Letters from the Vicar
February 2025
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...
January 2025
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...
December 2024
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...
November 2024
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...
October 2024
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...
August 2024
Dear Friends Welcome to the summer months of August and September. This is a time when the sun rises the highest and we behold the beauty of warmth and sunshine, particularly in the local forests of Wokingham Without, Crowthorne, Bracknell and beyond. C S Lewis said,...
July 2024
Dear Friends Someone once said, “When was it the last time that you did something for the first time?” That had me thinking. Is there something I could do for the first time? Recognising acts of kindness and doing something kind for someone else is something new we...
June 2024
Dear Friends Welcome to the month of June. The sun is warming, the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and the garden is growing. June has both the longest and shortest days of the year depending on where we are standing! We’re in the northern hemisphere...
May 2024
Dear Friends Welcome to the month of May. ‘May’ has two special birth flowers – the Lily-of-the-Valley and the Hawthorn. The ‘Lily-of-the-Valley’ represents the return of happiness and sweetness whilst the ‘Hawthorn flower’ is a symbol of hope. Both flowers speak in a...
April 2024
Dear Friends Welcome to the month of April. We have just finished the season of Lent reflection and Easter during the last month of March. The season concluded on Easter Sunday when we celebrated the resurrection of Christ. The season of Lent was a time for deep...
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Location
Crowthorne is located in the Royal County of Berkshire close to the Hampshire and Surrey Borders.
The village of Crowthorne is split between the Unitary Authorities of Bracknell Forest Borough Council and Wokingham Borough Council and even those who live in the Wokingham Borough will tell you that they actually live in Crowthorne. There are few retail facilities within the Parish a small parade of shops in the east...