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There are nine days between the Feast of the Ascension and the Feast of Pentecost. For many years it has been the tradition of the Church to use this time as a period of prayer, both for the Church and the world. In 2016, parishes up and down the country were invited by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to participate in nine days of prayer. This year, people from all over the world have responded to this invitation from many different Christian traditions. Called “Thy Kingdom Come”, this initiative has caught people’s imagination. At the same time, it has offered an invitation to those who wonder how to pray or who are unsure how to begin with prayer, to discover a whole range of rich resources for prayer. Some of these resources can be found on a website called “Thy Kingdom Come” ( https://www.thykingdomcome.global/). As we prepare for the Feast of Pentecost, I invite you to join in the following prayer.
Almighty God, who called your Church to witness that you were
in Christ reconciling the world to yourself: help us to proclaim
the good news of your love, that all who hear it may be drawn to
you; through him who was lifted up on the cross, and reigns with
you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Revd Dr William Lamb Vicar |
| | Services
—Monday - Friday at 9am Morning Prayer (Chancel)
Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Eucharist (Chancel) —
Sunday 4th June Pentecost
10.30am - Choral Eucharist
Preacher: The Rt Revd Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely Mass setting: Lassus, Missa Qual Donna Anthem: Palestrina, Dum complementur |
| | Exhibition: ‘Of Things Not Seen: A Year in the Life of a London Priest’
An exhibition of Jim Grover’s photographs following the daily work of a London Priest will on display in the Chancel from 24th May-6th June.
You are invited to the final night "private view " of the exhibition "Of Things Unseen" in the chancel on Tuesday, 6th June to meet the photographer Jim Grover. Drinks from 6.00pm to 7.00pm.
Please RSVP to charlottebannisterparker@gmail.com.
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| | Barbara Keen Funeral
Barbara Keen’s funeral will be on Thursday 15th June at 2.30pm in the Church. We continue to hold her family in our thoughts and prayers.
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| | A chance to think: an open study group for Pentecost
Following meetings in Lent, we will meet on Thursday June 8th and 15th at 12.45-13.30 following on from the 12.15pm Eucharist.
Bring your own sandwiches. Tea and coffee provided.
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| | | Architecture and the Medieval Mind
A six-part series of talks on the important role that architecture – both physical and representational – played in the imaginative, artistic, and theological life of early medieval England.
7th June: Meg Boulton – ‘Set in Stone’:
Constructing Christianity in the Anglo-Saxon Crypts of Hexham and Ripon
Dr Meg Boulton, art historian focusing on representations and interpretations of sacred space, will take us into the underground world of the rare seventh-century crypts attached to the important Anglo-Saxon monastic foundations of Ripon and Hexham. Constructed by Wilfrid, the controversial Northumbrian bishop and saint, these crypts provide a dramatic example of the symbolism of architectural space in the early medieval imagination.
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| | | Poetry Corner
“By the end of the second day a very fine head was revealed. Yes, a very fine head indeed, sharp beard, drooped mustache, heavy-lidded eyes outlined black. And no cinnabar on the lips; that was a measure of my painter’s caliber: excitingly as cinnabar first comes over, he’d known that, given twenty years, lime would blacken it. And, as the first tinges of garment appeared, that prince of blues, ultramarine ground from lapis lazuli, began to show—that really confirmed his class—he must have fiddled it from a monastic job—no village church could have run to such expense. (And abbeys only took on the top men.) But it was the head, the face, which set a seal on his quality.”
- J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country (1980)
On Wednesday, Rev Dr Mark Clavier gave a talk in the Old Library as part of the Architecture & the Medieval Mind series. Entitled Holy Spaces, Holy People, Holy Time, the talk explored the social imaginary in the middle ages through the spaces people occupied. In particular, Clavier focussed on South Leigh church, ten miles from Oxford, which features some spectacular wall paintings. These, he argued, would have been the only images that some of the congregants would have encountered on a regular basis (we, on the other hand, see an average of 5,000 images daily). The images of Doomsday in the parish church would have been frightening but also very familiar to the congregation – the characters depicted would, in some sense, have been mapped into people’s social circle just as much as living people. The faces weren’t supposed to be abstract and remote, but immediate and recognisable.
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