Advent 2 – Mark 1.1-86 December 2020 – Rev Sarah Bachelard How do you prepare for the radical intersection of divine with human life? How do you get ready for God breaking directly into our world, our experience, coming to be with us in person? That’s what the season of Advent is about and today’s … [Read more…]
Rev Roger Munson – 29 November, 2020 Thank you for the opportunity to share with you some of my long experience working with people who have mental health issues. This is an important day as everyone of us will know of someone who has mental health issues or your own lived experience. The good old … [Read more…]
Saturday 12 December 20209am – 2pmCraft and Christmas Craft: Gifts & decorations.Books: something to suit all ages. Plants: plants to bloom throughout summer.Treasures & White Elephant: large range, including puzzles, games and kids things.Jewellery: new and pre-loved jewellery.Sausage Sizzle: cooked on the premises.St Ninian’s, cnr Mouat & Brigalow Sts, Lyneham Covid 19 safety: Please do not … [Read more…]
22 November 2020 – Neil Millar Over the past five weeks we’ve been exploring different aspects of Celtic Christianity – its history and theology, the Celtic experience and understanding of the world. We’ve touched on their commitment to prayer and poetry, their appreciation of the physical world, and of life’s pattern and flow. This morning, … [Read more…]
15 November 2020 – Ann Munro From out the Hebridean mistsappears a vivid star:‘Bethlehem of the Isles’;small in stature,yetfor the Wild Goosea nurturing place;from whence,by Columbaand other faithful followers,Christ’s message soared afar.Bethlehem of the Isles: Iona, by the Scottish poet Kenneth Steven. The heyday of Celtic Christianity was from the fifth to the eighth centuries, … [Read more…]
Saturday 14 November 2020 9am – 2pm Treasures: good quality glassware, china, ornaments, toiletries and kids items. Jewellery: new and pre-loved jewellery. Craft and Fabric Remnants: selection of handmade items, haberdashery and material remnantsCountry Kitchen: jams, marmalades, sauces, pickles and relish. Sausage Sizzle: cooked on the premises. St Ninian’s, cnr Mouat & Brigalow Sts, Lyneham Covid 19 safety: Please do not attend if you … [Read more…]
8 November – Neil Millar These sonorous opening lines of the Altus Prosator, a somewhat forbidding poem attributed to Columba, paint a picture of God as primordial, foundational, utterly transcendent and awesome’ (Bradley 2018.67), and a similar emphasis on divine mystery and ineffability pervades many of the prayers and poems of the so-called ‘golden age’ … [Read more…]
1 November 2020 – Ann Munro The Celtic, pilgrim, sailor saints set out to find the promised land in open boats of skins stretched out on wood: the Cross and just themselves was all they carried. Carrying within their hearts the God they sought; exiles for the love of Christ, they hoped to reach their … [Read more…]
25th October 2020 – Neil Millar Last week Ann gave a very helpful introduction to the Celts and their culture prior to the advent of Christianity, and next week she’ll share another chapter in this unfolding story. In my reflections, I hope to expand a little on aspects of Celtic Christian spirituality. In taking this … [Read more…]
18 October 2020 – Ann Munro In the final centuries of the first millennium BC, the new technologies of the Iron Age fanned out to put all of Western Europe on the anvil. They hammered their way to Spain and France, Britain and Germany, Denmark and Norway, in the hands of an emotional, energetic, creative … [Read more…]