We invite you to join us for the first Grace service of 2012, wherein we will be unpacking different approaches to prayer based on the poem 'Prayer' by George Herbert:

Prayer, the Church's banquet, Angels' age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;
Engine against th' Almighty, sinner's tower,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-days'-world transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
Heaven in ordinary, man well dressed,
The milky way, the bird of Paradise,
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,
The land of spices, something understood.

The above image is of the Earl of Carlisle's 17th century 'ambigu' at Naworth Castle, recreated 2006 by Ivan Day. For more astonishing recreations of historic food by Ivan Day see historicfood.com