LETTER FROM THE VICAR APRIL 2023

Dear Friends We are coming to the end of Lent and beginning of Passiontide and Holy Week, a time of celebration for the Christian church. Through participation in the whole sequence of Church services, we share in Christ’s own unique journey from the triumphal...

LETTER FROM THE VICAR MARCH 2023

Dear Friends Welcome to the month of March in the Claydons, Calvert, Calvert Green, Sandhill and Verney Junction, when the season of Spring officially begins and Daylight Savings take place towards the end of month. Some commentators also say that this is the month of...

LETTER FROM THE VICAR FEBRUARY 2023

Dear Friends Welcome to the month of February, four weeks after entering the new year of 2023. In continuation with last month’s letter about new opportunities, I was intrigued with a recent Guardian Newspaper article by Emma Beddington entitled: “52 acts...

LETTER FROM THE VICAR JANUARY 2023

Dear Friends Happy New Year and a Parish welcome to 2023. Brad Zomick, co-founder of Skilled up, listed his top 10 New Year resolutions for sparking positive change. He quoted the following: exercise more, lose weight, get organised, learn a new skill or hobby, live...

LETTER FROM THE VICAR DECEMBER 2022

Dear Friends, Charles Dickens cited in “A Christmas Carol”, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year long.” A narrative that contrasts with the commercial aspects of the month’s countdown in days towards the...

LETTER FROM THE VICAR NOVEMBER 2022

Dear Friends November has always been a time of festivals and celebrations marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of Winter. In this Parish, it is also a time where through baptism we become members of one another in Christ and also of a company of saints...