Dear Friends,
“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.”
The Song of Simeon in St. Luke’s account of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, which we will hear on Sunday, is familiar to many from its place in the services of Evensong and Compline. When Archbishop Cranmer simplified the seven services of the daily office into two for the Prayer Book, he took the Magnificat from the evening service of Vespers and the Nunc Dimittis from the final service of the day, Compline.
Because many people were not able to access last weekend’s video, this weekend’s video re-issues Hugh’s sermon from his leaving service last Sunday. Here is the link:
Dear Friends,
In Sunday’s gospel – in either the Prayer Book or Common Worship lectionaries – we hear the third of the ‘epiphanies’ or manifestations of our Lord: the first of the ‘signs’ in John in which Jesus “revealed his glory”: the changing of water into wine at the wedding of Cana.
Here is our e-Church video for 9th January
You can download our weekly sheet for the week ahead here
https://www.stnicholaslincoln.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/22_01_09_Weekly-Sheet.pdf
Our e-Church video this week is one from the archive, our Epiphany service from early in 2021. Please use the link below to access this act of worship:
You can download our Weekly Sheet for this coming week here:
https://www.stnicholaslincoln.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/22_01_02_Weekly-Sheet.pdf
Here is our Christmas e-Church video
Merry Christmas!
These days I find that fewer and fewer people say it that way. ‘Happy’ often replaces ‘Merry’, but I like the contrast between Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Happiness and merriment, after all, aren’t quite the same thing. Merriment belongs to a time of feasting and celebration. It can’t last for ever, nor is it supposed to. No one really wishes that it could be Christmas every day!
Here is our e-Church video for Sunday 19th December