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St Albans Pilgrim Way launched by pilgrims at St Paul’s Cathedral
20th June 2019
On Wednesday 19 June at midday, a giant 12-foot puppet of Britain’s first saint, St Alban, was joined by visitors and pilgrims outside St Paul’s Cathedral to launch a new walking pilgrimage route. The sun shone as the pilgrims and puppets set off on their journey, though the weather turned as the party reached Regent’s… Read more »
Luton Peace Vigil #BeatingKnives
19th June 2019
Luton activists and faith communities gather to beat knife violence Visitors to Luton’s Mall on 18th June were among the first to encounter the ‘#BeatingKnives Peace Vigil’ passing through the shopping centre. The vigil was one of only three similar events in the UK, the others being in East London and in Birmingham. Each is… Read more »
Thy Kingdom Come Beacon Celebration at St Albans Cathedral
12th June 2019
In the atmosphere of expectation appropriate to Pentecost around 1000 people from around Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, Luton and north London, came together to celebrate Thy Kingdom Come’s ten-day wave of prayer for new disciples of Christ. The service was attended by people of many denominations, some coming with their churches and some independently, all joining… Read more »
Service marks 25th anniversary of women’s ordination as priests
12th June 2019
This year is the 25th anniversary of women being ordained into the priesthood in the Church of England. Although many want to celebrate, and indeed did, there was also a feeling of drawing to a close these reminders, so that women’s priestly ministry can just become priestly ministry. I perceived a tension in how to… Read more »
Find ‘2018 in Focus’ in Alban Life
11th June 2019
St Albans Diocese’s annual report for 2018 is contained in the pages of Alban Life’s Pentecost edition. The stories there provide a glimpse of the many and varied activities in our parishes, schools and chaplaincies, in pursuit of the vision to Live God’s Love. Our aim is to create flourishing Christ-centred communities inspiring people of… Read more »
Aldenham School honours D-Day heroes
6th June 2019
Two old boys from Aldenham School who were in Normandy 75 years ago today were remembered with gratitude at the school this morning, with school chaplain Revd Philip Green:
Hertfordshire school choir win BBC Songs of Praise Senior School Choir of the Year 2019
5th June 2019
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts have won the much-coveted BBC Songs of Praise Senior School Choir of the Year 2019 competition for the second time in four years. The final, which was aired on Sunday 2 June on BBC1, saw the Tring Park School Chamber Choir, also known as the Tring Park 16,… Read more »
It’s Plastic Fantastic in Church!
20th May 2019
Plastic credit or debit cards have been around a VERY long time; so much so we don’t think twice before tapping our card, smart phone or smart watch and moving on. Contactless payments have made these devices more usable than ever and 2017 was the first year that saw more plastic payments than cash payments… Read more »
Could your church become an EcoChurch?
20th May 2019
St Stephen’s with St Julian’s Church, St Albans have provided a week-long display during the St Albans’ Sustainability Festival 2019 about how they are making St Stephen’s more environmentally friendly: raising awareness of awareness of climate change, environment, pollution and cherishing their churchyard. St Stephen’s have been using the EcoChurch framework from A Rocha UK,… Read more »
Bishop Richard Inwood, RIP – obituary
17th May 2019
Obituary. A correspondent writes: AS THE congregation filed quietly into St John’s, Walton, in Chesterfield, for the Rt Revd Richard Inwood’s funeral last month, a series of photographs of Richard were being projected on to the wall of the church: Richard as a young schoolboy, as a student at Oxford, as a young priest, at his… Read more »