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posted by: Joan Vine | on: Thursday, 28 February 2019, 09:56

Wednesday 27th February 2019 Mothers’ Union Worldwide Pesident, Sheran Harper, Commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Southwark Cathedral. In a colourful and packed Southwark Cathedral last night, Mrs Sheran Harper, was commissioned to her office as Worldwide President of Mothers’ Union, a movement of four million members wor ... read more

posted by: Joan Vine | on: Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 11:34

St Botolph (Botulf) - St Botolph was the Abbot of Iken, he is the patron saint of wayfarers, and he was one of the most revered saints of East Anglia. Botolph, was a young Saxon noble living around the 7th century and was sent along with his brother to a Benedictine Abbey in France to be educated. Whilst his brother went on to be a Dutch Bishop ... read more

posted by: Joan Vine | on: Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 13:57

Dear Mothers’ Union members, I feel the need to pass on some of the words and sentiments taken from a sermon given by our Parish Priest on Sunday. It was at Evening Prayer after enjoying a beautiful sun-soaked day that our Vicar approached the controversial subject of Shamima Begum the young Muslim woman who left England around four years ago ... read more

posted by: Joan Vine | on: Wednesday, 13 February 2019, 09:29

Lucy Bubb has recently pointed out that the students from St Mellitus College have written a Mothering Sunday Liturgy for 2019 with ideas and suggestions for the sermon. All the information has been uploaded onto the Mothers’ Union Diocesan website. If your clergy are super-busy and looking for some help for their Mothering Sunday Service, yo ... read more

posted by: Joan Vine | on: Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 10:36

On a cold but very bright Monday 28th January, the Trustees were delighted to meet together at midday to install the new diocesan banner in St Cedd's Chapel, Chelmsford Cathedral. The new, MU banner which was designed and approved by the Trustees in 2017 is of a far more modern theme featuring not only Mary Sumner but a young family too. The wordi ... read more

posted by: Joan Vine | on: Sunday, 3 February 2019, 11:08

Let us remember all those people who passed away during 2018. Family members, friends and neighbours, people we have loved, and now miss. Sad we may be, but we can rest assured that they are now in the loving arms of our Saviour. Margaret Harvey, our Diocesan Secretary, will stand down in the summer of 2019. We need someone to take over from her ... read more