Mar 10, 2025 | Dear Vicar Letters
Dear Friends March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. According to Royal Museums Greenwich, the 2025...
Jan 27, 2025 | Dear Vicar Letters
Dear Friends February is a time to look out for “Snowdrops” (galanthas nivalis) better known as “Candlemas Bells” across the local woods, nature reserves, parks across Wokingham and Bracknell. These flowers often bloom around this time of the year, even before...
Dec 20, 2024 | Dear Vicar Letters
Dear Friends Happy New Year and a “Wokingham Without” welcome to 2025. I hope you had a welcome break during this Christmas season, time with your family and friends. And it was lovely to see some of you in our church services. Edith Lovejoy Pierce once said: “We...
Nov 28, 2024 | Dear Vicar Letters
Dear Friends, CS Lewis said, “Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our world”. According to Max Lucado, “the story of Christmas is the story of God’s relentless love for us”. The questions for today as we approach Christmas are...
Oct 22, 2024 | Dear Vicar Letters
Dear Friends November has always been a time of festivals and celebrations marking the end of Harvest and beginning of Winter. In this Parish of Wokingham St Sebastian’s and neighbouring communities of Wokingham and Bracknell, it is also a time where through baptism...
Sep 30, 2024 | Dear Vicar Letters
Dear Friends Welcome to the month of October in Wokingham Without and beyond its borders. It is the time of year when Autumn begins. In fact, according to the UK Met Office, Autumn is determined by the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, which began between 22nd and 23rd...
