9.40am Good morning! I'm on the train on the way to the Chrism service at the Cathedral. This is where oils are blessed and distributed to the parishes for the year to come. The photo above is of the oil stocks that Nathan brough back from Rome for me, and one is for Baptism, one [...]
Tag: faith
The first week of Lent
Ash Wednesday 2018 marked several things. It was 5 liturgical years since I gave my first sermon to a small group gathered in Christ Church, Chester. It was our first Valentine's Day married. It was the last day my boss would be at work for over three weeks. It was also the first day of [...]
Waiting and Transforming: Advent
I've been thinking about writing a blog about advent for a couple of weeks, but there's just been so much to do with very little spare time! So now I find myself on Christmas Eve, with tomorrow's talk written, most things sorted in the house for The Big Day and a couple of moments to [...]
Musical Memories
I recently attended the 25th anniversary concert of the Youth Amateur Dramatics group that I was a part of in my teens. I have felt a blog about music coming for some time, since I wrote about some of the people who have helped to form me over the years in my old blog, Ordinand Adventures. [...]
Rev Poppy 