Sleaford Parish Church 

Quarantine. Isolation. A bed, a chair, a writing table and a window. Three meals a day, an hour’s exercise in the yard, and periodic...

STORM ARWEN Back in December a place in Cumbria I know well was hit by Storm Arwen. A lot of snow was dumped on the hills in a very short...

REMEMBRANCE As we move into November we begin a season of Remembrance. The centrepiece of the month is, of course, Remembrance Sunday,...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Happy New Year! You may think this is a little premature, especially as we haven’t yet celebrated Christmas, but this is...

This year’s summer excursion to the Lakeland fells brought its fair share of excitement. We decided to make an ascent of Blencathra (also...

The season of Harvest Festivals has crept up on me rather unexpectedly this year! During July and August I watched the combine harvesters...

I have been looking back over past editions of the Coronacle. This is the 22nd edition! In the 7th edition I wrote (just as we were...

Ordinary Time! The Sundays after Trinity that lead us from Pentecost to Advent – almost half of the church year. I love the phrase...

The month of May is framed by bank-holidays – May day and Whitsun (the old name for Pentecost). The actual bank-holidays may have become...

The past twelve months may have felt like the longest Lent ever. If we think of Lent in terms of giving something up, then how do we...

Palm Sunday is normally a day of drama: the service would begin outside the church, in the marketplace. With palm crosses lifted high we...

Vicar's Message- 5th March 2021 Last year I recorded the Mothering Sunday service in the Lady Chapel. It was the first service I recorded...

I can’t believe it is nearly Ash Wednesday! Lent is almost upon us. Our first YouTube service of lockdown was for Mothering Sunday – the...

Lockdown 3.0 – who would have guessed that we would be in lockdown again! For all the talk of recapturing the spirit of March once again,...

A voice cries out in the wilderness…’ I wonder what you think of when you hear the word ‘wilderness’. There are few places in the UK that...

At the time of writing my last piece for the Coronacle I knew that Remembrance Sunday would be different this year. I had not expected...

Well, that was the Summer holidays! I don’t think the holidays lived up to my expectations but then I’m not sure that I knew what my...

This is the 10th edition of the Coronacle! What was intended as a short term means of communication has become a new ‘normal’. This is...

All Saints, All Souls, Remembrance… and onwards to Christ the King and Advent. In recent times this period from All Saints to Advent has...

The Summer holidays are here at last! The schools have broken up! apart from the fact that many children have not been to school for...