Carols for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany
Over the last few weeks our church choir at St Mary, Storrington have been preparing carols for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons.
The singing voices for the carols have been prepared individually by the choir in the comfort and safety of their homes.
By the power technology, all the voice parts are brought together and blended to form our choir singing together.
Our warmest wishes to those in our parish and afar from Storrington Church Choir.
Please click here for a link to the Carol Sheet containing all the words of the Carols.
Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Silent night, holy night
Away in a manger
O little town of Bethlehem
O come all ye faithful
Please find below the website, login and password for view of Laurence Hardy’s funeral service.
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Service order for |
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Service Date |
13-Nov-20 at 2:00 |
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Service Chapel |
Kingswood - Worthing |
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Website |
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Username |
Boko4037 |
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Password |
005916 |
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Webcast: |
Live Webcast & Watch Again |
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Please send this username and password exactly as above to family and friends. You can login to our website at any time to view a test connection (and we strongly recommend you do this) but you'll only be able to view the Live Webcast approx. 5 mins before the service start time. Please be aware this is a public building and the timing of the Live webcast is semi-automated to allow for services running early or late – please use your discretion if you can see activities not applicable to the service you are here to watch. Once the service has finished, it will take us up to 3 working days to get the 28-day Watch Again onto the website. |
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Remembrance Hymn
Our church choir have prepared a hymn and an anthem for Remembrance Sunday, recorded individually in the safety of their homes to create this singing together hymn, broadcast at our online and gathered services on Sunday 8th November.
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come:
This hymn written by Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 90, with strong themes on assurance, promise and hope.
The hymn reminds us that God is eternal and forever with us in our earthly lives, which sometimes can be troubled and stormy, and promises the great joys of “our eternal home”. We are reminded that God is timeless in comparison to our own human mortality; we are here for a moment, but God’s time is eternal – “A thousand ages in thy sight”, and, more poignantly, for today’s remembrance theme, “Time like an everlasting stream bears all its sons away”. We will remember them.
God our help in ages past
He came singing love:
This short anthem is written by Colin Gibson, a teacher and writer living in New Zealand. This music arrangement for choir is by Geoff Weaver.
Using song as a metaphor for life, the text of this anthem suggests that each of us can help love, faith, hope and peace to flourish in our world through living them out in our lives.
He came singing love
Message from Stephen Bloxham - Remembrance Sunday 2020 – Remember at home
This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and current restrictions in England, the Royal British Legion have suggested that you can observe the Act of Remembrance at home, rather than attend a local service.
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland have produced an Order of Service for a Service of Remembrance at home. This service includes preparation for the two-minute silence, readings, prayers, and music; including a link to music from our choir at St Mary, Storrington.
Service of Remembrance at home – Order of Service
As part of your Act of Remembrance at home, you might like to colour in a Poppy Appeal Remembrance Poppy poster to display in your window.
If you are on social media, such as Twitter or Facebook, you can follow #RememberAtHome for further information.
For more information about the Royal British Legion and how to make a donation to the 2020 Poppy Appeal – https://www.britishlegion.org.uk
All Saints’ Day Hymn
Our church choir have prepared a hymn for All Saints’ Day, recorded individually in the safety of their homes to create this singing together hymn, broadcast at our online and gathered services on Sunday 1st November.
At this time of year, we give thanks for those people who have been like lights to us, both those who lived long ago, and those living now. We ask for help to shine like lights ourselves to help others. As the autumnal night draws in and it starts to feel wintry, we are reminded that God is with us in dark and difficult times, when we are sad or ‘in the dark’. The Bible calls Jesus the “Light of the World” and says that “the light shone in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it”.
You might like to light a candle at home when listening to this song as a reminder of Jesus, light of the world shining in the midst of the darkness.
Stephen Bloxham
For Agenda and reports please click the appropriate link below:
Agenda Vestry Mtg & APCM 30.9.2020
Minutes of the Vestry Meeting and APCM 11 April 2019
Trustees Annual Report and Financial Report 2019 Final
DEANERY_SYNOD_REPORT_on 2019_for_2020 APCM
Footsteps, church @4 and Safeguarding Report
CHURCH WARDENS REPORT DECEMBER 2018 TO DECEMBER 2019-1
Handbellringers report for pcc 2019
STORRINGTON REGISTERS
Funerals – we commend to God’s nearer keeping ...
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7 April |
Kathleen Irene Rosoman (96 years) |
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24 April |
William John Gordon Rowlands (92 years) |
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27 April |
Hugh Bowen Francis (84 years) |
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4 May |
Sylvia Humphrey (82 years) |
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20 May |
Donald “Don” Charles Sherwood (92 years) |
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26 May |
Joyce Chacksfield (86 years) |
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26 May |
Rosina Gladys Mayne (99 years) |
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8 June |
Doronee Felicia Monypenny of Pitmilly (77 years) |
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8 June |
Patricia Suter (84 years) |
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18 June |
Violet Jean Mary Nunn (78 years) |
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22 June |
Genevieve Vivienne Lavinia Geary (70 years) |
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13 July |
Veronica Brook (78 years) |
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16 July |
Hazel Olive Hammond (87 years) |
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30 July |
Patricia Susan Davis (73 years) |
Interment of ashes only:
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29 April |
Derek Frank Stoner (91 years) |
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29 June |
Maureen Phyllis Stoner (89 years) |
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31 July |
Elsie Florence Greenfield (98 years) |
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1 August |
John Warren Dillow (93 years) |
For the Online Zoom Service click here.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Sunday, 17th January 2021
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Each day is a new day; …..begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
Proverbs 4:18
Extracted from Spiritual Thoughts 17/01/2011 Maritta Terrell
Thought for the Week - Jacquie Peal.
But then, the inoculation programme IS getting going, there IS the beginning of a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, just 'a little candle flame, flickering small in our darkness'.
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
If you would like to help populate this page with brief but uplifting contributions, please send suggestions to Charles Hadley.
It could be a proverb, a Bible text, an anecdote, a snippet of good news…Max length 75 words.
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