- Follow St Chrysostom's Church News and Views on WordPress.com
Useful Links
Top Posts & Pages
- A candle for Winnie, A candle for Keith
- 20 + C + M + B + 17 Bless your home!
- Bless this House: 20 + C + M + B + 12
- About St Chrysostom's Church
- Why I go to Walsingham
- Winnie Johnson's Funeral
- 20 + C + M + B + 14 Blessing of Homes
- Arts and Crafts Angels
- Winnie Johnson RIP
- The Church Travellers Directory
-
Recent Posts
- Advent Angel Angels Angelus Anglican Annunciation Armenia Armenian Ash Wednesday Assumption baptism Benediction Bible Bishop of Manchester Book Reading Carols Catholic Christianity Christmas Church of England Confirmation Donkey Easter Easter Vigil Epiphany Exsultet Faith Food Haiku Holy Week home House blessing Human trafficking Hymn Hymns Joseph Ken Leech Labyrinth Lent LGBT Liturgy Lutheran Magi Manchester Mary Mary's Meals Mass May Mirfield Muslim New Year Nuns Our Lady Pilgrimage posada Prayer Quiz Ramadan Rocamadour Rosary School SCP Shrine Slavery Stations of the Cross St Chrysostom's St Chrysostom's School St John's School Tenebrae Uganda Via Lucis Victoria Park Walsingham War memorial women
Author Archives: stchrysostoms
A candle for Winnie, A candle for Keith
Today, 18th August, is the anniversary of the death in 2012 of Winnie Johnson. Winnie was known throughout England as the mother of Keith Bennett, the child victim of the moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Despite extensive searching … Continue reading
Posted in Anglican, Anglo Catholic, Christianity, Faith, Manchester, Prayer
Tagged Ian Brady, Keith Bennett, Myra Hindley, Winnie Johnson
9 Comments
Why I go to Walsingham
Each year pilgrims from St C’s go on pilgrimage to Walsingham Fr Chris tells us why he goes. Walsingham, in North Norfolk, has been a place of pilgrimage for many hundreds of years. Why pilgrimage and why Walsingham? Walsingham is … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
The Madonna of the Village
The Madonna of the Village appears on this year’s poster for the Feast of the Assumption Mass at St Chrysostom’s. The painting by the Jewish artist Marc Chagall is one of his most striking. During the years of the Jewish … Continue reading
Postcard from the Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette
On the 19th September 1846, in a remote part of the Alps two children, Melanie and Maximin, with Maximin’s little dog, Lulu, climbed a distant valley guiding the cows they were looking after. The children rested after lunch and the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
See the treasures of the Church
One of the most celebrated saints in the history of the Church, St Laurence is honoured on August 10th. His day is, unusually, given a high rank – Feast rather than Memorial – in the Roman Catholic Western calendar. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anglican, Anglo Catholic, Art, Catholic, Saints, St Chrysostoms Church
Tagged Laurence, Saint
Leave a comment
Deities at the Bottom of the Garden
Central Library, Manchester, has a lovely little exhibition at present, Deities at the Bottom of the Garden. The contemporary Sheffield artist Richard Bartle has constructed twelve scaled down garden sheds each with an interior modelled on the worship place of a … Continue reading
Posted in Manchester
Leave a comment
Transfigured on Tabor
Mount Tabor, the Mount of the Transfiguration was the second in our series of Hills of the Bible. Here is a summary of Canon Alma’s sermon at Sunday Mass: Jesus has gone to pray on the mountain, taking with him … Continue reading
Posted in Anglican, Anglo Catholic, Bible reading, Christian, St Chrysostoms Church
Tagged Alma Servant, Hills of the Bible, Tabor, Transfiguration
Leave a comment
