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.
Ninth Annual T S Eliot Festival 5 and 6 July 2014
T S Eliot Festival : Little Gidding : 5 and 6 July 2014
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
Little Gidding Pilgrimage 2014
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.
Bishop Stephen Conway on Nicholas Ferrar Day at Little Gidding
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.
Nicholas Ferrar Day and the AGM of the Friends 2013
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.
Commemorating Nicholas Ferrar at Clare College
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.
Eighth Annual T S Eliot Festival 6 and 7 July 2013
This year’s Eliot Festival at Little Gidding is on the weekend of Saturday 6 July and Sunday 7 July. Put the date in your calendar and diary now! Tickets are on sale very soon.
Little Gidding Pilgrimage 2013
This year’s Little Gidding Pilgrimage will take place on Saturday 13 July, and will be led by the Revd Alan Hargrave, Canon Missioner at Ely Cathedral. For more information, follow the link.
Nicholas Ferrar Day and the AGM of the Friends 2012
The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on the Saturday closest to his feast day, Saturday 1 December 2012, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am, and an address by the new Dean of Ely, the Very Revd Mark Bonney. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch. For more information, follow the link.
Canon Vernon White: Sermon at Clare College
On Trinity Sunday 1626 Nicholas Ferrar was ordained Deacon in Westminster Abbey. On Trinity Sunday 2012, the Revd Vernon White, Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey, and an old member of Clare College Cambridge (Nicholas Ferrar’s own college) preached at a service at Clare, attended by many members of the Friends. To read the sermon, follow the link.