I wonder how many of you remember the Toronto Blessing. I used to show a video documentary about it when I was teaching. It fascinated teenagers to see apparently normal people at a church service laughing, falling over, shaking and roaring like a lion – rather different from worship in […]
Easter IV
Thomas Jefferson visited Nice and this region in 1787. You can read that he had a carriage and needed to change horses every ten miles. He bought oranges in Nice and visited the ‘King’s Garden’ here, sampled the wines of Bellet and had some shipped to the United States. He […]
Low Sunday
I worked at Harrow School as Chaplain and Head of Religious Studies for a dozen years. This period coincided with the early years of my parents’ retirement and I took advantage of the long school vacations to take them to France for holidays. I remember these times fondly. Odd incidents […]
Easter Day
Do you remember whom you first heard stories from? I remember my father talking about his experiences in WWII in the RAF. He visited – if that is quite the word – Italy, South Africa, Iraq, Palestine. The list could go on. My mother had different memories, being in a […]
Palm Sunday and Holy Week
Sunday, April 9, Palm Sunday, Sung Eucharist at 9 a.m. Please stay for refreshments after the service. If the weather is fine, these will be in the garden. Confé-Concert directed by Matthieu Peyregne at 4 p.m. at Holy Trinity Nice: Grands motets funéraires pour Louis XIV; Lully: De Profundis, Miserere, Dies Irae Maundy […]
Lent V, Passion Sunday
Memorial Service I went to the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Melinda Jane McCulloch Whalon, the wife of Bishop Pierre, on Wednesday. Bishop Pierre and Melinda visited Holy Trinity and St Hugh Vence last October and I know that my representing both communities at the service was very […]
Epiphany Bulletin 2017
Epiphany Sunday, January 8, Sung Eucharist at 9 a.m. Wednesday, January 11, Eucharist at 10.30 a.m. at Holy Trinity. Monday, January 23, Ecumenical Service in the Chapiteau du Cirque at 7 p.m., Espace Fontvieille, Monaco Wednesday, January 25, Ecumenical Service of Evensong at 6.30 p.m. at Holy Trinity. For the full […]
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The full programme of ecumenical services: Programme semaine de l’unité Chrétienne 2017
Bishop Pierre’s visit
Last Sunday Bishop Pierre Whalon, the Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe was our celebrant and preacher at St Hugh’s Vence and Holy Trinity Nice. It was good to welcome him and his wife. The connection with American Anglicans, which he represents, is a long […]
A week after the attack
Only a week has passed since the Nice attack. It will take a time for ordinary Niçois to absorb what happened and to come to terms with it. For those who lost family members or who watch by the bedsides of the injured, life may never be the same again. […]