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Dear Brothers and Sisters The guidance from the Church on the wearing of masks during has now been published. I have set it in bold for clarity. We strongly advise that face coverings should be worn by all those attending a place of worship, including ministers, worshippers, staff, volunteers, contractors and visitors, where there may be other people present; remembering that they are mainly intended to protect other people, not the wearer, from coronavirus COVID-19 and that they are not a replacement for physical distancing and regular hand washing. Clearly wearing a mask adds another level of complexity to our lives. Receiving Holy Communion meansRead More →

Dear Brothers and Sisters As we continue to start coming back together physically more changes are on the cards. Following the Government directions on wearing of Facemasks the Church is in the process of deciding what we will have to do about this as far as worship is concerned. We should have more information about this by next week. Meanwhile please wear a mask today if you would like to. Please do not worry; if masks do become compulsory in church from next week, and I think they probably will, we won’t be fining you (sorry Treasurers, yet another funding stream cut off!).  Meanwhile itRead More →

Dear Brothers and Sisters I was at a clergy meeting this week (by zoom) and it turned out that I was the only priest at the meeting who had held services last week. Many churches have decided to wait until August or even September before dipping their toes back in the water. I think last week’s services went well (ish). At least I haven’t had too many complaints! It is all going to feel very strange and different and it will do for some time to come. We will keep tweaking things to get them better and some things that work in one of ourRead More →

Dear Brothers and Sisters This week’s bulletin is a bit different. Some of us will be reading this on Friday or Saturday or Sunday at home, others in church on Sunday, hopefully not while I am preaching! There will also be copies available in church on Sunday if you would like to follow the readings. You might be waiting till we have a service in your church or you might not feel ready to come back to church. If that is the case keep us all in your prayers, and know that we will be praying for you at each of the services on Sunday.Read More →

Dear Brothers and Sisters Re-opening News From next Sunday (5th July) we will be able to hold regular public worship in our church buildings! It has been such a long time since we were able to worship together physically and I know that you will all be overjoyed at this news. However it may not be wise for some of us to come together just yet so along with physical worship we will continue with a weekly bulletin for the foreseeable future. Guidance from the national church and the diocese is still being finalised but at present this is (probably) what our services will lookRead More →