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inspiration in your inbox Saturday 29th April 2023 Hildegard of Bingen 1098 – 1179 Hildegard receiving a visionUnknown author – Miniature from the Rupertsberg Codex of Liber Scivias. Information Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner […]
Peters, Hans / Anefo © Dutch National Archives Information Helder Camara was born in the poor North East region of Brazil of an accountant father and primary school teaching mother. He entered the seminary in 1923 and was ordained in 1931 with a papal dispensation as he was below the normal ordination minimum age of […]
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Introduction The period between the fall of Rome and the emergence of mediaeval European culture has come to be called the Dark Ages. For schoolchildren in Ireland it’s really where the national story begins. The gist of the mythic tale is expressed in a book with the unassuming title “How the Irish Saved Civilisation”, and […]
Worship Notes Dear Friends, Each week we gather in church and chapel, community centre or around a screen to worship. In worship we find God – in the music and silence, in the word read and proclaimed, in bread and wine and in each other. Faithfully, week after week, ministers, elders, and lay preachers lead […]
Tuesday 25th April 2023 St Hild of Whitby, abbess (614 – 680) image from CatholicIreland.net Introduction Hild was an important figure in the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognised for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice. The source of information about Hilda is the Ecclesiastical History […]
image from https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2018/10/saint-james-deacon.html Introduction There is a river in north Northumberland near Crookham called Pallinsburn, named after Paulinus, who was a key figure in Pope Gregory the Great’s mission to these islands in the late 6th century, before the monastic community on Holy Island had been conceived. Working northwards from Canterbury, the Gregorian mission reached […]
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 23 April Today’s service is led by the Revd Dr Michael Hopkins. Welcome & Call to Worship Whoever you are, wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here. Welcome to this service from the United Reformed Church. My name is Michael Hopkins, I’m minister of group of […]
