‘Let there be light’: and there was light. And the Chaplain agreed with God and saw that the light was good…..as the scaffolding behind the Chancel and Chapel windows came down and the light once again shone through - showing up the cobwebs! How satisfying, I thought, to have light restored for Lent – the time in the [...]
Everything seems to have wilted in the heat this week – including me! No sooner than I put flowers in the Chapel, they did a dying swan, demanding that I notice them, replenish their water and, in the final instance, accept the fact that they don’t like being in a hothouse. Their determination to be listened to, and [...]
Today has been a very ‘Cambridge’ day – lots of students graduating and very many wonderful outfits on display – and not just a variety of academic hoods! I couldn’t help but notice the number of people who came into Michaelhouse cafe hobbling in high heels. Ludicrous, I thought – the things we do in the name [...]
Why is it that I’m always five minutes late for everything? I found myself musing on this when I arrived for Morning Prayer half way through the psalm for the second time this week. Am I congenitally incapable of being on time or is it something about our modern world that makes me think that [...]
Great St Mary's is an Anglican church in a parish of the Diocese of Ely. It is the University Church, Cambridge and also a part of the Greater Churches' Network.
