You are cordially invited to a
Valentine Coffee Morning
on
Saturday February 14th
10.00am to 12noon
in St Hilda's hall
Tickets £1 (coffee and biscuit)
There will also be a raffle and a home produce stall
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Saturday, 7 February 2015
Christian Aid Lunches
As St Hilda's has done for several years, we will be hosting
Christian Aid Lunches
from 12.00 noon each Tuesday
during Lent.
You are warmly invited to join us for some home made soup and a roll on
- February 24th
- March 3rd
- March 10th
- March 17th, and
- March 24th.
Monday, 2 February 2015
Encountering Jesus in Lent
Encountering Jesus
There will be four Quiet Saturdays in Lent on the theme of encountering Jesus.
These will provide an opportunity for members and anyone who cares to join us to deepen faith, personally and together and, if desired, to explore new patterns of prayer and devotion.
There will be a progression through the four Saturdays. However you are welcome to come as many as you can or wish to.
The themes will be:
- 28 February: Calling disciples: Support, community
- 7 March Meeting outsiders: Openness, change
- 14 March Addressing enemies: Trust, risk, assurance
- 28 March Approaching the cross: Power, violence, subversion
The days will begin at 9.30am and conclude at 12.30pm, with the opportunity to bring lunch and to eat together afterwards.
These will be linked with Study Groups held in the vicarage on Wednesdays. If you'd like to join us you would be very welcome - no need to book, though if you'd like more details feel free to email St Hilda: st.hildamarden@gmail.com
Sunday, 25 January 2015
Libby Lane, the first woman to be appointed a bishop in the Church of England, says amongst other things that she hopes her appointment will send a signal to young girls regardless of their faith
This film was recorded on the day it was announced that the Revd Libby Lane was to become the next Bishop of Stockport. In it she talks about her journey to faith
“Knowing Jesus made sense to me as a teenager,” said Lane this weekend, “and if my appointment encourages a single young girl to lift her eyes up a bit and to realise that she has capacity and potential, and that those around her don’t need to dictate what is possible, then I would be really honoured.”Full article in The Guardian.
This film was recorded on the day it was announced that the Revd Libby Lane was to become the next Bishop of Stockport. In it she talks about her journey to faith
Friday, 16 January 2015
What we want in a new bishop
I attended the open meeting for the people considering the appointment of a new bishop for Newcastle Diocese.
We met with Caroline Boddington (Appointments Secretary of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York) and Edward Chaplin (Prime Minister’s Appointments Secretary) Oxford Mail photo They made copious notes and explained a little of the process. They gave nothing away.
Over 80 people were present and everyone who wanted to was able to have their say.
Most people who spoke were Anglicans but there were also contributions from City Church and from Colin Carr OP, from the Roman Catholic St Dominic's Priory Church.
A representative from Jesmond Parish Church spoke first. She mentioned the size of the church (1,000 regular attenders and over 5,000 at peak) and then said that they were looking for someone who would emphasise evangelism and support the teaching that marriage was between one man and one woman. Someone else from the same church made the same point later, citing scripture.
However I think they were the only people who tried to say: 'the next bishop must fit to what we think'. And as this was a meeting for people who didn't have a direct line into the appointment process I suspect their view will not have much sway.
From the other end of the Anglican spectrum the representative of the Bishop of Beverley asked only that the new bishop (male or female, he didn't mind) would respect the guidelines put in place for parishes which would not accept a woman bishop.
Most people asked for their particular area of concern to be taken into account: sustaining small churches, the particular needs of rural churches and of those in poorer areas, mission and evangelism, ecumenism, the mothers' union, education, interfaith work, lay people and Readers, links with Norway and Winchester, links with the voluntary sector, Christian Aid and poverty.
Others were looking for particular qualities: an enabler, someone who would invest in leaders - especially young leaders, a pastor to the clergy, someone who'd cherish diversity.
A few wanted a spokesperson for the North East, well-connected in London, not least in negotiations over money.
Overall, I thought, the meeting did a good job of allowing anyone who wanted to to have their say. I also thought that very little was suggested that couldn't have been said for almost any diocese,
What did strike me was the occasional tone of being sorry for ourselves: that the diocese was poor, marginal, a long way from London, apparently unattractive to clergy from south of the Tyne. And yet (in a contradictory way) several people introduced themselves as incomers. Some told the meeting how many years they'd been here, perhaps to establish a right to speak while recognising that this right was limited.
Paul Bagshaw
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| Edward Chaplin |
Over 80 people were present and everyone who wanted to was able to have their say.
Most people who spoke were Anglicans but there were also contributions from City Church and from Colin Carr OP, from the Roman Catholic St Dominic's Priory Church.
A representative from Jesmond Parish Church spoke first. She mentioned the size of the church (1,000 regular attenders and over 5,000 at peak) and then said that they were looking for someone who would emphasise evangelism and support the teaching that marriage was between one man and one woman. Someone else from the same church made the same point later, citing scripture.
However I think they were the only people who tried to say: 'the next bishop must fit to what we think'. And as this was a meeting for people who didn't have a direct line into the appointment process I suspect their view will not have much sway.
From the other end of the Anglican spectrum the representative of the Bishop of Beverley asked only that the new bishop (male or female, he didn't mind) would respect the guidelines put in place for parishes which would not accept a woman bishop.
Most people asked for their particular area of concern to be taken into account: sustaining small churches, the particular needs of rural churches and of those in poorer areas, mission and evangelism, ecumenism, the mothers' union, education, interfaith work, lay people and Readers, links with Norway and Winchester, links with the voluntary sector, Christian Aid and poverty.
Others were looking for particular qualities: an enabler, someone who would invest in leaders - especially young leaders, a pastor to the clergy, someone who'd cherish diversity.
A few wanted a spokesperson for the North East, well-connected in London, not least in negotiations over money.
Overall, I thought, the meeting did a good job of allowing anyone who wanted to to have their say. I also thought that very little was suggested that couldn't have been said for almost any diocese,
What did strike me was the occasional tone of being sorry for ourselves: that the diocese was poor, marginal, a long way from London, apparently unattractive to clergy from south of the Tyne. And yet (in a contradictory way) several people introduced themselves as incomers. Some told the meeting how many years they'd been here, perhaps to establish a right to speak while recognising that this right was limited.
Paul Bagshaw
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