellent opportunity to promote adult safeguarding and the...
1 Thessalonians 4.13-18 & Matthew 25.1-13 Here we are, my brothers and sisters, in a second national lockdown. We may feel glad about this step or resigned to it or disappointed or angry or all of the above and more. I wonder whether, as the people...
