The Feast of Candlemas, which the church celebrates this Sunday, is an ancient holy time. It comes 40 days after Christmas marking the end of the glorious season of […]

January 2021 Dear Friends, Epiphanytide, the weeks following Christmas, the most beautiful of church seasons, is a time of revelation and truth. The stark outline of trees against an ever-changing […]

In the New Testament, peace has nothing to do with pastel painted scenes of beaches and waterfalls and mindfulness exercises to attain inner peace. Peace comes through struggle and pain. When […]

Dear Friends, Historians are in demand these days. Medieval archaeologists have been examining the impact of the Black Death that killed roughly half the known population of Europe, North Africa, […]

Dear Friends,   For the past month we have been marking ‘Creationtide’. This is a relatively new season in the church calendar, established in 2007 by Churches Together in Britain […]

Dear Friends,   SEPTEMBER 2020   As many amongst us face a ‘new term’ in these challenging times, the psalms invite us to ‘Sing to the Lord a new song…’ […]

ST PETER’S RE-OPENS for A Service of the Word from Sunday 2 August Dear Friends, We cannot sing, but we will not be without music. The order of service will be different from […]

TRINITY 4 July 5   Dear Friends, The PCC is working on plans to gradually reopen St Peter’s in the coming weeks. The Church of England is advising churches to […]

Dear Friends, The sun always shines on St Peter’s Day – or so we always remember our patronal festival on the last Sunday in June, celebrated with a bring-and-share lunch […]

TRINITY 2 Sunday 21 June   Dear Friends, St Peter’s has a long history of welcoming black people from the Caribbean and West Africa. In the 1950s, pioneering Fr John […]