tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372850932024-03-18T17:56:07.648+00:00St Peter and St Paul, SealNews, information and comment from the parish priestAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.comBlogger1435125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-52231729172857095132024-03-17T00:00:00.003+00:002024-03-17T00:00:00.307+00:00Sunday Worship Podcast link and other news from Seal Church: March 17 2024 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061DONATE TO SEAL CHURCH HERE - all contributions gratefully received to keep the church thriving!In the church building today10 am Holy CommunionNO MESSYAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-33821699400656834342024-03-10T00:00:00.002+00:002024-03-10T00:00:00.317+00:00Sunday Worship podcast and other news from Seal Church: March 10: Mothering Sunday Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061DONATE TO SEAL CHURCH HERE - all contributions gratefully received to keep the church thriving!In the church building today10 am All Age Worship for Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-66305710304777116742024-03-03T08:00:00.001+00:002024-03-03T08:00:00.136+00:00Sunday Worship podcast and other news from Seal: March 3 2024 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061DONATE TO SEAL CHURCH HERE - all contributions gratefully received to keep the church thriving!In the church building today10 am Holy Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-56533184724924525382024-02-25T00:00:00.001+00:002024-02-25T00:00:00.315+00:00Sunday worship podcast link and other news from Seal Church: Feb 25 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061DONATE TO SEAL CHURCH HERE - all contributions gratefully received to keep the church thriving!In the church building today10 am Holy Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-72787150764637774522024-02-18T08:00:00.002+00:002024-02-18T08:00:00.194+00:00Sunday Worship podcast and other news from Seal Church: Feb 18 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061DONATE TO SEAL CHURCH HERE - all contributions gratefully received to keep the church thriving!In the church building today10 am Holy Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-59836633774107453542024-02-11T08:00:00.001+00:002024-02-11T08:00:00.262+00:00Sunday Worship podcast link and other news from Seal Church: Feb 11 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061DONATE TO SEAL CHURCH HERE - all contributions gratefully received to keep the church thriving!In the church building today10 am All Age Worship&Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-10954025503792030862024-02-04T08:00:00.005+00:002024-02-04T08:00:00.239+00:00Sunday Worship podcast link and other news: Feb 4 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061DONATE TO SEAL CHURCH HERE - all contributions gratefully received to keep the church thriving!In the church building today10 am Holy Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-10246761936811648002024-02-02T08:52:00.000+00:002024-02-02T08:52:05.721+00:00Candlemas podcast: Feb 2 Dear FriendsAn extra podcast this week, to celebrate the Feast of Candlemas. If you still have your Christmas decorations up (our crib is still up at the vicarage), now is the moment to take them down as we say goodbye to the Christmas season and turn our thoughts towards Lent and Easter!There will be the usual podcast on Sunday.Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-11814572250297332132024-01-28T08:00:00.001+00:002024-01-28T08:00:00.153+00:00Sunday worship podcast and other news from Seal Church: Jan 28 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. In today's podcast, Kevin is preaching on the readings for the fourth Sunday of Epiphany. Our Sunday morning service in church will celebrate the feast of Candlemas, and there will be a podcast of worship for this feast available on Feb 2, the official day of the feast, with a sermon from me. I will send Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-21979877776785480652024-01-21T08:00:00.001+00:002024-01-21T08:00:00.298+00:00Sunday Worship Podcast and other news from Seal Church: Jan 21 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061In the church building today10 am Holy Communion3-4.30pm Messy Church6.30pm EvensongThis week: Wed 10 am Zoom Church Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-70659652825788938532024-01-14T08:00:00.001+00:002024-01-14T08:00:00.157+00:00Sunday Worship Podcast link and other news from Seal Church: Jan 14 2024 Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061 In the church building today10 am All Age Worship 6.30pm Breathing Space Holy CommunionThis week: Wed 4.30-5pm Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-82149932732984679552024-01-07T08:00:00.002+00:002024-01-07T08:00:00.230+00:00Sunday worship podcast and other news: Jan 7 Epiphany Sunday Dear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. Anne Le BasWorship OnlineWorship podcast - Click on picture aboveOrder of serviceYou can also access this podcast by phoning 01732 928061 In the church building today10 am Holy Communion for Epiphany Sunday6.30pm Said Evensong with hymnsThis week: Wed 10am Zoom Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-4018494992055403902023-12-25T08:00:00.001+00:002023-12-25T08:00:00.130+00:00Christmas Day podcasts from Seal Church Dear FriendsMerry Christmas from all at Seal!Listen to our Christmas podcast by clicking on the picture above. If you would like to hear the story I told at our Christmas Day morning service, click on the video below. (It will go live from 10 am on Christmas Day - no spoilers for those coming to the service in church!)There will not be a newsletter or podcast next Sunday (New Year's Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-77841143150148759192023-12-24T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-24T00:00:00.137+00:00Day Twenty-four: JesusOur final reflection has to be on the
child at the centre of the story, Jesus himself. He is the one whom the Wise
Men have come all this way to find. There’s no indication in the Bible about
what they see in him which so convinces them that he is the one, other than the
fact that the star they have followed stops over the place where he was born,
but they seem to have no doubt. They kneel beforeAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-66598818014177574992023-12-23T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-23T00:00:00.248+00:00Day Twenty-three: Mary
Of course, Mary is a prominent figure in
every depiction of the Nativity. It couldn’t happen without her. But Brueghel
makes it clear that her role is to enable her son to do his work. She looks
down at the Wise Men, as they present their gifts, holding Jesus so that he can
acknowledge them.
She has a gentle smile, and looks
deep in thought, clad in the blue robe she often wears in Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-54401546158935471802023-12-22T00:00:00.001+00:002023-12-22T00:00:00.345+00:00Day Twenty-two: JosephIt is often quite difficult to spot Joseph
in paintings of the Nativity. In some he is out at the back of the stable,
tending to the animals, peripheral to the action. Brueghel has put him centre
stage, immediately behind Mary, and given him a halo too, so we can’t miss him.
But he isn’t the focus of the story in the way Mary and the child are, and he
certainly isn’t pushing himself forward.
Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-16407285204138479732023-12-21T00:00:00.001+00:002023-12-21T00:00:00.341+00:00Day Twenty-one: The third Wise Man and his servant Like the other wise men, this one, bringing frankincense, is
clearly modelled on his father’s depiction. One tradition about the wise men
suggested they originated in each of the three known continents of the world at
the time, one from Europe, one from Asia, and one from Africa, as this one is.
They represent the whole world coming to Jesus.
This rather elegant, white-clad young man Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-73424893198945423262023-12-20T00:00:00.003+00:002023-12-20T12:18:22.226+00:00Day Twenty: the second Wise Man: MyrrhThe second Wise Man, kneeling in front of
Jesus, offers myrrh, a highly fragrant ointment, often used in healing and in
anointing the dead.
Jan Brueghel’s Magi are very clearly “borrowed” from his
father’s depiction of the scene (detail below - also
on show in the National Gallery). They wear the same colours, and carry almost
identical gifts, for example, this second Magus, with his ermine Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-39950932977720468662023-12-19T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-19T00:00:00.162+00:00Day Nineteen: The first Wise Man: Gold <!--[endif]-->
The first Wise Man, kneeling on the left, brings his gift of
gold, in the shape of a gold vessel. There is a chest just beside him, perhaps
containing more treasure. Matthew’s Gospel doesn’t tell us how many Magi there
were, and Eastern tradition said there were twelve, but Western European
tradition settled on three, simply because the Gospels named three types of
gift theyAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-21103894228516563812023-12-18T00:00:00.003+00:002023-12-18T07:24:14.158+00:00 Day Eighteen: The Shepherds
This little group of men with their dogs,
sticks and even a set of bagpipes are almost certainly the shepherds, whom
Luke’s account of the nativity say were the first visitors after the birth of
Christ. Matthew says nothing of the shepherds, and Luke says nothing of the
Magi, but Brueghel, like every nativity play ever, has included both groups in
his “mash-up” version of Jesus’ Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-6163543629090787462023-12-17T08:00:00.005+00:002023-12-17T22:11:00.297+00:00Sunday Worship podcast and other news from Seal Church: Dec 17 2023
https://youtu.be/NdkziPUAlsM?si=xrdLgdW5f2XWuoOCDear FriendsListen to today's worship podcast by clicking on the picture above. There will not be a newsletter or podcast next Sunday (Christmas Eve), but there will be one on Christmas Day, which will include the sermon preached at the "Midnight" Mass - please note that it is at 9pm, not Midnight! - and the story I shall tell on Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-6033643913072424282023-12-17T00:00:00.003+00:002023-12-17T00:00:00.292+00:00Day Seventeen: The family and the soldiers
There are many
little encounters going on in the background of Breughel’s picture. Bearing in
mind that it is only around A3 size, it is amazing that he manages to give us
such detail.
I could have selected many
other groups, but my eye was drawn to a little scene on the left of the
painting. A man and a woman, who is holding a small child, are talking to some
soldiers mounting on horseback. Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-71549113261450679952023-12-16T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-16T00:00:00.140+00:00Day Sixteen: the crowds behind the stableYesterday we thought about the crowd
around the stable, pressing in to see Jesus, but there are plenty of other
people in Brueghel’s picture who seem not to be so bothered about the main
event, caught up in their own business.
In this little knot of people, just behind the stable, a man
in a red top and an apron is talking to a caped visitor. Perhaps the man with
the apron is a local trader or Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-8244242201426639722023-12-15T00:00:00.003+00:002023-12-15T00:00:00.144+00:00Day Fifteen: The onlookers around the stable Brueghel’s picture is crowded with people,
and for the next couple of days we will be looking at some of the groups in the
crowd.
We’ll start with those in the foreground,
in and around the stable. Some of the people in this crowd are clearly part of
the Magi’s retinue, but others seem to be locals, just intrigued to find out
what these extraordinary visitors have come to see. They are Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37285093.post-52881801614581373142023-12-14T00:00:00.002+00:002023-12-14T00:00:00.156+00:00Day Fourteen: the shoe and the bone/pipe?Why is there one lone shoe and what might
be a bone, or perhaps a clay pipe – I can’t decide - on the roof of the stable,
along with some other unidentifiable detritus? This is a real puzzle, and I
can’t find anything anywhere that explains it. Your guess is as good as mine!
Modern urban legends say that single shoes on roofs, or a
pair hanging from telephone wires mark
gang Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027055112792656907noreply@blogger.com0