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THE REVIEWER
MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS, master of precise analysis, may be quietly pleased with Martyn Halsall’s review of his Drysalter in last week’s Church Times (23rd August). Here are a couple of the reviewer’s...
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DEGANWY SUNSET
MANY GREAT glories around and within us, Blessing in sunrise and sunset top and tail. Photo-graphing “writes in light” – as Rembrandt might in oil - Revealing our fuller, truer nature. And tonight in...
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SAME THING MANY DIFFERENT WAYS
The Homily (introducing the 10am Kaleidoscope Mass) at 8am HUGO GOT IT immediately – the point and purpose of our 10am Kaleidoscope Mass, the first of twelve, one a month, on the first Sunday of the...
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SISTER SITE
BRAMHALL ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS new website at bramhallcofe.com has quietly taken to the stage tonight and will develop gently over the coming weeks – for the time being working in tandem with...
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FR MARC FOR ST JAMES
NEWLY RETURNED from their happy days at All Saints’ Douglas, Isle of Man, it was great to be with Fr Marc and Julie Wolverson, and Daniel and Leah, an hour North from here, for Marc’s Institution as...
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LOOK AT THE WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHY is sometimes happy accident. Here, looking up and toward the horizon, a tranquil sunset moment, towards the close of a good and fruitful day, and a prayer of the heart arising, in deep,...
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LIGHT A CANDLE
FOR OUR DEARLY LOVED ONES - or people further afield – Afghanistan, perhaps, or Myanmar or Syria. The bereft and the blessed. The faraway and those having fun. The going and the coming. The hopeless...
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AUTUMN & ACTIVE
Bramhall Parish Church on Facebook (click photos) AUTUMN TERM – as it were – has arrived for St Michael & All Angels Bramhall at full tilt. There’s loads going on in every area of the parish’s...
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AN ABSOLUTE JOY
photo/simonmarsh GLORIOUS WEDDING – the “house team” at St Michael’s are all still glowing with the warmth of it all, even on a cold day. Today’s was a simply wonderful bringing together of Buddhist,...
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SURPRISE, SURPRISE
Peaceful Embrace (or the melting of boundaries) used here by kind permission of the sculptor Briony Marshall SURPRISE, SURPRISE – we’re IN the Kingdom!
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MISSIONS & PERSPECTIVE
MISSION SUNDAY planning team … Building projects always encounter hidden issues! – a slight delay with ours means that a number of events planned for the new parish centre over the weekend (including...
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TABLE SET BEFORE ME
WHEN JANET KETTERINGHAM told her brother Geoff that there was to be a family gathering in our parish centre, to celebrate his special birthday, she had it in mind that the guests would be amongst the...
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SHARING RESOURCES
slides here | facebook here MANY THANKS to our Missions Co-ordinator Ann Combes, speakers Isabel Garlick (Water Aid) and Michael Bradley (The Mill), and the many others who helped with the...
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FOR ALL THAT HAS BEEN, THANKS …
FOR ALL THAT WILL BE, YES – a prayer of Dag Hammarskjöld Fr Simon gives thanks for the gift and grace of Holy Orders – ordained a Deacon by Bishop Michael Baughen 31 years ago today, and a Priest 12...
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HOLINESS
DON’T BE AFRAID OF HOLINESS said Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City this morning - Let us not be afraid to respond to Christ’s call, to trust in the working of the Holy Spirit and to pray...
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RENEWED & REDEDICATED
THE PARISH CENTRE – ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS BRAMHALL Renewed & Rededicated by this Household of Faith 6 October 2013 HERE’S ONE OF SEVERAL REASONS I’ve been a bit preoccupied lately - thanks...
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A DAY OF THANKSGIVING
FRANK BENNETT’S marvellous photoset of our Day of Thanksgiving last Sunday is here
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CHANGING A WORLD
_ HERE’S HOW TO DO IT. What’s the difference between self-interested or self-oriented tastes and higher vision - ? This was the question that framed one of our church leadership meetings this week. I...
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WILL YOU COME?
FOR ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS BRAMHALL One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began … Mary Oliver IN NOVEMBER we’ll be remembering all the saints and souls who have lived and died before...
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