Welcome to our parish. You are most welcome to come and share with us.
Welcome to our parish. You are most welcome to come and share with us.
We are delighted that the floor has been levelled and recarpeted. We are very pleased with the result, and hope that you are too!. If you would like to make a donation to help pay for the carpeting (£30 will buy you a square metre of carpet and we need to raise about 120 square metres of carpet!), then please use the Paypal button below.
Our grateful thanks to all those who worked so hard to make it happen: from Tony Warne and Dave Baker our principal workers, to Dan, Leon, Brian and Ernie who helped them along the way; as well as Margaret Poole and the very hardworking team who put the church back together.
The community spirit of this exercise, the vibrancy of faith shown and the dedication of this parish has truely shown God's work in action.
Thanks be to God!
Next Blesséd events:
22nd Feb 2010 at Ripon College, Cuddesdon (Theological College) Theme: God Calling...
13th Mar 2010 at S. Thomas the Apostle, Elson Theme: Mother
See our proposal to the Church's planning authorities here
“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.”
Deuteronomy 7:9
Commemorated on 11 March
Native of Damascus, Syria.Travelled widely in the East and West.Lived several years at Alexandria, Egypt near Saint John the Almoner.Ecclesiastical writer of distinction. Poet and extensive correspondent; some of his writings have survived.Fought the Monothelitism heresy.Patriach of Jerusalem from 634 until his death, but was driven from the city by Saracens.
Died: 639 at Jerusalem of natural causes Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Guide and undertake, O Lord,
in all that lies before us in this meeting.
May the Holy Spirit direct us
in our thinking and our speaking
and give us understanding of your will,
for the furtherance of Christs kingdom
and the glory of your name.
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It's not just about keeping an old building going in the face of adversity. The Parish of St. Thomas the Apostle is a thriving, living focus of community life within Elson and Hardway. Here, a warm welcome awaits you if you join us and share in God's Holy Sacraments and the Good News that he promises to each and every one of us.
The Parish Church has been a visible witness to the love of Christ since 1846, and as Gosport has grown up around and enveloped the small village of Elson, so the parish and its people have adapted and continued to proclaim the Kingdom of God with vigour and with friendly love.
Come and join us in worship and in fellowship and see what the love of Christ can do for you. Be fed at his Holy Table and enriched by his Holy Word, and discover the difference that the living faith can make to you. Whether you are nine, twenty-nine or ninety, St Thomas the Apostle welcomes you and can find a sacred space for you to encounter God.
Our life is lived through the sacramental worship of God; through the mass celebrated during the week and on Sundays, through the daily work of worship in the Daily Office of Morning and Evening Prayer and through encounters with God in alternative and meditative worship. hatever your preference, St Thomas can offer a worship experience for you.
Your parish priest is Fr. Simon Rundell, and he, along with all the people of this parish welcome you to come and join us, enjoy our fellowship and hospitality and share in our joyous worship.
If Anglicans can worship together, no Covenant is required. If Anglicans cannot worship together, no Covenant will suffice. The oldest Anglican provinces outside of England (Scotland, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Wales) will not accept a Covenant which places their several Churches under the juridical authority of foreign prelates. The oldest province (England) is legally barred from so doing. But the irreconcilables (Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Cone) will settle for nothing less that all authority delivered into the hands of the Primates Meeting - and even then, only after half the Anglican Communion are tossed out of the room.
This is why we cannot accept an Anglican Covenant!
taken from Celebrating the Mass.