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School Leavers

This version of the Lord’s Prayer was used across the diocese at special services for school leavers recently.

It was written by the children of Green Oak, Church of England Primary School, Godalming, Surrey.

Our Father in heaven you are awesome!

Show who you are and how you want us to be.

Make earth more like heaven.

Please give us what we need to keep going each day.

Help us to know when we are wrong and clean us up on the inside.

Help us to let other people off and move on.

You’re in charge!

You are strong and powerful and always there.

Forever.

Amazing!

The Autumnal Equinox

is the day when night and day are nearly the same length and the Sun crosses over the Earth's equator on its way south, marking the beginning of autumn.

The Autumnal Equinox is Saturday, September 22, 2012 in the northern hemisphere this year.

An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the centre of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator. The term equinox can also be used in a broader sense, meaning the date when such a passage happens. The name "equinox" is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because around the equinox, the night and day have approximately equal length.

 The History of a Hymn.

LEAD US HEAVENLY FATHER LEAD US.

New housing estates and tower blocks have changed the East End that James Edmeston knew. Many of the buildings which he, as an architect and surveyor, designed are no longer there. However, the parish church of St. Barnabas still stands in Homerton High Street. Edmeston was churchwarden there for many years.

This hymn, among 2,000 others he wrote, has outlived any of his environmental achievements and is now firmly established as a favourite choice at wedding services.

Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us

O’er the world’s tempestuous sea;

Guard us, guide us, keep us feed us,

For we have no help but thee;

Yet possessing every blessing

If our God our Father be.

James Edmeston(1791-1867)

Now there’s a thought…….