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Friends of St Columba’s
Friends of St Columba’s
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Winchester Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral; Chelsea Physic Garden, A Walking Tour of the City of London led by a Blue Badge Guide, Fenton House, Hampstead; plus a 3-day tour of SW Scotland, Dumfries and the Robert Burns Heritage site, the original home of the TSB, Ruthwell Church with its 8th century cross, and the early Christian settlement at Whithorn. In 2023-24 Hugh Pym led a visit to the BBC, we saw Charles Dickens Museum and the Museum of London in Docklands, and enjoyed a splendid day in St Albans visiting the cathedral, the town and lunching in a first-class Italian restaurant.
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Events for 2024/2025
Click below to view our programme for 2024/2025 Events:
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Sunday 14th February 2021
11.00am Morning Service
Revd Alistair Cumming -
Newsletter – 14th February 2021
Outside, the sky was almost brown The clouds were hanging low.
Then all of a sudden it happened:
The air was full of snow.The children rushed to the windows. The teacher let them go,
Though she teased them for their foolishness.
After all, it was only snow. -
Lent and Easter 2021
Lent and Easter 2021
Days of Lent are set aside as pilgrimage and preparation for the eventual embrace and celebration of Easter. They echo Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness. For people of faith Lent is the opportunity to enter more deeply into the mystery of Christ’s life, death and resurrection; a time to reassess what is important. Jesus’ hard road to the Cross is offered as reminder, strength, and encouragement, for the hard roads which we, or our loved ones, may also be required to travel. New or old at St Columba’s, however hard you find your current road, please find a way to join the journey. And may this Lent become a time of precious discovery and blessing.
Ways to travel:
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Holy Week Services
Thursday 1st April, 8p.m. Maundy Thursday Holy Communion
Friday 2nd April, 11a.m. Service of Readings & Music for Good Friday
Sunday 4th April, 11a.m. Easter Morning Holy CommunionPrayer for the Journey to Easter
God of all seasons,
in your pattern of things
there is a time for keeping,
and a time for losing,
a time for building up,
and a time for pulling down.
In this holy season of Lent,
as we journey with our Lord to the cross,
help us to discern in our lives,
what we must lay down
and what we must take up;
what we must end,
and what we must begin.
Give us grace to lead a disciplined life,
in glad obedience
and with the joy
which comes from a closer walk with Christ. Amen.
(from Common Worship)
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Sunday 7th February 2021
11.00am Morning Service
Revd Angus MacLeod MA BD -
Newsletter – 7th February 2021, Fifth after Epiphany
Friends,This week we took down the Nativity set, crafted some years ago, by staff and students of Hill House School. Normally, we do that immediately following Epiphany, on January 6th (Twelve Days of Christmas etc.) This year it felt appropriate to keep it throughout the season of Epiphany, letting its warmth and colour act as a focus, during our live stream services.
The official season of Epiphany concluded on Tuesday, February 2nd; in some traditions known as the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, or more usually, Candlemas. It celebrates the story, recorded in Luke 2:22-40, of the elderly Simeon in the Jerusalem Temple, taking the baby Jesus in his arms and recognising the infant as: “A Light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.”
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31st January 2021
11.00am Morning Service
Revd Angus MacLeod MA BD -
Newsletter – 31st January 2021
“Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”
Proverbs 16:24In the first of this season’s Coffee Morning Zoom talks, St Columba’s elder, Kate McNish enlightened attenders about the amazing world of bees. From a Church of Scotland blog this week came further input about creating a Bee Water Station. Bees need water, especially on hot days to supplement the pollen and the nectar. They use it for their digestion. In addition, it is used in the hive to dilute the honey to the right constituency and to cool down the hive when it becomes hot. This is achieved by an appropriate flapping of wings. Bees are susceptible to drowning in bird baths and garden ponds. So, they need shallow water and an easy way to access it. Placing stones, as suitable landing spots, in a terracotta dish fits the bill. The bees work extremely hard, flying at 16 miles per hour and flapping their wings 230 times per second. A summer worker bee only lives for 6 weeks and only goes out foraging for the last 3 weeks of her life. In that time, going out every day to forage all the daylight hours, she will bring home enough nectar to make just one twelfth of a teaspoonful of honey.
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E-Newsletter – 24th January 2021
For God alone my soul waits in silence;
from him comes my salvation.
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress;
I shall never be shaken. (Psalm 62:1-2)This week our headlines have been full of Presidential Inauguration, and you may have seen Amanda Gorman become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration. The 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience. Her five-minute poem began: “When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?” She went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month. “We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,” she declared. “And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.” Overall, her poem called for “unity and togetherness.“
