Holy Trinity, Barnes, are running an eight week prayer course, starting on the 31st January and running every Tuesday from 7.30 – 9.15pm.
The Prayer Course is an eight week journey through the Lord’s Prayer using the 24/7 Prayer course material, it is a time to grow and deepen your prayer life as individuals and as a community.
Why come?
Enjoy a good meal, good company and spend time exploring prayer together.
Click here for more details and to sign up.
A number of different organisations are offering support now and over the coming months for those who find themselves in financial difficulty. Please speak to one of the clergy at your local church if you are struggling – it is much better to get help at an early stage than wait until things get more serious. Examples of help could include grants from the local council for unexpected costs such as white goods, access to local Foodbanks at the Castelnau Community Centre or information about warm spaces in the local area where you can go at no charge.
Richmond Council also has an excellent website with a range of support.
Rev James Marston was licensed at a 6pm service at St Michael’s & All Angels on Sunday 4th Dec.
Paula Brackenridge from this Deanery asked a question about the Southwark Anti-racist charter.
Quakers in Kingston and Richmond will be joined by speakers from the Anglican Church and the Humanist movement, to lead a public discussion titled “A Dialogue on Beliefs and Values”.
The panel discussion will aim to explore what makes life meaningful. It takes place at Kingston Quaker Centre on Thursday December 1st at 6.30pm.
Each participant on the panel will be asked to address the question: “Why I am a….” as a way to introduce their chosen faith, its values and beliefs. Panellists will also be answering questions from the audience.
The panel will comprise:
The event is open to the public, and has been organised as part of a series of events Quakers in South West London are holding to raise awareness of their activities.
Entry is free.
Further details can be found at https://kingstonquakers.org/talks/
Richmond Inter Faith Forum and St Mary’s University Chaplaincy invite you to share in a rare opportunity for a series of one-to-one chats, in a safe environment, with people from different religion or belief backgrounds, who you’ve probably never met before. It’s an event on Monday 21st November 16:30-18:00 at St.Mary’s University in Strawberry Hill in the Waldegrave Drawing Room. We’re calling it “Speed Dialogue”. Like speed dating, everyone will have the chance to talk with several people.
In common with previous RIFF dialogue events, the aim is to help us live well together in our diverse society by getting to know and understand people who are different, and to have an interesting time. It involves no commitments, it’s free to all attendees, and there’s a free cup of tea or coffee (or water).
Advance registration is essential. Please visit
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inter-faith-week-speed-dialogue-tickets-444129783137
In August 1950 a group of ten Sea Scouts from the 1st Mortlake Group set sail for a trip to France. They arrived safely in Calais, but on the journey back home their boat, a “whaler” named Wangle III, disappeared completely and they never made it back to the English coast.
On Sunday 23rd October, St. Mary The Virgin, Mortlake held a special memorial section to remember the Scouts of the Wangle III during the Eucharist service. The service was attended by family members as well as Commissioners and other senior Scouters representing the District, the County and national headquarters.
In her sermon, Rev Canon Dr Ann Nickson recounts the tragedy and talks of God’s love.
The ten boys and men that perished in 1950 were: Lt. Cmdr. John Weeden (1917); William Patrick (Bill) Towndrow (1932); Bernard Bell (1924); Donald Edward (Olly) Amos (1924); Robert Edward (Bob) Walford (1933); Peter Frederick White (1932); Brian Alan (Soley) Peters (1933); William Woods (1934); Maurice Alan Percival (1934); Kenneth Black (1926). They were remembered individually in the Act of Remembrance:
Click here to read more about the tragedy.
In this month’s issue of The Bridge, Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is remembered with pictures from Parishes across the Diocese where books of condolence were opened, bells were rung, requiem Eucharists and services of thanksgiving were held.
Rev Matthew Watts, curate at St Mary the Virgin Mortlake, played an important role in the Queen’s funeral. The Bridge writes:
“Viewers would have heard music arranged by The Revd Matthew Watts (Parish of Mortlake and East Sheen), a former Army musician in the Scots Guards Band and Staff Arranger for the Household Division. He was responsible for arranging the funeral music for royal funerals, including the State Funeral of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth. “I was so proud of everyone there doing that job that I did for so many years. Only two years ago it would have been me there. I am proud of what I had done,” he said.”
Click here to read the full article in The Bridge.
