Daily Prayer Now that we are settling into the famously long liturgical period of ‘Sundays after Trinity’, we will be having a lot of Gospel readings from the Gospel according to St Luke this year. As a gospel writer, Luke’s ancient symbol is the ox. Jesus is depicted as the powerful beast of burden, […]
Midsummer In the northern hemisphere we’ll be celebrating midsummer this week and in Estonia, where I live, the skies never get really dark. Estonians call the midsummer festival ‘Jaanipäev’ (St John’s day), but, despite the name, few Estonians make the connection between the longest day and St John. The summer solstice was a pagan festival […]
Trinity The teaching of the Holy Trinity may seem a bit dry for those of us who like our understanding of God to be shaped by stories and pictures. But it is foundational for Christians because it defines who God is, how salvation is accomplished, and how we as believers relate to God and […]
Pentecost Pentecost (from Greek pentekoste, “fiftieth”, “of fifty days”) has its roots in the Jewish Festival of Shavuot or Weeks, which ended on the fiftieth day after Passover. שָׁבוּעוֹת The Jewish Festival of Shavuot commemorates the gift of the Torah in the desert of Sinai; God lives among his people in the form of his […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
