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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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Three Holy Days
We enter the Paschal Triduum this evening — those holy three days from the Last Supper to the Day of Resurrection. How Thursday through...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Apr 1, 20212 min read


Feast of the Notices
It's Lady Day today, the Feast of the Annunciation. When you're next inside Great St Mary's take a moment with the illustration of the...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Mar 25, 20212 min read


Sure and His Was a Wonderful Life
This week's reflection is from our curate Revd Shirley Holder Yesterday was St Patrick’s Day, so what can I tell you about ‘my’ patron...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Mar 18, 20212 min read


Love, Joy, Peace.
This week's reflection is from the Rev'd Shirley Holder, one of our curates Today, 11th March, would have been a dear friend’s 90th...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Mar 11, 20212 min read


Digging Out in Lent
This week's reflection is from Revd Devin, Associate Vicar At the back of our garden stands a pile of sewage-soaked clay and soil a meter...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Mar 4, 20212 min read
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
I'm writing this at what I hope is the tail end of a six hour argument between my twins, who have learned a new coding language and are...
Rev Devin
Feb 25, 20212 min read


Restore. Reflect. Refresh.
Today';s reflection is from our Associate Vicar, the Rev'd Devin McLachlan You might, like me, be someone fond of cold days — or like my...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Feb 18, 20212 min read


Grow and Flourish
This week's eMag reflection comes from our curate David Bagnall Lent begins this week, and I wonder if I’m alone in thinking that I...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Feb 11, 20212 min read


Keep Watch, dear Lord
This week's reflection is from Revd Devin McLachlan, our Associate Vicar The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have invited the nation...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Feb 4, 20212 min read


This little light of mine...
This week's reflection comes from Rev'd Devin McLachlan, our Associate Vicar Candlemas is just around the corner; we’ll be marking this...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jan 28, 20212 min read


Holocaust Memorial Day
Today's reflection is from our curate, Rev'd Andrew Day I grew up with four grandmothers, and for that matter with four grandfathers, two...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jan 23, 20212 min read


Abide in my love
This week's 'From the Vicar' comes from the Rev'd Devin McLachlan, Associate Vicar Tuesday's sonic boom was the last straw after a week...
Great St Mary's Ministry Team
Jan 14, 20212 min read


The Orchestra of Christ
There was no audience in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein. But this year's New Year's Day concert, broadcast live from Vienna, was one...

Devin McLachlan
Jan 7, 20212 min read


Home is where the heart is
I called an elderly member of this church the other day to see what he would be doing for Christmas. ‘Are you in a support bubble?’ I...

Devin McLachlan
Dec 31, 20202 min read
The Present is a Gift
This poem by Mary Oliver is called The Gift. It is a masterpiece. Here are seventy-one words which reward slow, considered reading: Be...

Devin McLachlan
Dec 23, 20202 min read


Bethlehem Down
I am going to take a risk this week. I am going to tell you how I am. Not how I am feeling – but how I actually am. I am depressed. Not...

Devin McLachlan
Dec 17, 20203 min read


The Leper Chapel's Touch
I suppose that many reading this have, like me, found themselves sitting in a queue of traffic on the Newmarket Road, and gazed wistfully...

Devin McLachlan
Dec 10, 20202 min read


Healing in his wings
I hope you’ve booked your seat, or bookmarked the livestream link, for one of our many carol services this year. Even though we are...

Devin McLachlan
Dec 3, 20202 min read
From Darkness into Light
From Darkness into Light 1st December 2020 Advent 1 O Sapientia - O Wisdom O Wisdom, Which camest forth out of the mouth of the Most...

From Darkness into Light
Dec 2, 20201 min read


The Meaning is in the waiting
Psalm 40 expresses the longing of the heart for the coming of the God. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and...

Devin McLachlan
Nov 26, 20202 min read
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