Kirkburn St. Mary, in terms of its normal, cyclical, activities is tied into the events of the ecclesiastical year. Each year the church’s year is fixed around the events, mainly of the New Testament. The events of the normal non-Christian year are enmeshed in the activities of the Church’s early development because the Church so cleverly took over the events of the non-Christian foregoing decades and made them its own. So the average person is tied by custom and practice. Even if this present secular State has tried to disassociate itself from Christian celebrations (what happened to Whitsuntide and Whitsunday under our current somewhat disgusting lawmakers, in what is supposed to be a Christian realm) nevertheless the average person is, in a sense, tied to the church’s year. Changes in name do not at least in today’s generation totally cancel the ancient meanings of the ancient feast days. And so the church’s year, ranging from Advent to Christmas, to Epiphany, to Lent, to Easter, to Ascensiontide, to Whitsuntide and to Triinity, plus the extras of Rogationtide, Lammas and Harvest actually frame the activities of the Church at Kirkburn. Our diaries of 2004 and 2005 give a taste of our activities during ordinary years in the church. These pages will now only reflect extra-special events affecting God’s Church at Kirkburn.
The first of those special events has been a special anniversary for a Bishop. For further events follow the links below:
