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"From the Vicar"
Regular reflections from the Great St Mary's clergy team. You can also read these reflections by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, the eMag:
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From The Revd Shirley Holder
On 2nd February the church marks the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, commonly called Candlemas, which is a pivot in...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Feb 5, 20242 min read
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From the Priest-in-Charge
(L to R: Juliet, Fiona, Margaret, Andrew) We are delighted to have a Churchwardens’ Team this year, with Margaret Johnston and Fiona...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jun 2, 20232 min read
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From the Priest-in-Charge
Eastertide greetings! Alleluia! Christ is risen! Every year I am struck by a different layer of meaning about Easter, though of course,...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
May 2, 20233 min read
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From the Priest-in-Charge
We are approaching Holy Week and Easter, and I am delighted that Great St Mary’s is a church that observes Holy Week with the special...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Apr 6, 20232 min read
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From the Priest-in-Charge
The Call by George Herbert Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way, as gives us breath: Such a Truth, as ends all strife: And such a...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Mar 3, 20233 min read
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From the Priest-in-Charge
What Church are we called to be? This was the central question at the PCC away day in January, part of the preparation process for the...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Feb 3, 20233 min read
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From the Priest in Charge
It’s been a joy to be part of Advent and Christmas at Great St. Mary’s this year. We have a very special ministry in the centre of...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jan 7, 20233 min read
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From the Interim Priest-in-Charge
This Sunday, December 4th at 4pm, we are holding the ‘Blue Christmas’ Service in Michaelhouse, a service with carols, reflections and...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Dec 9, 20222 min read
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From the Interim Priest-in-Charge
This Sunday, with the Feast of Christ the King, the Church year is coming to an end. In the life of GSM, this Sunday also brings the...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Nov 17, 20222 min read
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From the Associate Vicar
"Winter is icummen in..." wrote Ezra Pound, "Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm!" Alright, at the moment we have...
Rev Devin
Oct 7, 20221 min read
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From the Junior Curate
Thank you for your ministry About 50 eMagsago, I wrote my first piece for this illustrious publication. In it I reflected that clergy...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Aug 11, 20222 min read
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From the Junior Curate
Last week I was honoured to deliver an address at a service for pupils leaving Park Street School. I took inspiration from the Parable of...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jul 28, 20222 min read
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From the Associate Vicar
Anyone remember the great Cole Porter song 'Too Darn Hot'? I suspect that's going to be my earworm for the next week, as the temperatures...
Rev Devin
Jul 14, 20221 min read
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From the Associate Vicar
At 5pm this Saturday our curate, the Reverend Jon Sanders, will be ordained to the priesthood in a service at Ely Cathedral, to which all...
Rev Devin
Jul 1, 20222 min read
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From Revd Jon Sanders
'Lord, give us this bread for ever' Last Sunday the chalice was restored to our 10am Eucharist which means that we are now able to...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jun 16, 20222 min read
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From the Associate Vicar
At 11.30am tomorrow the Platinum Jubilee Service from St Paul’s Cathedral will be broadcast onto a 13-foot screen in the Great St Mary’s...
Rev Devin
Jun 3, 20222 min read
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Up, Up and Away!
If you ever have the chance to visit the Anglican shrine in Walsingham and enter the Chapel of the Ascension, you might at first be a bit...
Rev Devin
May 27, 20222 min read
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From the Associate Vicar
Dunstan's Day Today is Saint Dunstan’s day. Dunstan was a silversmith, musician, abbot, artist, liturgist, leader, and Archbishop of...
Rev Devin
May 20, 20222 min read
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From the Associate Vicar
The Common Cup Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood...
Rev Devin
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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From the Associate Vicar
What an incredible journey last week, as hundreds of us accompanied Jesus and the women and men who walked with him, into Jerusalem, from...
Rev Devin
Apr 21, 20222 min read
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