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.
27th March 2010 7:00pm
St Thomas Church Hall
Bring your own drinks
Trivia, General knowledge, Special Rounds
Tickets on sale at church or on the door on the night
Next Blesséd events:
13th Mar 2010 at S. Thomas the Apostle, Elson Theme: Mother
28th Mar 2010 at S. Thomas the Apostle, Elson Theme: Holy Week
Come and Join us for the most important week in the life of the Church & in your life...
See our proposal to the Church's planning authorities here
“Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”
2 Peter 1:4
(also known as Rodriguez)
Commemorated on 13 March
A Christian in Moorish Spain, he had a brother who became Moslem and another with no religion. Priest.One day he tried to break up a fight between his brothers; they turned on him and beat him into a coma.The Moslem brother, seeking further revenge, announced to authorities that Roderick had converted to Islam.When Roderick awoke, he was questioned about it, and denied the allegation, claiming allegiance to Christ.The Moslem authorities took this to be apostasy, deciding Roderick was denying his new Moslem faith.He was imprisoned for several months, and then martyred with another Christian whose name has not come down to us.
Born: 9th century southern Spain Died: beheaded in 857
Father, you have entrusted to our care
the children of your Church,
and have charged us to guide and train them
in the way of Christ.
Help us to be faithful to our trust,
both in our teaching and our prayers;
that our boys and girls may grow up
in the knowledge of your love,
to worship and serve you all their days
as members of your family,
to the honour and 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.