Commemorating Nicholas Ferrar : helping preserve Little Gidding : remembering T S Eliot
The 2015 Pilgrimage is on Saturday 30 May and the leader will be the Rt Revd Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, now Lord Williams of Oystermouth and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. For more information, follow the link.
The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on the Saturday closest to his feast day, Saturday 6 December 2014, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am. The Revd Paul Skirrow, honorary assistant warden at Ferrar House, Little Gidding, will preside and the Revd George Westhaver, Principal of Pusey House, Oxford, will give the address. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch.
A selection of pictures from the 2014 Eliot Festival at Little Gidding.
The weather failed to dampen a great day on Saturday at this year’s Little Gidding Pilgrimage. We are delighted to be able to share the addresses or sermons preached by Pilgrimage leader Malcolm Guite at the two main services at Leighton Bromswold in the morning and Little Gidding in the afternoon.
This year’s Eliot Festival at Little Gidding is on the weekend of Saturday 5 July and Sunday 6 July. Put the date in your calendar and diary now! Tickets are on sale very soon.
We are pleased to announce that the Ninth Annual T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding will take place on Saturday 5 July and Sunday 6 July 2014. The Festival is a major literary celebration of the life and work of Nobel
This year’s Little Gidding Pilgrimage will take place on Saturday 24 May, and will be led by the Revd Malcolm Guite, Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and priest at St Edward’s Church Cambridge. For more information, follow the link.
Stephen Conway, the Bishop of Ely and President of the Friends of Little Gidding, led the annual celebration and commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar Day at Little Gidding on Saturday 7 December 2013. After the service he addressed those gathered, linking the life and example of Nicholas and his family with the recently-adopted Ely diocesan vision statement.
The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on the Saturday closest to his feast day, Saturday 7 December 2013, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am. The Bishop of Ely, Stephen Conway, President of the Friends of Little Gidding, will preside and give the address. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch.
In recent years we have commemorated the ordination of Nicholas Ferrar as a deacon on Trinity Sunday, 4 June 1626. This year we shall again join with Nicholas’s old college, Clare College, Cambridge, to celebrate this event with a service of Choral Evensong, followed by dinner in the college Hall, on the evening of Sunday 9 June.