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...
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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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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Feb 3
- 3 min
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...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Jan 7
- 3 min
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...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Nov 17, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- Oct 7, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Jul 28, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- Jul 14, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- May 20, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- Apr 29, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- Apr 21, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Rev Devin
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
From the Associate Vicar
During the first lockdown, I went on a lot of journeys. All of them, however, were via Google Earth. I’d engage the ‘street view’...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
From Rev'd Shirley
Every moment is an opportunity for encountering God, if we look with the eyes of the heart, for there is a spiritual seeing through and...
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Great St Mary's Ministry Team
- Mar 31, 2022
- 2 min
From Rev'd Jon
In Hebrew folklore there is a story about a shepherd in the desert, who at the close of each day sets out a bowl of his ewe’s best milk...
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Rev Devin
- Mar 24, 2022
- 2 min
Two big projects
There’ve been two big projects on my plate this week that I’m quite excited about: The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations the first...
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