Category Archives: Letters

I am so excited to be joining you as your new Vicar in May. It’s been a long wait but finally the time has come to make preparations for leaving East Sussex to join you up in Alnwick. I have … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick February 2022 Sunday 9th January 2022 seemed a very long way off when I announced my retirement in early October last year – but it seemed to arrive with great haste! My last Sunday leading worship … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick January 2022 Paul & Jane would like to send a huge ‘thank you’ for the splendid send-off last Sunday. It is difficult to find the right words to express how we feel. The warmth of the … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick December 2021 Dear People of Alnwick, Having a two-month edition of ‘Gateway’ for December and January means that it covers so much activity in church and in the wider world. In the church calendar Advent, Christmas, … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick November 2021 Dear People of Alnwick, My lips curled up into a gentle smile last Sunday morning as the organ played before the service and I heard that lovely melody from Mendelssohn ‘s oratorio ‘Elijah’: ‘O … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick October 2021 Dear People of Alnwick, Have you noticed how the evenings are already getting darker? We’ve not yet put the clocks back and yet dusk is with us by late afternoon. Turning out in the … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick September 2021 Dear People of Alnwick, The front cover of this edition of our magazine shows Mark, Bishop of Berwick, at the wonderful service of blessing for our ten bells on 9th August before they were … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick August 2021 Dear People of Alnwick, I want to begin by thanking many of you for your cards, good wishes and the assurance of prayers during my recent, somewhat unexpected, bout of chickenpox. How I wish … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick July 2021 Dear People of Alnwick, Many of us had hoped that, by the time you were reading this, we would have been released from ‘lockdown’ and things might have been returning to normal — whatever … Continue reading →

St. Michael’s Vicarage, Alnwick June 2021 Dear People of Alnwick, As I write this letter the Prime Minister has just officially informed the nation that we can proceed to the next stage on the roadmap to recovery from the Coronavirus … Continue reading →