May you know afresh God’s call, invitation, grace and strength as you seek to serve him and draw others into his all-embracing love.

Dear All Saints and St Marys Welcome to all who are new to our churches and I hope that everyone new and old (and anywhere in between)...

Dear All Saints and St Mary’s This Sunday, at St Mary’s, we have an opportunity to continue our reflections on what it means to believe...

Greetings dear friends on this Trinity Sunday, Trinity Sunday celebrates how in the coming of the Holy Spirit, God is revealed to us as a...

Dear All Saints and St Mary's Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful people, and kindle in us the fire of your love! What a...

Dear All Saints and St Mary’s In this Sunday’s readings we continue our journey through the Acts of the Apostles, with an excerpt from...

Dear All Saints and St Marys This weeks readings take us deeper into the meaning of Easter, and what it can mean to be a Christian. We...

In Easter season we rejoice and proclaim the risen Lord. We give thanks for the new creation that the resurrection holds out to all in hope

This Sunday we continue to rejoice in the new life that God offers us through the resurrection of Jesus.

That is the power of faith and of a faith that is joyfully woven and committed to the resurrection.

Holy Week starts this Sunday. This week we enter into, as the very first friends of Jesus did

Press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of you... Philippians 3:12 Dear Friends, The 5th Sunday of lent is the...

As a Church family we come together for a myriad of reasons this Sunday and with it we bring ourselves, our stories, our lives to our church

“…our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ." – Philippians 3:20 ...

But the word “happy” jars slightly when linked to Lent in the same way perhaps that the word “Good” always feels slightly at odds with Frida

We live in uncertain times. Even when there is nothing practical that we can do, even when we don’t know what to pray for, we pray.

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, until the...

It has been a week of reflecting on love. The strength of love shown by a family. The strength of love seen in friendships.

Dear All Saints and St Mary’s This Sunday we have a variety of things to be thinking and praying about. It is the third Sunday of the...

t is a season in the church which invites us to understand a little more about God revealed in the person of Jesus Christ.

Greetings friends, This Sunday we remember and celebrate the glorious mystery of Christ’s Baptism. The gospel story is thrilling! The...

In this New Year when we wake up each new morning and see the sunrise (or hear raindrops tinkling on next door’s leaky gutter),

'Greetings, most favoured one! The Lord is with you!' - what reassuring words from the angel Gabriel to a surprised Mary!

Prophets throughout biblical and secular history have said and done things that challenge our norms and have been catalysts for change

Dear All Saints and St Marys On Tuesday I had the delight of being able to join Year 3 at Fishponds Academy to lead an Advent Assembly....

Dear All Saints and Saint Marys The season of Advent is a time to reflect on and prepare for the coming of Jesus. However, there has...

‘The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.’ Quite a title!

Dear All Saints and St Marys This Sunday we mark Remembrance. Alongside sisters and brothers around the world we will pause and stay...

All Saints Day is a wonderful point in the calendar because it turns the spotlight of honour onto ALL Saints – whether known or unknown...

Dear All Saints and St Marys I have been contemplating the challenge of balance in the last few days. How do we balance things in our...

"He is the radiance of God’s glory, the stamp of God’s very being, and he sustains the universe by his word of power." Hebrews 1.3 Dear...

Greetings All Saints and St Mary’s, Hope you have all had good weeks and known the God of goodness and mercy at work in your life. This...

Dear All Saints and St Marys It has struck me in the past week that the seasonal changes that happen in autumn are much more present and...

Dear All Saints and St Marys – Blessings. September often brings with it a sense of the “new”. A new start for so many as schools go...

Dear Sisters and Brothers As the Bank holiday Weekend begins its good to be able to look forward to the next few days and what that...

Paul tells us to do two things. First, having prepared ourselves, we need to stand up to challenge the evil that is in the world. Secondly,

'Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us'.

One of the suggested lectionary-themed hymns this week begins with the line: “Awake my soul, stretch every nerve”.

Dear All Saints and St Marys Blessings Today is the feast of Ignatius of Loyola – who lived in 1491-1556 in Spain. He is perhaps famously...

How kind have you been to others this week? How gentle have you been to yourself?

Dear All Saints and St Marys This weekend, and last weekend, are often called “Petertide”. After Saint Peter no less! St Peter and St...

Fairness and generosity are at the heart of Paul's plea to the church in Corinth in this week's New Testament reading

I have been pondering the phrase “The best laid plans...”. Its a proverb which speaks of how even some of the best plans can go awry.

It is this time in the ordinary cycle of the church that we are given a little space to settle into a familiar rhythm.

We think about living in the light of the Glory of God in our services this week

As part of the festival of Pentecost we celebrate the very beginning of the Church, a group of people from a multitude of places,

In these days from Ascension to Pentecost, the church embarks on a global season of prayer called They Kingdom Come.

Today – May the 8th - is also the day the Church remembers Julian of Norwich (1417). She was the first woman to have her writing published

3 simple prayers: Morning Lord... Lunchtime Lord... Evening Lord....

There is something rather wonderful about the Easter greeting. Its simple call and answer response.