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Community Hub Campaign
On Wednesday 15th March, we launched the Big Appeal for the Community Hub. St George's has engaged in a listening exercise with residents, groups, and businesses, which showed clearly that what the area now needs more than anything are shared, safe spaces at its...
Lent at St George’s
A number of Lent groups are underway, some studying The Falling of Dusk by Paul Dominiak, another viewing and reflecting on Angels in America, the National Theatre production of Tony Kushner’s award winning work. For the duration of Lent there will be a box at the...
A Christmas Reflection, by Joan Grenfell
‘Holy night, silent night… all is calm.’ My Christmas day spent with 2 noisily excited grandchildren vying for my attention, seemed a long way from the silence and calm of that Holy night of the well-known Christmas carol. And yet, in a world characterised by noise...
Lectio Divina – by Revd. Ollie Dempsey
With a new month comes a new liturgical season, however, much is different for us this Lent. For the Church, there has been a longer gap between the end of the incarnation season (Christmas to Candlemas) and the start of this traditional season of penitence - last...
A Thought for Pentecost, by Joan Grenfell
Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter Day. It recalls the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples waiting in the upper room for this promised gift. Some of you will remember, as I do, growing up with Whitsunday being the name of the Sunday recalling...
A Thought for Ascension Day, by Joan Grenfell
I don’t do ‘goodbyes’ very well. I find them too emotional, too painful. When I left, after 7 years, my first teaching post, I could not bring myself to be present in the staff room for the traditional ‘saying goodbye’. I had enjoyed the 7 years and had made good...
A Thought for Easter Day, by Joan Grenfell
‘Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus….. And behold 2...
A Thought for Good Friday, by Joan Grenfell
‘When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, ‘It is finished.’ And he bowed His head, and gave up his spirit.’ ‘It is finished!’ is a common enough expression which each of us will have used perhaps many times during our lives……. as when that...
A Thought for Maundy Thursday, by Joan Grenfell
‘ I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another,’ Maundy Thursday is an important date in the Royal calendar. It is the day on which the Queen visits cathedrals around the country to present a...
A Thought for Palm Sunday, by Joan Grenfell
‘Those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Pilate spoke to the crowd again. ‘Then what do you want me to do with the man you call King of the Jews?’ They shouted back, ‘Crucify him!’...