St. Cecilia Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the second newsletter for the parish of St. Cecilia .

Peace and Joy to all who read.

Throughout the summer St. Cecilia’s has been involved in small projects, one of these being ‘Faith links’ the project will be holding a festival of Faith, Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion, called ‘Harmony’ in the summer of 2008, the project hopes that this will be interactive, involving music, drama arts and really engaging people.

It has been great for me to be involved in such a project and I have learnt so much from talking to others about their faiths.

Isn’t it great that no matter what we believe, how we worship what we wear. A group of people can come together from all different beliefs and faiths and share a time of fellowship together.

Interaction between all beliefs and faiths, I believe is the way forward in this day and age. Its all to easy to become blinkered in ‘our’ way of doing things that we can at times forget that we have so much to learn from others.

God is Love

Everywhere we go, God goes, because God has joined Himself to us by the Spirit, but we must be careful not to think that all we say, do, or think, is of God.

If we are honest we do not often experience the control and love of God’s Spirit in our lives. We are often unkind and selfish in our deeds and in what we say or think. God made us so that we could enjoy the company the life, of Gods own self, with one another.

When we feel genuine love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, patience, goodness and self control within our hearts and minds, this is a reflection of God’s own nature within us.

God is LOVE

Exodus ch 34 v 6

Micah ch 7 v 18

Corinthians ch 13 vs 4-8a

Ephesians ch 3 v 19

1 John ch 4 vs 8-10 & 16

A little boy talking to his dad, says

‘Dad mums Bible must be more interesting than yours’,

The dad looking a little perplexed at his son says

‘Why do you say that?’

A student talking to his teacher asks’

‘Does a good beginning and a good ending make a good sermon?

The teacher replies’

‘If they are close enough together’!

A visitor to a Church turns to a member and says’

‘Your preacher is sure long winded’

The member replies,

‘He may be long…………….but trust me never winded!’

And one to make you think

An usher went up to a man with his hat on in Church and asked him to remove it. “Thank goodness,” said the man, “I thought that would do it. I’ve attended this Church for months, and you are the first person who has spoken to me!!

St. Cecilia

Virgin and martyr, patroness of Church music, martyred c.117.

Feast day, November 22nd

St Cecilia was featured on the reverse of the £20 note in the UK , from 1999 to 2007, accompanied by composer
Sir Edward Elgar

St Cecilia ’s is very small and we meet as a home group for Bible study, prayer worship and fellowship.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them

Matthew 18:20

If you would like to know more about St. Cecilia ’s

Service times, please contact the team on 07861185746

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You.

You can email me on reverend.neill@virgin.net

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Thank you

Reverend Suzanna