St Mary's Wymeswold

News and views from St Mary’s Church, Wymeswold, Leics

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Join out Curate Bob for a day of silence next Saturday. Join as and when throughout the day and stay for as long/short a time as you wish.

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Christ is risen. He is risen indeed Alleluia!

Join us to celebrate Easter at our service of Holy Communion at 11am, followed by tea/coffee and cake. All welcome.

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As we approach Easter in this solemn period of Holy Week you are most welcome to join us for any of the services throughout the Benefice (not forgetting our Easter Café on Saturday morning). Please see details of our services below.

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Crosses to Calvary day 18.

Cast, western Brittany, from the story of St Hubert, to whom the parish church is dedicated.

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Day 17 of crosses to Calvary.

Mount St Bernard’s Abbey gardens, Leicestershire.

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Week Three - Spirit 💜

Watch as Rev Dr Carlton Turner, author of our #WatchAndPray Lent reflections, introduces this week's theme.

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Day 15 of crosses to Calvary.

St. Martial-de-Mirabeau, France.

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An interesting aspect of St Mary de Castro church in Leicester is its two sets of sedilia and its two piscinas.

Pictured here is the sedilia and piscina in the sanctuary.

Sedilia are used as seats for clergy, while the piscina is a small basin for washing communion vessels.

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Day 16 of crosses to Calvary.

Window showing Jeanne Mance, one of a series of exceptional windows on the history of Christianity in Canada. Brouage church, France.

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Day 14 of crosses to Calvary.

A very tall cross from Saint-Thomas-de-Conac, once a small collegiate foundation in the Saintonge region of France.

Perhaps taken outside on Good Friday and planted on a Golgotha?

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Day 12. A cross with many personal associations, many of them now in the quiet earth nearby.

Rood (20C) and screen (19C), St Michael’s church, Creaton, Northants.

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Day 13 of crosses to Calvary.

Saint-Bonnet-sur-Gironde.

On the cliff overlooking the wide Gironde estuary; nothing but the sound of wind in the maize…..

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Day 11 of crosses to Calvary.

Blithfield church, Staffs. A luminous window.

Have a good week, everyone.

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Day 8 of Crosses to Calvary - frontispiece of Le pelerin moral by Bernard du Verger (1615).

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Day 9 of crosses to Calvary.

The deposition of Christ. From the Virgin of Kykkos monastery, Cyprus.

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Day 10 of crosses to Calvary.

Guild chapel of the Holy Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon.

The ghostly resurrection figures are very poignant.

The trumpet shall sound
And the dead shall be raised
And the dead shall be raised Incorruptible.

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Day 7 of Crosses to Calvary.

St Peter’s Church, Wolverhampton.

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#RomanesqueSculpture Volto Santo (Holy Face) wooden crucifix were believed to be made by Nicodemus after the resurrection of Christ. He carved the body before falling asleep, when awaken the face was miraculously complete. Most famous version in Lucca, Italy 🧵

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After Sunday’s break - penitence needs a day off - day 5 of crosses to Calvary with a 15 century alabaster if the Trinity from Willoughby on the Wolds, Notts.