In true seasonal style there was no room at the inn during the
Norwich Theatre Royal’s annual carol service at
St Peter Mancroft Church on Christmas Eve with scores of people having to stand at the special service for theatre staff, friends and the cast of this year’s popular pantomime.
The
Revd Canon Peter Nokes, vicar and chaplain to the Norwich Theatre Royal, led the service which was attended by T
he Rt Revd Graham James, Bishop of Norwich, who gave an address and told how he was “captivated” by his first experience of panto, which was also Cinderella, as a seven or eight year old boy at a theatre in Cornwall where he then lived.
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The
Bishop of Norwich used his Christmas sermon to speak of how fear is cast out by hope and love. Preaching to a packed
Norwich Cathedral at the Midnight service, the Rt Revd Graham James spoke of his visit to
Bethlehem in the autumn and how it is a place of fear and insecurity.
Drawing parallels between those in the nativity story and the fears and worries of modern day life he went on to say, “The birth of this child in Bethlehem two thousand years ago wasn’t some simple solution to the world’s problems. But this is God coming to live alongside us, within us, to bring us hope because even when we don’t love one another he never gives up loving us.”
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Hundreds gathered to wish the
Queen well as the
Royal family attended church at
Sandringham in
West Norfolk on December 29, following the thousands that had gathered for the traditional Christmas Day service a few days earlier.
The service, which lasted for around 45 minutes, was led by
The Revd Jonathan Riviere, Rector of Sandringham, with a sermon from The
Rt Revd Graham James, Bishop of Norwich.
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Pictured top is the Rev Canon Peter Nokes outside the Theatre Royal in Norwich.
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