Category: Chapter Letter

Sunday 18 September 2022 Normal services will take place in the cathedral on Sunday morning, and everyone is welcome to attend.  After the 10am Sung Eucharist, the east end of…

This month, Churches will be observing the annual “Season of Creation”, a time of sustained prayer and action caring for the natural world, during which we are encouraged to pray…

Visions The spectacular Lincoln Cathedral flower festival ‘Vision’ celebrates the lives, ideas and actions of the visionaries who have helped shape the world. Their lives’ works immortalise these visionaries, and…

There is a version of Christianity we sometimes encounter, which portrays faith in Christ as some sort of protection against the trials and sufferings of life. The sort of view…

This weekend we wish the members of the Cathedral Choir well for their summer break – saying farewell to several choristers who have given faithful service over what has been…

Ordinary Time Since Ash Wednesday (March 2, 2022), churches have kept Lent, Passiontide (including Holy Week), Eastertide, Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday. This letter is the first to be written…

Over the present few weeks we are welcoming students from church schools across the diocese to a series of celebration days as they prepare to move on to secondary school. …

The Feast of the Ascension: a cause for celebration and encouragement! “Almighty God, whose blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ ascended far above all heavens that he might fill all things:…

On the Common Good Bless and guide Elizabeth our Queen; give wisdom to all in authority; and direct this and every nation in the ways of justice and of peace;…

Eastertide is for me one of those funny seasons where we are taken to the edge of what we know, and shown that there is more to see.  As a…

Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise: That, as his death calcined thee…

While donating to a charity appeal, I was reminded that there are currently many international crisis appeals, not only in Ukraine, but in Syria, where 11 years of civil war…