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Dear Parish Friends Yesterday, Tuesday 29th September, we celebrated the feast of St Michael and All Angels. This is special to June and myself, as we were married in the church of St Michael and All Angels in Headingly, Leeds (just round the corner from the Yorkshire County Cricket Ground!). What are angels? They are certainly scriptural, being mentioned 338 times in the bible (with 79 of these in the book of Revelation). They are messengers of God. The angel of the Lord tol

We will be celebrating St Luke’s Day this year on Sunday 18th October with Bishop John Roundhill, who will be with us for both services that morning. At the 9am service we will also be rededicating the sanctuary lamp that was removed from St Aidan’s before it was closed. It will be re-hung in St Luke’s near the pulpit. Given the current Coronavirus restrictions on the numbers we can have in our building, please pre-register your attendance via Eventbrite (click here). The 9am

Dear Parish Friends I gain much inspiration from the daily readings of Evening Prayer. Tonight we read from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians: Be filled with the Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 6,18b-20) When we meet together we sing because in essence, we do what the peop

Dear Parish Friends Last night the Parish Council voted to proceed with the proposed Anglican Early Learning Centre on our site at St. Luke’s. I realise that this is committing us to a long journey as we finalise the plans and then live with the disruption of the building works and other changes. I know too that for many we embark with a sense of trepidation as we strike out from what we know and love of the past and present. The Anglican way is to acknowledge, respect and le

Dear Parish Friends One of the benefits of the Anglican tradition of Morning and Evening Prayer is that one systematically reads through much of the bible, rather than just jumping around. This means that we get to hear some passages that never make it into the Sunday lectionary. In the last couple of weeks, at Evening Prayer, we have been reading the books of Tobit and Judith. Maybe you haven’t heard of these books. These are two of the books that, in Protestant bibles, are

Dear Parish Friends This week we have had the fourth in the series of studies inspired by the musical Jesus Christ Superstar and this time the topic was ‘the church’. When we think of what the church is, we clearly need to look beyond the physical building, which is just the place where the church, the body of Christ sometimes meets. The author of the study, Bishop David Wilbourne, encouraged us to think about images of the church and by implication what is our purpose. He wr