http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:18:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Am I not a Man and a Brother by Fr Richard Coles, Senior Curate I was in Bristol last week to ‘deliver a lecture’ (a grand way of saying ‘busk for forty minutes’) on the subject of the Wesleys in that city. Bristol is second only to London in importance to the ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2010/03/06/weekly-sheet-8th-march-2010-lent-iii/ Forward this email to a friend A Three Day Retreat (with a difference!) Moissac, France 22nd-24th June 2010 In busy lives, taking time for a retreat is often bottom of our list of priorities. In reality, it ought to be a little higher up! Perhaps you couldn't take a whole week... but could you manage three ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2010/03/01/a-three-day-retreat-moissac-france-22-24-june-2010/ TRANSFORMING LIVES: ALMA's CHILDREN Bishop of London's Lent Appeal 2010 Dear colleagues, Fundraising in YOUR parish this Lent. For the past four years the staff of Spaghetti House in Knightsbridge have supported the Diocese's Lent Appeal in our parish. Over that time they've helped us as a parish to raise over £50,000 for lenten ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2010/03/01/give-to-lent-appeal-by-eating-at-spaghetti-house/ Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent (with Baptism), 28th February 2010 Fr Richard Coles   From the letter to the Philippians: for many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.   In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.   A week or two ago on Ash Wednesday ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2010/02/28/sermon-21st-february-lent-ii/ 'A Matter of Death and Life' by Fr Alan Gyle, Vicar The saddest point in our week at St Paul’s was the funeral on Thursday of the outrageously influential fashion designer Alexander McQueen. But that Johnny Depp was staying next door at The Berkeley, and that as a result Wilton Place was ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2010/02/27/weekly-reflection-28th-february-2010-lent-ii/ Please be seated… by Fr Richard Coles, Senior Curate To Dorset on my day off, a six hour drive thanks to the failure of Tom Tom, the idiocy of the navigator (me), and the closure of the A303; but it was a journey well worth making. I had gone to meet David ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2010/02/21/94/ Sermon for the Sunday next before Lent, 14th February 2010 Fr Nick Mercer Glory, Postmodernity & Transfiguration “Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory” Luke 9.32 It was a residential Board of Trustees meeting in midsummer, and my first mistake was ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2010/02/14/14th-february-2010/ The reason for the season... One of the inestimable pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size. If you want to yodel, or play ice hockey, or dance the tango (or do all three together), there are enough ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2009/11/29/weekly-reflection-29th-november-5th-december-2009/ Remembrance (ii) Normally the lives of Prime Ministers and middle aged mothers of six from Portslade rarely, if ever, intersect. Last week they did, poignantly, and the papers have been full of it ever since. Late one night, from an unsleeping No 10, one of the former wrote a letter to ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2009/11/13/weekly-reflection-16th-22nd-november-2009/ I wanna tell you a story... It is not often Max Bygraves intrudes into my waking thoughts (though his version of Deck of Cards was the soundtrack to many a nightmare). However, lately I keep hearing in my mind's ear his catchphrase, I wanna tell you a story. It began ... http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/2009/10/09/weekly-reflection-11th-17th-october-2009/