A warm welcome to Minchinhampton and to the Parish Church.
In addition to this website you can find information on our "daughter" church of St Barnabas in the village of Box on the south west side of the parish on the Box Village website
In May of this year the Parish celebrates the 750th Anniversary of the installation of the first Rector of Minchinhampton. For more information and the plans as they develop please CLICK HERE
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Our Rector Writes - March 2010 |
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Christmas and Easter are central to what the Christian faith is all about and the preparations for and celebrations of each are demanding and exhausting, but in different ways. You feel that you’re just about getting over Christmas – if that’s not a wholly indecent way of putting it – and then you’re into Lent, Holy week and Easter!
The exhaustion associated with Christmas has more to do, I suspect, with the experience of the days becoming shorter, the weather getting colder and more difficult - snow, ice, fog! - the frenetic activity in getting everything ready for the festivities - shopping, Christmas presents and so on – and with the general expectations of society at large.
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