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Invitation and Hospitality: the Essence of Evangelism

I have run and being involved in running both the ALPHA Course and Start! At their best, they are wonderful places in which to introduce people to basic teachings of the Christian faith, and more importantly to Jesus. At the … Continue reading

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Evangelism as a gift :-)

I spent some time in Sheffield with family this week – not enough time. It was a delight to collect my niece and her youngest brother from school. When we got to their home, my niece quickly ran upstairs and … Continue reading

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A weekend full of invitations

A weekend full of invitations Penwythnos llawn o gwahoddiadau Annwyl ffrindiau/Dear Friends, Please find as a downloadable link the final communications about next weekend’s various opportunities to invite our friends and neighbours to. I am an unusual creature. I love mission … Continue reading

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A Weekend Full of Invitations

A weekend of invitations on Holy Island Penwythnos llawn o wahoddiadau ar Ynys Cybi 6 piece Welsh language rock band, Calfari are headlining a concert on Friday 6th May at the ancient St Cybi’s Church in Holyhead as part of … Continue reading

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and there was evening and morning: a second year

Time flies when the proverbial is happening. In many ways, I still have to pinch myself to remember that I am the Vicar of Bro Cybi (Holy Island) on Ynys Mon. It is not a position ever imagined that I … Continue reading

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Lent 2016.4 Broken Priest breaking bread

Offeiriad calon toredig yn torri bara am byd toredig. Broken hearted priest breaks bread for a broken world. This is the stuff of deep magic. It was with some hesitancy that I took the service of Holy Communion on Sunday … Continue reading

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Lent 2016.3 The prayers of the penitent

In the last of the original Indiana Jones trilogy, the one with Sean Connery in it, Harrison Ford’s Indiana had to overcome a number of tests towards the end of the film to get to the site of the holy … Continue reading

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Lent 2016.2 Hiraeth: beautiful and melancholy

  Hiraeth is an almost untranslatable Welsh word. It means something like a longing, aching or a homesickness for something that cannot be reached or is lost. It is a week since I stood in Grenoside Crematorium in Sheffield and … Continue reading

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Lent 2016.1 Vulnerable and Divine

Remember that I am a complex vulnerable human being full of contradictions yet with the imprint of the divine #Lentbegins I am going to try to post a blog regularly during Lent. I am not sure I will make it. … Continue reading

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2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading

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