St George's Blog

Ordinations in 2020

God touches us - both in the Spirit and literally through the Sacraments - and Ordination requires a touch, from the bishop to the candidate. Please pray for those who have been preparing for ordination this year. Especially in our diocese for those who will be ordained later this year.

^{Sacred Order of Deacon}

^{By Bishop Robert on Saturday 26 September at 1100 in the Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Brussels:}

^{Annie Bolger (to serve as assistant curate, Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Brussels)}

^{Dorienke de Vries (to serve as assistant curate, Arnhem and Nijmegen)}

^{Robert Morley (to serve as assistant curate, All Saints, Milan)}

^{Dr Valdis Teraudkalns (to serve as assistant curate, St Saviour’s Riga)}

^{Matt Thijs (to serve as assistant curate, St James, Voorschoten)}

^{*Subject to completion of remaining formalities: Professor Dr Martin George (to serve as assistant curate, St George’s, Berlin)}

^{Sacred Order of Priest}

^{By Bishop David on Sunday 27 September in Bergen (precise time and location details to follow):}

^{The Revd Kirk Weiss (to continue to serve as assistant curate, the Anglican Church of Norway}

^{By Bishop Robert on Monday 28 September at 1900 in Luxembourg (precise location details to follow):}

^{The Revd Evelyn Sweerts (to continue to serve as assistant curate, the Anglican Church of Luxembourg} 

Happy Feast! 

Over the next nine days - as we prepare for Pentecost - you'll find resources for prayer on our website.

Surrexit alleluia! Happy Easter! Joyeuses Pâques!

From this point on our services of Morning Prayer, the Eucharist and Evensong will be found on our Youtube channel. Please follow the link.

Easter Day 2020

The services are above.

Holy Saturday 2020

You'll find the services for today above.​

Good Friday 2020

Today you'll find on our Channel Morning and Evening Prayer, the Liturgy of the Day and a Holy Week Address.

Maundy Thursday 2020

Today you'll find on our Channel Morning and Evening Prayer, the Eucharist and a Holy Week Address.

Also, above you'll find a sermon that Natacha Tinteroff was to have preached at The Grosvenor Chapel, but which she has shared with us as well. 

Wednesday in Holy Week

Today you'll find on our Channel Morning and Evening Prayer, the Eucharist and a Holy Week Address.

Also, above you'll find a Meditation and opportunity for discussion by Natacha Tinteroff. 

Tuesday in Holy Week

Today you'll find on our Channel Morning and Evening Prayer, the Eucharist and a Holy Week Address.

Also, above you'll find a Meditation and opportunity for discussion by Natacha Tinteroff. 

Monday in Holy Week

Today you'll find on our Channel Morning and Evening Prayer, the Eucharist and a Holy Week Address.

Also, above you'll find a Meditation and opportunity for discussion by Natacha Tinteroff. 

Sunday 5th April 2020 #Day20

Welcome to Holy Week! Attached are today's sermon (also available on YouTube) and a leaflet which is full of ways for a household to keep Holy Week together.

Sunday 29th March 2020 #Day13

I've started posting a 5 minute reflection on our YouTube channel. You'll find it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TEUGJSU-KE

Sorry about the awful face - I'm not sure why it looks like because the opening shot doesn't have me screwing my face up! The joys of varilux lenses...

Let me know if this is helpful.

You are much in my prayers.

Fr Mark

Thurday 26th March 2020 #Day10

So today started early with a visit from the team that looks after our sewerage system. They were concerned that no one use the loos whilst they were working on site... I was able to reassure them!

Morning Prayer and the midday Eucharist are posted on our YouTube Channel - you can follow along here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRvzIVvG1FeHoR7C_NpDaQ?view_as=subscriber

and today, alongside the phone calls I'm working on an email to the Chaplaincy.... watch your inbox. 

You are all much in my prayers.

Fr Mark

Thursday 19th March 2020 #Day2

Blogging is something I've always avoided. In part because there's such a big difference in the effort I need to add to ensure that my writing is coherent and helpful. And I’m very conscious that I have a sarcastic sense of humour that doesn’t transfer to text at all! The Apostle James was clear about mere words (James 1.26) 'If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.'

But, needs must in the Covid-19 crisis and I’m going to be posting regularly to offer you material for prayer or thought or simply diversion.

Worship takes place daily in St George’s, even if it’s currently closed to worshippers. This Sunday – for the first time - we’ll have the opportunity to worship together at 10h30. The service sheet can be found on the website in the normal place. There obviously isn’t any music and you might prefer to join many of the excellent broadcasts from cathedrals or clergy with greater IT skills than your Chaplain!

1000    Archbishop Justin Welby

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfaMdu8uNo

1115    Washington National Cathedral

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClf3eF-DScY5hn4YbTOEdcg

Facebook is not everyone’s cup of tea but, during the current quarantine, consider signing up to keep in touch with the Chaplaincy Facebook page.