St Stephens
Jan 17, 2021
Thought for the week - 17 January
Old Testament lesson Samuel 3: 1–20. Gospel John 1: 43-end. It is interesting isn’t it, what we ask people when we meet them for the...
Fr Andrew Sage
Jan 9, 2021
Pastoral letter
Dear brothers and sisters, Many of you may have seen that in the light of the very steep rise in infections across Lancashire, all three...
Fr Andrew Sage
Dec 27, 2020
Fr Andrew's Christmas message
Christmas cancelled!? Well clearly some things are. At short notice family arrangements have had to be drastically altered or indeed...
Fr Andrew Sage
Dec 20, 2020
Thought for the week - 20 December 2020
Advent 4. Gospel - Luke 1.26-38 Well, it has happened again. I’m just so lucky! Once again I have been specially pre-selected and...
Fr Andrew Sage
Nov 15, 2020
Thought for the week - 15 November
Dear friends in Christ, I sit to write this article as we continue in November, the Month of the Holy Souls. This inevitably leads to...
Fr Andrew Sage
Sep 27, 2020
Thought for the week - 27 September 2020
When I first moved to ‘The North’ a few things took me by surprise! One was how, in a short visit to a local shop the shopkeeper could,...
Fr Andrew Sage
Sep 11, 2019
Getting the balance right
Dear Friends, A little while ago I was having a discussion about spending money on church buildings. It is a common discussion because it...
Fr Andrew Sage
Aug 26, 2019
The Angel of the Lord Brought Tidings to Mary
I have the picture above as a postcard. A friend sent it to me a few years ago during a visit to Paris. In the painting we see two French...
Fr Andrew Sage
Feb 28, 2019
How will you observe Lent
Dear Friends, As Christians prepare for Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent on 6th March, I hope and pray that each of you will take the...
St Stephens
Jan 27, 2019
Our Anglo-Catholic heritage
The Anglo-Catholic tradition at St. Stephen’s has been there since the earliest days. The article below shows how difficult such a...