General Synod will again take place online this year, as it did in 2020. However, the schedule will cover two days on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 June, instead of the single day event that was held last December. Business will start at 9am each day and is expected to run until approximately mid to…
Archives for April 2021
Sunday worship for 25 April 2021, Easter 4
Today we are joined in church by Bishop Kevin Pearson, who will celebrate the Eucharist and preach. We open our worship with hymn 117, The Day of Resurrection …
Bishop will visit All Saints this Sunday
We welcome Bishop Kevin Pearson to All Saints at 10.30 am this coming Sunday, April 25, when he will preach and be celebrant at the Eucharist.
Sunday worship for 18 April 2021, Easter 3
This week’s online Liturgy of the Word and our morning service in church have as their backdrop the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh – and the peace of the risen Christ. We open our worship with hymn 119, The strife is o’er, the battle won …
Easter 3: Peace be with you
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 April 2021.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Following the death of Prince Philip, our worship in church on Sunday April 11 will begin with the National Anthem and we shall be praying for the Queen and Royal Family at this time of bereavement and personal distress. Read more for statements and prayer from +Kevin Pearson, +Mark Strange and ++Justin Welby.
Sunday worship for 11 April 2021, Easter 2
We continue through Eastertide with a Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. This week we enjoy music from Chichester, Warwick, Durham, Landsberg am Lech in Germany and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, where we open our worship with hymn 117, The Day of Resurrection …
Easter 2: The life and resurrection of Jesus in our own lives
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 April 2021.
Sunday worship for 4 April 2021, Easter Day
Christ is risen! A happy Easter to everyone! The music accompanying today’s Liturgy of the Word presents two exceptional performances – of This Joyful Eastertide by a young man beautifully singing all four parts, and of Charles-Marie Widor playing his own Toccata at St Sulpice in Paris, in 1932. We open with hymn 120, Thine be the glory …
Easter Day: A close encounter of the most personal kind
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 April 2021.
Maundy Thursday: An eternity of loving the Lord – and one another
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Thursday April 1 2021.
Commentary: Much is being torn down, little is being built in its place
We have just resumed our worship in church after a lockdown of some three months, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. For some of us it has been tedious as we are denied the company of friends and the pursuit of out of home activities. But in coming together again there is that sense of regathering, renewal,…
