Carol Sing-along

A last minute idea for those who have been missing carol singing…

You may remember that on VE Day some of us stood in our front gardens and sung together. This Christmas Eve, there is a national movement to ring bells at 6pm. If you are planning to join in with this, you might also like to follow this by joining with your neighbours and the people in your street (from your own drives/gardens) in a few Christmas songs, the songsheet can be downloaded here: christmas_eve_songsheet

Carol Service from St Mary’s Roecliffe

Our Lessons and Carols service for this year has been recorded from St Mary’s Roecliffe and is available for you to watch here, at any point at which you would like to feel Christmassy!

With thanks to all those involved.

 

 

Carol Service for Advent Sunday

Here is your Sunday Service, which this week is a carol service for Advent Sunday with music and readings as we move from darkness to light.

Grateful thanks to our singers from the united parish who recorded the service with me, and to the readers from each Church who were involved.

With every blessing and warmest wishes to you all this Adventide,

Karen

 

 

Remembrance

An Act of Remembrance, videoed mainly at St James’s Church, Boroughbridge but also including shots of the war memorials at Boroughbridge and Lower Dunsforth. This video is primarily for people remembering at home on Sunday, 8th November, or Wednesday 11th November 2020 – hence its timed release.

Featuring a short introduction, the video features the poems: ‘In Flanders Fields’ and ‘The Victory Emblem’ (‘We shall keep the Faith’), Lawrence Binyon’s words: ‘They shall grow not old…’,  and the Kohima Epitaph, while the focal point is the observance of the Two Minutes’ Silence.  The video is presented by Paul Farrelly and John Francis Moss.

The Two Minutes’ Silence starts 7 mins 8 secs into the video, so it needs starting at 10.52 and 52 secs if you would like the timings to be accurate.

If you’d like some music, you can listen to Jane singing ‘The War is Over’: