#497 The busy season has started
Image: The Plains of Heaven by John Martin (1789–1854) I was settling down to listen to the bells on Tuesday
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St Nicholas
#496 In a bazaar mood
It was cheese on my jacket potato at the Autumn Bazaar last week. In fact, the jacket potato was surplus
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#495 At the going down of the sun and in the morning
No one has ever thought that I am particularly ferocious. As a church mouse, I know my job is to
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#494 I mean to be one too
I had my paws away from the keyboard last week, but I’m glad to be back today, warm and cosy
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#493 A troubling week
Image: the hanging pyx above the altar at Portsmouth Cathedral Fr Sam writes Last week, the Church of England’s House
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#492 At the Cathedral of the Sea
It was a large crowd from Wokingham that drove down to Portsmouth on Saturday, ready for the St Paul’s Choir
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#491 Thank you for the Harvest
All good gifts around us are sent from heav’n above;Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all His
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#490 For me the only feast at all is Autumn’s Harvest Festival
Christmas and Easter may be feastsFor congregations and for priests,And so may Whitsun. All the same,They do not fill my
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#489 Ye watches and ye holy ones
This week, as I scurried around the church on Wednesday evening, I heard the choir practising a hymn about angels.
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#488 Sweet especial rural scene
I had a day out this week from my regular routine of nosing through hymnbooks and surplices, and snuck my
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