Notices
A highlight of the recent church notices for the week
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Church Inclusive: Lent 4, 19 March 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans What an intense weekend this is with our Vestry Meeting on Sunday 19 March, the threat of national protests on Monday, and Human Rights Day for South…
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Church Inclusive: Transfiguration Sunday, 19 February 2023
Dear StFrancis, Dearly Beloved Franciscans This Sunday we complete the cycle of Epiphany in our liturgical calendar as we celebrate The Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus. It almost feels “heartless”…
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Church Inclusive: Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany, 12 February 2023
Dear StFrancis, Dear Franciscans Please join us on Sunday as we continue looking at Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. How are we called to live? Jesus is interested in what it…
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Church Inclusive: Fifth Sunday After The Epiphany, 5 February 2023
Dear Franciscans, On Sunday we are considering what Jesus means when he calls us to be the “salt of the earth.” It is a saying we know well and use to…
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Church Inclusive: Fourth Sunday After The Epiphany, 29 January 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans As I was writing this preface on Friday afternoon, the desperately sad news arrived on my ‘phone of the death of a Form III girl at St…
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Church Inclusive: Third Sunday After The Epiphany, 22 January 2023
Dearly Beloved Franciscans When we stumble or fall, does not the possibility exist of being helped up or helping ourselves to steady ourselves and resume what we were doing in…
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Church Inclusive: Third Sunday of Advent, 11 December 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans How blessed we are to be God-touched through the grace of having The Revd James Martin ordained to the priesthood on Saturday, 09 December 2022. Every ordination,…
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Church Inclusive: Second Sunday of Advent, 4 December 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans This week’s Advent candle calls us to HOPE. Sometimes we seem to confuse “wishful thinking” and “hope”. For me as a Christian, they are not interchangeable. Wishful…
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Church Inclusive: First Sunday of Advent, 27 November 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans Happy New Year!! It may seem odd to say/write these words, and yet for Christians the beginning of Advent is our New Year. It feels significant to…
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Church Inclusive: Twenty Forth Sunday After Pentecost, 20 November 2022
Dearly Beloved Franciscans Sometimes is uncomfortable and challenging to reconcile our perceptions of a Divine, Almighty King of kings with the vulnerability and seeming powerlessness of Jesus on the cross.…