Author Archives: Revd Alex Pease

Remembrance Sunday 2020 – Zoom Details and Service Sheet

Dear Neighbours, We are going to be doing Remembrance Sunday rather differently this year. In Avington Itchen Abbas and Martyr Worthy there will be an Act of Remembrance at 1030.  This will be led by our Licensed Lay Minister Gerry … Continue reading

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A month of prayer and fasting in the Itchen Valley about the COVID-19 crisis

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have written to all clergy in the context of the new one month lockdown.  They have said to us: ‘Bearing in mind our primary vocation as the Church of Jesus Christ to pray and … Continue reading

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Forgiveness by Revd Alex Pease

This article first appeared in Itchen Valley News November 2020 Every November we mark two events which cause us to think back – Remembrance Sunday and All Souls Day.  On Remembrance Sunday we stand (doubtless socially distanced this year) at … Continue reading

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Itchen Valley Parish Zoom Account

I was in full flood with a young couple on the advantages of marriage yesterday when my zoom meeting disappeared taken over by another Valley meeting! So that we can avoid clashes in the future, could I possibly ask you … Continue reading

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Parish Communion Colossians 3: 12-14 ‘Cowdown-gate and how we stop the Itchen Valley becoming toxic

Today’s service was both in person and on zoom.  The reading was taken from St Paul’s letter to the Colossians which was one of the Lectionary readings for the day and is as follows. “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy … Continue reading

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Valley Worship Sunday 18th October 2020

32 of us joined our service on zoom this morning.   Please see the video of the service above. John Bouldin was our zoom jockey, David Anderson was interviewed in Every Day lives and Sonia Cragg read the Bible reading. … Continue reading

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Matthew 22:1-14 by LLM Gerry Stacey

At our service of Parish Communion today Gerry Stacey preached on the Parable of the Wedding Banquet as follows: Last time I preached you may remember it was about the man who asked his two sons to go and work … Continue reading

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Rochienne Pearce 1948-2020

  30 of us met on Wednesday 30th September 2020 at St Mary’s Easton to say goodbye to Rochienne Pearce, a long time resident of Fulling Mill, Easton.  The processional music was Prelude de la porte heroique du ciel by … Continue reading

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APCM 2020 – The Recording

45 members of the Itchen Valley Parish community of worshippers met together on zoom on Wednesday 30th September 2020 for our APCM.  I was leading with the Treasurer (Rolls Coleman) and the Secretary (Verity Coleman) and the Parish Administrator (Beccy … Continue reading

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Charlie Bullen 1941-2020

We held two services for Charlie Bullen of Avington Park on Tuesday 29th September 2020.  The first was the Cremation Service at Basingstoke Crematorium and then the Thanksgiving Service at St. Mary’s Avington.  There were about 30 of us at … Continue reading

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Winchester Villages Trust

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Parish Communion Sunday 27th September 2020 – The Recording

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The Two Sons and the Vineyard Matthew 21: 28-32 by Revd. Alex Pease

Two sons. Both are asked by their Father to go to work in the vineyard. One refuses. Quite rudely, actually. The other agrees to go. But the one who refuses subsequently ‘changes his mind’ and does what his father asked, whereas the one who said he would go doesn’t. We are all very … Continue reading

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What resources do you have to get through the winter? by Revd Alex Pease

This article first appeared in Itchen Valley News October 2020 What resources do you have to get through the Winter? We can all imagine how tough this Autumn and Winter are going to be.  Finally we have all appreciated that … Continue reading

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Jim Gillo Glasspool 1933-2020

30 of us, appropriately socially distanced and wearing masks (and 22 on zoom) came together on Wednesday 23rd September to say goodbye to long term resident of Itchen Abbas Jim Glasspool.  The zoom recording of the service follows.  Unfortunately some … Continue reading

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