On Sunday 21st March volunteers from the community worked hard at the church to prepare the grounds in readiness for the Summer. The churchyard is managed in such a way to support biodiversity. The south facing area has been mown and will now be left for a few months for the wild flowers to […]
St Mary’s Church, Billingsley Events, April 2021 The medieval Easter Sepulchre in Billingsley Church Easter Sunday, 4th April 8.00 am Easter Communion around the Easter Sepulchre We will use Billingsley’s medieval Easter Sepulchre to dress the altar, as we celebrate the Resurrection. 6.00pm Sunday 11th April, Holy Water and Holy Wells […]
Dave Allen’s Black Cat Growing up in the 1970s, one of my favourite TV programmes was “Dave Allen at large”. I’m guessing the age profile of my readers is such that he needs no introduction…. Very recently, BBC 2 ran a compilation of his monologues and sketches which for me, had lost none of their […]
1) Wednesday Home Group, 7.00pm, During Lent, we will be considering “Hard Questions”, picking up some of the issues raised in the Sunday Service (available on the Highley St Mary’s website). If you haven’t listened to the service, don’t worry, just come along and listen or join in with the discussion, as you want. […]
Justice and injustice The news at the moment is full of stories about injustices, real or perceived. At the start of the week the focus was on the Royal family; a private dispute within a family that has become public. Then there was the grim news of the murder of Sarah Everard as she walked […]
1) Wednesday Home Group, 7.00pm, During Lent, we will be considering “Hard Questions”, picking up some of the issues raised in the Sunday Service (available on the Highley St Mary’s website). If you haven’t listened to the service, don’t worry, just come along and listen or join in with the discussion, as you want. […]
1) Wednesday Home Group, 7.00pm, During Lent, we will be considering “Hard Questions”, picking up some of the issues raised in the Sunday Service (available on the Highley St Mary’s website). If you haven’t listened to the service, don’t worry, just come along and listen or join in with the discussion, as you want. […]
More than giving up Chocolate I’m still going on about Lent… I do that, because it is a period that, in the churches calendar, lasts for 6 weeks and so we are in the middle of it. I’m also going on about it because I think it says something important to us, perhaps particularly in […]
Mrs W Lewis drew the numbers for the seventh draw of the 100 Club today. The first number out of the bag was 56 winning Mrs Y Garvey £60. Number 88 made its second appearance in two draws and number 43 was drawn again having been the winning number in January both winning £30 prizes […]
1) Wednesday Home Group, 7.00pm, During Lent, we will be considering “Hard Questions”, picking up some of the issues raised in the Sunday Service (available on the Highley St Mary’s website). If you haven’t listened to the service, don’t worry, just come along and listen or join in with the discussion, as you want. […]
