From the congregation newsletter.
Revd Pat McCormick was the father of our own Patricia Frank and the Vicar of St Martin's following Dick Sheppard.
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Getting older is not easy.
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One interesting element to being married to a half Lithuanian American is that I learn all sorts of little known facts. For example, did you know that Lithuania was the...
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At the same moment as The Bishop of London preached at the funeral service for Margaret Thatcher, “This is a place of hope”, I entered a place of deep despair.
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I am just about to set off on a two-week, four-continent trip, but I am determined not to break my one iron rule of travel – only carry-on luggage. Two...
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We didn’t bat an eyelid when the Dr Who tardis descended into Trafalgar Square this week, or when Tom Cruise jumped from a military helicopter as we were coming into...
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So, Lent is over again for another year. For many, it’s a relief as chocolate can now be chomped, alcohol is allowed, desserts will be devoured and coffee consumed.
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Last Tuesday I telephoned an old friend. I thought of her when in our Lent study groups we were asked by Sam to think of an “un-influential person” who yet...
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For many years at St Martin’s we have been blessed to have a donkey joining us on our Palm Sunday procession, often lovely Larry from Hackney City Farm.
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I went to see The Audience at the Gielgud Theatre this week. It is a study of the Queen and her weekly 20-minute conversation with the 12 prime ministers who’ve...
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