News from Holy Trinity Twice a year, we have a Vide-Grenier, a Table Top Sale. The first of 2019 is on Saturday, May 11, from 10 am until 4 pm. Please come to support it and encourage your friends to do so, as well. If you still have things you […]
Easter III, May 5
Each of the four Gospels ends differently. Each describes the Crucifixion, but Marks’ Gospel ends abruptly with the discovery of the empty tomb. Luke’s ends with the story of two men walking along the road to the village of Emmaus. John’s ends with a meal, where Jesus shares fish with […]
A-prayer-atif
We had the first A-prayer-atif, Apéritif of the year last Friday, April 26. Since it was a wet and windy day until mid-afternoon, I was pessimistic about how many would attend. Wonderfully, there were sixteen. There were familiar faces and new ones. We enjoyed our time together against the backdrop of a […]
Easter 2019
Earlier in Holy Week, I went to All Saints’, the Anglican church in Rome, for the service of Renewal of Ordination Vows and the Blessing of the Oils (blessed by the bishop, these are used at baptism, confirmation and with the sick). Since then we have had the observance of […]
New Cross for St Hugh’s
As part of the external renovation of St Hugh’s, a new Cross was installed earlier this week.
St Patrick’s Day weekend
Members of Holy Trinity and St Hugh’s were at Laghet last weekend for a retreat led by Canon Mary Haddad from the American Cathedral in Paris. We are very grateful to Mary; she was accompanied by three members of the Cathedral congregation. For film night last Wednesday, we watched Milk, a 2008 American biographical […]
Brexit
The French government has been making contingency plans and an important announcement about these was made in January. I am sure that many of us have been following news reports in English and French about what might happen if the UK were to leave the EU without a deal (no-deal) […]
Friday, February 15
I have posted an update about Brexit. An excellent brunch was had last Sunday after the Eucharist. Fr Peter and Jean-Marie had to return to Nice for Holy Trinity’s Eucharist but the bacon buttie on rye bread offered to Fr Peter before the service was delicious. Take a look at […]
Clergy Retreat at Palazzola
CI went on retreat this week to Palazzola, near Rome. It is a former Franciscan monastery acquired by the Venerable English College in Rome almost a century ago. Their seminarians use it for part of the year, when the heat of Rome is at its height. Palazzola is sited above a […]
Epiphany III, January 27
Ecumenical services have been held at churches of the different denominations during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18 – 25 every year). In Vence, there was a celebration at the Cathedral last Sunday, at which we were represented by Claire Ery, church warden at St Hugh’s. The […]