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.

Dear friends, I hope you have all had good weeks and perhaps have been able to enjoy the benefits of the next stage of lockdown easing. ...

Dear Sisters and Brothers of All Saints and St Marys It has been a delightful Easter Week, and one that has brought with it a sense of...

That is the shout - the cry - the rejoicing - the sound that echo’s around the world on this weekend. Easter is here.

We have been and will continue this week to be able to share together in person and online the Holiest of weeks in the Christian year

Hello All Saints and St Marys We are now well and truly emerging into the heart of Lent. Refreshment from mothering Sunday has passed, as...

Mothering Sunday is celebrated at a mid way point in Lent. It is a time of light relief when we join in celebrating in a different way.

Hello Everyone I hope that this finds you well and in good spirits. We are now in March. How did that happen? We are also now firmly into...

Greetings lovely people of All Saints and St Mary’s, Yet again this week we find ourselves making sense of a new ‘roadmap’ about how our...

Welcome to LENT! How did that happen? Especially when it feels that a lot of the last year has been a lentern experience.

Dear All Saints and St Marys On Ash Wednesday we will be having two services. Morning Prayer with Imposition of Ashes at 10am at St Marys...

This week we are having a slight change of format. Its our café church week and we are starting to look at prayer – “How do I Pray?”