Two years ago, I read all of the Agatha Christie “Miss Marple” novels in order. Miss Jane Marple is an old lady from a tiny village who watches everything, has an unusually sharp mind and deploys both to solve murders. In many of the stories towards the end, Miss Marple gathers all the characters together…
Month: March 2018
Time lapse of St Peter's
Thanks to photography student James Semken for this rather different view of St Peter’s Church!
Lo, the full final sacrifice
The Director of Music writes: The First World War came as an intense and irreparable shock to all aspects of British life, with many musicians seeing active service. In the decades between the wars, British music began to diversify; an ‘English Pastoral’ style developed, partly from the invocations of Englishness in the music of Elgar…
The Music of Thomas Tallis
Music Matters – March 2018 The Director of Music writes… Avid followers of the Music List will have noticed that the Sundays in Lent are ‘bookended’ by motets by Thomas Tallis: In iejunio et fletu on the First Sunday of Lent and Salvator mundi on the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Another Tallis motet, O sacrum…
An Occasion to Remember Homeless People who have died
The Occasion for Remembering Homeless People who have died came from an idea by one person in St Peter’s taken up by the Care for our Common Home group formed of people from both churches. This is the first time I have seen an idea, a thought become an actual living event. This, done through…