Sometimes through the seemingly diverse things we do, a common thread appears. We notice that a conversation topic with a friend seems to be repeated in a TV programme and then pops up in something we are reading and then again in a comment made by someone else at work. Over the last few weeks…
Last month we reported that Deacon Ken had been in hospital and then was at home resting. He continues to make a good recovery, but is still ‘taking things’ easy and will be ‘off duty’ for a while longer. He has asked us to express his appreciation for all the cards and good wishes he…
Good News! As we continue to celebrate the Good News of the Resurrection, I’ve been thinking how much has happened since Holy Week. How many miles have some of us walked or travelled since then? Some have made journeys of discovery and refreshment, some have had the profound challenge of putting one foot in front…
Writing articles before an event is sooner or later going to catch you out! Last month we thanked Canon Peter Leonard for preaching at the Triduum for us. He started his sermon series on Maundy Thursday and tantalised us with a theme and opening thoughts…. But the next day he contacted Father Bob to say…
This year the early date for Easter has given us an opportunity to hold our Annual meetings in the space between Easter and the May Fayre. As always, the link between these events is one that occupies my mind (and my time!). There is much in common between them – as they all remind us…
The last month has been a month of mixed emotions at Saint Wilfrid’s. We have continued to enjoy the Soup Lunches and have joined with Saint Mary’s and Saint Faith’s in raising funds for the Bishop’s Lent Appeal. Thank you to all who have supported them, and all who have provided them. Thank you also…
We were celebrating the first signs of spring recently. Lovely daffodils appeared in Landport as the days began to lengthen. Then the “Mini Beast from the East” visited and gave the spring buds a hefty dusting of snow. Is it winter? Is it spring? Perhaps a little of both. As we stand on the cusp…
This year saw a ‘first’ in Holy Week. We welcomed Saint Edmund’s Catholic School for their end of term Stations of the Cross on Maundy Thursday. The school has grown so much in recent years that it is a squeeze to fit into Saint John’s Cathedral and so Canon Dominic, the Dean, suggested they should…
How does an Easter Egg help us share the Easter story? Or to be more accurate, how do 550 Easter eggs help us to explain the Easter story? That is a question I have been asking (and exploring the answer with) across the Parish over the last few days. As you know, we have once…
March 2018 Saint Wilfrid’s News It was good to welcome the Panto Players to the Church and to share the space with them for a week in February. The flexibility of the space and the adaptability that enable it one night to be a theatre and the next day to be a worship space reminds…