Hoo St Werburgh Parish Church

30/05/2026

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Join us for our Summer Fair ☀️

If you'd like a stall, please email [email protected] 😀

17/05/2026

We recently looked at in church what unity looks like in practice and how to achieve it. In a time when there seems to be so much division, we hope it will be helpful to share the talk here.
Any feedback would be welcome.

12/05/2026

Join us for our Summer Fair ☀️

If you'd like a stall, please email [email protected] 😀

03/05/2026

We had a joyful time time in our Worship For All service this, reflecting on church being "one body, many parts". The congregation of many different ages and backgrounds was a living example of both unity and diversity, and we had a moving activity sharing our different prayers together on the cross 🙏 ✝️ 💖

01/05/2026

The timeless beauty of St Werburgh's on May Day five years ago and today 💖

25/04/2026

It was wonderful to have lots of different visitors to Open Door coffee morning today, including the Peninsula Bell Ringers and the Hoo Litter Pickers.

21/04/2026

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II, and giving thanks for a life of service following the example of Jesus with Hoo and Chattenden Parish Council.

18/04/2026

This coming Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II. The parish council are organising an act of commemoration at Midday in the village square with Councillors and an address by the Vicar. Everyone is very welcome.

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17/04/2026

Very wise words from a wonderful poet and theologian. There is hugely important truth in them.

There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul. In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows. Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way. Real growth is experienced when you draw back from that one window, turn, and walk around the inner tower of the soul and see all the different windows that await your gaze. Through these different windows, you can see new vistas of possibility, presence, and creativity. Complacency, habit, and blindness often prevent you from feeling your life. So much depends on the frame of vision -- the window through which you look.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://www.johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill