St Michael’s Christmas Services
Get Christmas started in the right way at St Michael’s: Carols by Candle Light: Sunday 16th December, 4pm Family Christingle: Sunday 23rd December, 4pm Midnight Mass: Monday 24th December, 11pm Christmas Day Celebration: Tuesday 25th December, 10am Learn more...
Remembrance Sunday
Come join us on the 11th of November, 10am at St Michael’s for a special service to commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War and the soldiers of Ocklynge who sacrificed their lives. The church is open till 4pm after the service for private...
We’re open to all
St Michael’s Church is now open to all on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays between 10am and 2pm come and see inside our Church, offer your prayers or just spend some quiet...
St Michael’s Patronal Festival
Come and celebrate with us! Join us for a joyful celebration service followed by a phenomenal buffet lunch! Come because you want to worship with us, celebrate with us, see what we are up to or simply because you want a free lunch! Looking forward to seeing you all...
James and the tongue
Today’s New Testament reading (James 3:1-12) is one of the most peculiar passages in the NT. There’s no mention of Jesus or his words -but who would disagree with these comments about loose speech. We looked closely at this epistle of James, the brother of Jesus, in...
Praise
Do we sometimes mistake saying words for real worship? Is saying something the same thing as doing it? For example: We say ‘I am sorry’ to God in the Confession: do we always mean it? We all know the Lord’s Prayer by heart, but how many of us actually pray it? Do we...
Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect!
Today’s Gospel reading concludes Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus proclaimed the Law of the kingdom of God, the ideal of which can be summarized in this phrase: “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt. 5:48) Jesus seems to be correcting the Law...
Intercessions
Last week I was down to lead the Intercessions. It made me think about what Intercessions are and how we should go about interceding for others. I offer these thoughts to you this morning. Someone I was reading wrote that it was when he prayed he found he was most...