January 2025 – From the Vicarage

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From the January 2025 Parish Magazine Dear friends, Happy New Year or as the Japanese would say, akemashite (the New Year has dawned!) omedetou (Congratulations!) gozaimasu! I'm offering you the Japanese version of Happy New Year because of their acknowledgement that the New Year has begun. We often seem reluctant, I think, to pause in …

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Advent Weekend Celebrations

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From the January 2025 Parish Magazine From November 29th to 1st December St Mary’s had a busy weekend with the Christmas Tree Festival, Rushden Town Brass Band concert and finishing off with the Advent Carol service in church. Even though a little cold with no heating, the warmth of the start of the Christmas season …

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Creating Christmas

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Whether you visit us once over Advent and Christmas or attend every service, you have perhaps never considered the work which happens behind the scenes to make sure everything happens smoothly. Planning for the season started back in July when our Fundraising Committee met to decide upon the theme for the Christmas Tree Festival. In …

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Open the Book – December 2024

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Earlier this autumn a team formed within our congregation to take assemblies into Finedon Mulso Junior School as part of the Bible Societies "Open the Book" programme which is "an exciting storytelling project where Bible stories are shared with children in a way that is fun, interactive and memorable". The group is led by Pete …

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On the resignation of Justin Welby

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From the Diocese of Peterborough: Following the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Debbie has made the following statement. 'The Makin Report makes for harrowing reading and leaves me with a feeling of deep sadness and shame for the way in which victims of such horrific abuse have been let down by our Church. …

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A Bumper Harvest

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From the November 2024 Parish Magazine This year’s Harvest services produced a bumper crop, not only of produce but also for attendance in church. Including the Sunday morning communion service, the joint Harvest Supper and Songs of Praise with the Wesleyan Chapel and the schools’ Harvest service. There were over 769 people who were welcomed …

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