The beginning of a New Year!

Grant, O Lord, that in all our rush and bustle in the Year 2009, we may not be too busy to hear your voice.

The services for January and February, the season of Epiphany and run up to Lent, are available from the Services page or as a flyer here.

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - A Christmas message from the Archbishop of Canterbury

Put aside your principles and remember: all you need is love.
In an article published in a UK National Newspaper 22 December, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, reflects on a Christmas sermon given by Karl Barth in 1931, to put aside principles as a good way to consider the meaning of Christmas story today. Article appears on the Archbishop's web site. and is available as a PDF here. Food for thought, at this time of feasting!

To read the Archbishop's Christmas Day Sermon click here

Wishing all web site readers a very Happy Christmas.

Bishop Geoffrey's Christmas Message 2008

In his Christmas Message Bishop Geoffrey considers Mary's "deep and reflective meditation" on God's action, referred to by St Luke as sumballo from which the word symbol derives.
For the full text and podcast click here.

Christmas Greetings from Jerusalem

St Thomas Becket Church supports the work of the USPG-Anglicans in World Mission including their work in Jerusalem. For the latest News of the remarkable work going on and a Christmas greeting please click here.

To see some other Mission projects supported, please look under "Mission Projects".