Christmas Day – Rev Sue Murray
As Advent ends and Christmas begins, where have you found your comfort, where has been your hope? Comfort comes in the story of the...
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Strawberry – The Christmas Donkey – Part 2
And what a show it was. Long before the start time all the Christingles had been given out and we were having to share them out one per...
Strawberry – The Christmas Donkey – a true story told by Tom – Part 1
One of the guiding principles for actors is said to be ‘never work with children or animals‛. I guess it‛s because however good an actor...
Muffling the bells – Carole
A few days after Christmas, on 28th December, comes Holy Innocents` Day which marks the massacre of babies by King Herod in his attempt...
Advent by Thomas Merton – chosen by Martin
Charm with your stainlessness these winter nights, Skies, and be perfect ! Fly, vivider in the fiery dark, you quiet meteors, And...
Rabbit Pie and Pig's Trotters - Christmas in the 1930s – Kenneth
From the year of my birth in 1927 until the outbreak of the Second World War, my mother and I travelled most Christmases to a small...
Two cracking recipes – Perfect for Christmas – Serve 6
Many in Bisley and the wider area will remember Mo Smith and may even use recipes from her Lazy Cook series. With the permission of Will,...
BC:AD by UA Fanthorpe – Karen
Karen shares her favourite poem, BC:AD, by UA Fanthorpe This was the moment when Before Turned into After, and the future s Uninvented...
Celtic Blessings
The light of the Christmas star to you The warmth of a home and hearth to you The cheer and good will of friends to you The hope of a...
The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell – Malcolm
Malcolm has chosen today’s poem The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell, a fugitive 16th century English Jesuit. Malcolm adds:’ Advent is a...
The real Wenceslas – Tim
Even people who go to church only at Christmas will know the carol Good King Wenceslas. It has a cheerful, vigorous tune; it can easily...
From All Saints Bisley to All Saints Brixham – Peter & Anne (& Woody the Cat)
The last week of November is when Christmas in our coastal community commences, starting at 5.30pm when Brixham, where we now happily...
Christmas Eve on the Equator - Uganda 1956 – Judy
As was our tradition on Christmas Eve we were sitting beside our big Christmas tree, we three children wearing our new Christmas...
Swaddling Cloths – Susan
We have probably all sung ‘Hark the herald angels sing’ and it is impressive the angel packed so much into a short speech: reassurance...
No room at the inn – Helen
We all know of the Innkeeper, we see him in every nativity play, when Joseph knocks on his door and is told “There is no room at the...
Christmas 2001 in Northern Argentina – Peter
The singing and the guitars could be heard as we approached the low church building made of mud bricks and with corrugated iron for the...
Advent Meditation by Thomas Merton – December 1962
Here I come with a noise out of the woods, something to say for Christmas. The wise men are on the way… and the shepherds… and our own...
School Navitity – Rosie
One of the things I miss the most from my days as a parish priest at this time of year are the many school nativity plays and services,...
My favourite carol – Kim
There are so many lovely carols sung at Christmas that it is difficult to choose just one favourite. However, there is one that I find...
Autumn is about to end – Jenny
There's no prize in this race; the prize is elsewhere, Here only to be run for. There's no harvest Though all around the fields are white...
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