Tag: Worship
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Message of the Day for this Easter Period
✝️ STATION 11 Jesus is nailed to the cross“Love held Him there.” 📖 “They crucified him there.”— Luke 23:33 ✨ Reflection: What does sacrificial love look like for me?
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Message of the Day for this Easter Period
✝️ STATION 10 Jesus is stripped of His garments“Nothing left but truth.” 📖 “They divided my clothes among them…”— Psalm 22:18 ✨ Reflection: Who am I without what I hide behind?
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Message of the Day for this Easter Period
✝️ STATION 9 Jesus falls the third time“At the edge of strength.” 📖 “My strength is dried up…”— Psalm 22:15 ✨ Reflection: What sustains me when I feel empty?
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The Passion – A Journey to the Cross and Holy Communion
📍 St Mary’s Church, Bideford📅 Sunday 22nd March As we continue our journey through Lent, we invite you to join us at St Mary’s for a special reflection on The Passion of Christ. Through scripture, prayer, and reflection, we will walk together through the powerful events that lead to the cross — remembering Christ’s love,…
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🌿 Reflections – A Gentle Space for Those Who Are Grieving 🌿
Losing someone we love can leave a space in our lives that feels very quiet and sometimes overwhelming. Grief is different for everyone. For some it brings sadness, for others questions, memories, or simply the feeling of missing someone deeply. At times it can help to talk, and at other times it can help simply…
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☕🍰 St Mary’s Café 🍰☕
(formerly Holy Grounds) Come and enjoy a relaxed morning of tea, coffee, cake, and conversation at St Mary’s Café, kindly hosted by the Mothers’ Union.There will be cards for sale and a Tombola 📅 Saturday 14th March ⏰ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm 📍 St Mary’s Church, Church Walk. Whether you’d like a quiet cup…
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Message of the Week
Be a Neighbour to All In the Gospel story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus reminds us that being a neighbour is not about distance or familiarity. It is about compassion. It is about noticing someone in need and choosing kindness. To be a neighbour means offering a smile, a listening ear, or a helping hand.…
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🌟 Message of the Week
Stepping Into the Light Nicodemus came to Jesus at night. Perhaps he came in darkness because he was unsure.Perhaps because he had questions.Perhaps because faith can feel safer when no one else is watching. And Jesus didn’t turn him away. Instead, He spoke of new birth.Of wind that moves unseen.Of life that begins not with…
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Betty Thompson’s Story
PART ONE I Came Here in 1946 “OK… you know who I am, don’t you?” Betty says it with a playful glint, her eyes bright with mischief. A smile curls at the corner of her mouth, and then comes the soft ripple of laughter — the kind that belongs to someone entirely comfortable in her…
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✨ Message of the Week
Listening, Trusting, Choosing This week’s readings — Genesis 2:15–17; 3:1–7 and Matthew 4:1–11 — draw us into two deeply human moments: encounters with temptation. In Genesis, Adam and Eve stand in a garden of abundance. Nothing is lacking. Yet a voice of doubt quietly asks, “Did God really say…?”A seed of uncertainty is planted. Trust…
