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Advent Sunday and confirmations
Advent is four weeks long and marks the beginning of the Christian year. The first Sunday of Advent is always four Sundays before Christmas, and this year it was on 30 November 2025. ‘Advent’ means ‘coming’. It is a season of expectation and preparation as the Church prepares to celebrate
Video: Christmas Message from the Bishop of Norwich
At the beginning of Advent, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, the Bishop of Norwich, shares his address reflecting on the significance and complexity of joy in times of division. The message was recorded during a visit to St Michael and All Angels, Aylsham, where Bishop Graham met with volunteers for
Diocesan Synod November 2025: Presidential Address
Alan Bennett’s film The Choral has just been playing in the cinemas. Set in 1916 in a Yorkshire mill town, it explores how a local choral society responds when so many of its male members have gone off to fight in the Great War. Conscription, national duty, patriotism are all