Dear Friends, Welcome to S. Michael’s; it is a joy to join with you to offer our worship to God in this place. This coming week marks Alice Bates’ final days as our Parish Administrator. I would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication that Alice has brought to the role and offer her … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, Welcome to S. Michael’s on this Trinity Sunday, as we celebrate together the revelation of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. In the 14th century work, The Cloud of Unknowing, the author reflects: ‘Now you say, “How shall I proceed to think of God as he … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, Christ is risen, alleluia! He is risen indeed, alleluia! Welcome to S. Michael’s this week, I wish you all a joyful Pentecost as we celebrate the outpouring of God’s Spirit upon the first disciples and the Church. This feastmarks the culmination of our long Easter season, and we welcome Dean Lawrence Kimberley as … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, Christ is risen, alleluia! He is risen indeed, alleluia! For forty days the Church has celebrated with all joy Christ’s mighty resurrection.We have proclaimed once again the acts of the risen Lord who has overcome death. Jesus’ resurrection is the beginning of the astonishing renewal that God promises for our world, the beginning … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! It is my joy to welcome you to S. Michael’s this week. On Tuesday I took up the role of interim Priest-in-charge for the next two months, as we await the arrival of Fr Chris. It is a great pleasure to return to the … [Read more…]
Sunday 29 April: we bid farewell to Revd Anne and Charlie in the hall after Mass.They have kindly invited all parishioners to join them in a farewell lunch at noon. Concert: NZ String Quartet in the church today at 3:00 pm. See poster. S. Michael’s School: Term Two begins tomorrow. Bible Study Group meets tomorrow, … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, We felt that it was important, as a matter of public record and for the sake of those who were not at Mass last Sunday, that we repeated here the announcement of our next Vicar—Fr Christopher Orczy. In his application Fr Chris, as he prefers to be called, wrote (this quote is with … [Read more…]
Dear Friends It seems such a long time since I last wrote. So much has happened. Today we farewell Bishop Victoria at a service in the Transitional Cathedral. She has served this Diocese for just on ten tumultuous years. I feel very privileged that I was the first Deacon that she ordained a Priest. No … [Read more…]
An extract from the Vicar’s letter for Low Sunday 2016 Dear Friends, Welcome to S. Michael’s as we continue the joyful celebration of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Easter, at fifty days, is the longest season in the Church’s calendar, which emphasises the importance of the resurrection as the central tenet of the … [Read more…]
Dear All The week ahead is full of textures and colours that inform our very being. Think of the many ways we use our bodies and the gifts of creation in the liturgies of Holy Week: We wave palm branches. We kneel at the proclamation of the Death of the Lord. We use water to … [Read more…]
