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The reason for the hope that we have Two contrasting events this week have inspired me to write this blog.  In the Chaplaincy we have been hosting the Christian Union events week.  The Chaplaincy functions as the morning meeting and...

Recently I attended a meeting with Priest colleagues in Bath.  I am sometimes unsettled in such company.  It is so lovely to imagine them with their own church, leading their congregations in the way they feel is right.  It is...

This week I attended a service at Christ Church, Julian Road, Bath to welcome and install a newly appointed priest in charge.  Heather is new to the diocese, and this was a great celebration.  Christ Church plays an important part...

Paul in Corinth, and his teaching on unity. “Unity and Diversity in the Body” Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so...

Today’s set reading from Philippians, for Holy Communion this morning, has a word of direction and encouragement for us, as the month gets underway. St Paul writes: “But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of...

Luke 2: 15-20 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” So they hurried...

Hi, my name is Katy, I’m a curate in the Church of England (trainee vicar) at a church just down the road in Combe Down. This last week I have been on placement here at the Chaplaincy and here is...

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” Matthew 5: 9 It is impossible to avoid the events unfolding in Israel and Gaza. Horrific pictures and accounts of violence and suffering dominate our screens. This can...

In these days when we are all appalled by the outbreak of war in the Middle East the world is more than ever in need of peacemakers.  As our thoughts and prayers go to all who are affected by the...

This is a time of new beginnings.  For many of us, some of our strongest memories from childhood is the return to school after the summer holidays. Even as adults who are not involved in education, the start of the...