Through Holy Week, we’ve been hosting Compline services at 7pm. However tonight, as we reach the day we remember the last supper, betrayal and Jesus arrest, we focus on the events of Maundy Thursday.
Through Holy Week, we’re hosting Compline services at 7pm; tonight, Debbie Sellin leads from Southampton.
Through Holy Week, we’re hosting Compline services at 7pm; tonight, Peter Salisbury leads from the vicarage in Lymington.
Through Holy Week, we’re hosting Compline services at 7pm; tonight, Rachel Noël leads from the vicarage in Pennington.
Our Palm Sunday service, a collaborative effort between St Mark’s and St Thomas churches.
A first for St Mark’s: service given from the upstairs spare bedroom of the vicarage (can we say an upper room?) Working with our neighbours at St Thomas’ in Lymington, Rachel talks about breathing, change – and her new pet caterpillars…
Our live streamed service from Sunday 22nd March
Our service from the 15th March, where we launched our first live streamed service!
Nicodemus ‘came to Jesus by night’: the night and darkness bring fears: for nothing to do we pray the Evening Collect. Some have said that Nicodemus was hiding in the darkness. By day Nicodemus knows who he is. He has an identity. He is a Pharisee. He has a role and a reputation as a leader of the Jews. He is ‘Israel’s teacher’. But by night Nicodemus is confused: and so comes to Jesus to be illuminated.
Sometimes it’s easy to get completely overwhelmed in a world that seems to demand easy, quick answers to every situation. The story of Jesus temptations in the wilderness suggests that this is not new: all Jesus temptations were for the quick, instant, easy solution. But each time, he refuses. This is the invitation of Lent: to follow in Christ’s footsteps, to move through the wilderness of self-deception – and to live in the truth of Christ.