The Parish of Sutton with Seaford

Pastoral Letter: 5th May 2025

Dear Brothers and Sisters Doesn’t time fly? Easter week has rushed by and is receding into the past. There was much going on and no time to think about, consider, reflect on the Easter week. Yet we are in the space between Easter and Ascension, maybe it is time to stop and reflect on the […]

Pastoral Letter: 7th April 2025

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, This is an appropriate greeting at any time, a few weeks ago we celebrated Mothering Sunday on the fourth Sunday of Lent. This is because Mothering Sunday has its origins in the Middle Ages and was a day of honouring mother churches. This allowed those who lived away, often […]

Pastoral Letter: 17th March 2025

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Dearly Beloved   How is your Lent going? Traditionally this is the season of purposefully growing closer to God through Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving.   Prayer: It seems obvious that praying more should bring you closer to God. So go to it. Set aside time for silent listening prayer. Use your Christmas Card list of friends […]

Pastoral Letter: 3rd March 2025

Dearly Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Ash Wednesday approaches this week with services at St Leonard’s at 11am and 7pm. The earthy reminder from ashes that we are mortal and will one day return to dust and that we are sinful and in need of a saviour. On Ash Wednesday, we move into Lent, a […]

Pastoral Letter: 17th February 2025

Dearly Beloved Welcome to Ordinary Time. Between Candlemas and Lent (Ash Wednesday will be 5th March), there are a few Sundays in which we wear green and they are known as Ordinary Time. I like Ordinary Time. Yes, I enjoy the festivals and the fasts and the seasons with special focus, but the ordinary times […]

Pastoral Letter: 30th December 2024

Dearly Beloved Happy New Year It might be that you’re looking into this next year with some fear and trepidation. So remember the poem of Minnie Louise Haskins, may it become a prayer for you: And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I […]

PCC Minutes

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You can now read the draft minutes of recent PCC meetings here.

A second test

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