‘What do you do?’ For much of our life we are, so it appears, defined by our occupation. Even in retirement or death, official forms often seek to know ‘What did you do?’ What we do is not just a...
From The Rectory – What Do You Do?
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From The Rectory – Candles
This weekend we celebrate Candlemas. Traditionally this is the moment that candles were brought into church for blessing before use. With that in mind, I have been thinking about candles. ...
From the Rectory – Mothering Sunday
This week I enjoyed a fascinating TV programme about a Puma family (BBC Dynasties – Puma). I have never seen a Puma, but having once enjoyed a holiday in Chilean Patagonia, where much of the filming...
Mothering Sunday at St Mary’s
You are warmly invited to our Mothering Sunday Service at 10.00am on Sunday 27th March. A chance to say 'thank you' to those who care for us or have cared for us in the past. Children will be able...
From The Rectory
From the Rectory, Sunday 13th March 2022, Lent 2 No words of wisdom this week as the Rectory has been left in the ‘watchful hands’ of its new resident. Hopefully he/she won’t have eaten everything...
St Mary’s Coffee Morning – Saturday 12th March
To celebrate Fair Trade Fortnight Coddenham Church Coffee Morning will be open for freshly brewed coffee and home made cakes, with FAIRTRADE and TRAIDCRAFT STALLS. St Mary's Church, Coddenham....
From the Rectory – Spiritual Warfare
In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, symbolically ending nearly 45 years of the Cold War dividing Europe. I had moved to West Germany with the RAF two years earlier, in 1987. Had anyone told me then that...
From the Rectory – New Beginnings
The storm finally abated, the wind dropped and the late evening sun shone; peace. At the same time another storm appears to be abating and soon, in England at least, all remaining Covid...
From the Rectory – Colours of Day
Sitting at breakfast one recent morning, I watched the rising sun grace the morning with a brilliant, fiery red glow. By 8 in the morning, however, the light had dimmed and it was as if dusk...
From the Rectory – Poverty and Riches
‘Blessed are the poor, …. woe to the rich’. (Lk 6: 20-26). Poverty and riches are very much in the news at the moment and are clearly as much an issue for us today, as they were for Luke’s first...