This year’s Lent gatherings, hosted at the chapel in collaboration with
St Bartholomew’s, focussed on four topics chosen by individual
speakers under the umbrella of “Encountering God in our everyday
lives”…..
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Easter brings with it a message of hope and a message of new life as we consider what Jesus did for us through His death and resurrection.
Spring is full of new life, we witness…
I am sitting writing this watching pairs of birds flitting in and out of the hedge, some daffodils have emerged, buds are forming on the trees. So Spring is nearly here.
Considering the astronomical ….
Every season brings both challenge and beauty and the trick is to deal effectively with both. If we concentrate too much on how difficult life is when you have to rely on neighbours to get your shopping, then we fail to see how pleased our neighbours are to be…
Advent, which means arrival, or start, of an event, is the beginning of the liturgical year in the church – a time of waiting, reflection and expectation. It is a time when we remember the coming of Jesus, the light of the world, born in Bethlehem and placed in a lowly manger far from home, the one who is Saviour of the World
On Sunday November 10th, we gather at ceremonies in all our churches to remember those who fought and died in the 1st World War, 2nd World war, and in other conflicts….
So, we are now in the Harvest Season – we all know the “mists and mellow fruitfulness” quote, from the famous poem by Keats, and
there is something rather beautiful about the inevitable chilly mornings and cobwebs hung with diamonds. Harvest time when I…
It’s been a summer of contrasts. On a superficial level, there was the weather we hoped for – and the weather we had.
On a much more serious level, there was a horrific act of murderous brutality, followed by a series of ….
Living in Wick has opened up a whole new world to us: the world of garden
birds. When we first came here my sister and brother-in-law bought us a bird feeder as a moving in gift. It’s placed in view of the patio doors next to a lovely garden bush and it has brought us hours of entertainment. Who needs a TV when you have a bird feeder? People who come to visit are…
In the last couple of years at the chapel, we have needed to arrange for
building contractors, heating engineers, electricians, an architect and others
to come and quote for work. I am in the habit of telling such people that the
chapel is a small, grey, rather ugly-looking building on the high street,
opposite the Victoria Sandwich shop.
One building contractor said t
