Easter 2020

“I can’t wait till this is over with and we can get back to normal”. How many times have you heard that said or read that in the last few weeks? We yearn for a return to normality after the inconvenience, the boredom and the suffering of this current crisis. It will take some time…

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St. Mary Magdalene’s choir keep singing

St. Mary Magdalene’s Choir have taken to Zoom for their weekly rehearsals. Director of Music David Thornton hosts the practices, preparing a programme of hymns and anthems for the choir to sing. Paradoxically, David has to mute the individual participants other than himself so that the singers can make music together. He accompanies each item…

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April Parish Magazine

  The April Parish Magazine has been published! Thank you to Linda, the editor who put it all together; to Katie in the Parish Office who printed, collated and stapled it; to Katie and Brenda the distribution manager who devised a system for distribution; and to all the distributors, both regular and emergency helpers. We…

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Palm Sunday

A week, as Harold Wilson famously remarked, is a long time in politics. A week can be a very long time in anyone’s life, of course. I don’t know if any of you, watching old TV programmes, feel it seems a long time ago. Look at those full streets and those people in restaurants and…

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The Vicar’s Letter

It’s strange. It’s weird. It’s like a bad dream. These are some of the things that people have said to me over the last few days. Or rather shouted at me from over 2 metres away.There is an air of unreality about how events have unfolded so rapidly from early reports of a strange new…

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Keep in touch

Our regular pew sheet with readings and notices is available both online and as hard copies in a stand on the table near the glass door in church. The church should be open each day from 9 am – 5 pm. Please observe appropriate social distancing if anyone else is in the building. You can…

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