A sustainable lifestyle? At Billingsley and indeed throughout our benefice, we are privileged to live and worship in a rural setting, where we live in close proximity to the natural world. Many find comfort and sustenance from being alongside nature; some may even call this spirituality! From a Christian perspective, we recognise the world as […]
Archive | March, 2021
Home Group and other Zoom Events - week beginning 29th March
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. […]
Thought for the week, 28th March; Holding Truths
I write this at the end of the week that has seen the first anniversary of lock-down. We have had the first real spring sunshine; in spare moments I have been planting in the garden, anticipating the summer that lies ahead. But this has been against a background of the grim memories of the previous […]
Notice of St Mary’s, Billingsley Annual Parish Meeting - Changes!!!
THIS MEETING WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT THE CHURCH ON FRIDAY 21ST MAY AT 4PM. WE ASK ALL THOSE WHO WISH TO ATTEND TO OBSERVE SOCAIL DISTANCING AND THE LATEST GOVERNMENT ADVICE Billingsley St Mary’s Church: Notice of Annual Parish Meeting The Annual Parish Church Meeting will take place on Wednesday 19th May at 7.30pm […]
Spring Clean and Preparing for Summer
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 […]
April Events 2021
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 […]
Thought for the week 22nd March - Dave Allen’s Black Cat
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 […]
Home group and other Zoom events week beginning 22nd March
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. […]
Thought for the Week 15th March - Justice and Injustice
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 […]
Home Group and other Zoom events week beginning 15th March
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. […]