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St Hilda’s, Crofton Park

A wonderful welcome, and a sermon so meaty it could have been turned into a Lent course

London, England

St Andrew’s Reformed Episcopal, Glendale

Our Mystery Worshipper might as well have been invisible at the end of the service

St Andrew’s Cathedral, Prince Rupert

Where canned music controlled by the bishop’s wristwatch provides the hymn music

British Columbia, Canada

King of Kings, Oceanside

Celebrating Pentecost with balloons, two sermons, a xylophone, and cinnamon crumb cake

California, USA

St Nicholas of Myra, Brighton

Ascension Day service with a beautifully constructed sermon and a eucharist of quiet intimacy

East Sussex, England

Christ Church Lutheran, San Francisco

A well-organized service, planned with care and thoughtfulness, with lively, festive hymns

California, USA

Funeral of Brian Mulroney, Notre Dame, Montreal

Beautiful funeral mass, with bilingual homily, in honour of the 1980-90s prime minister

Holy Family, Jerome

Heavenly to be in this historic, mining-town church, but no welcome whatsoever from the regulars

St Jude, Wexford, Toronto

Choral evensong celebrating an Anglican order of nuns is overpowered by a blasting organ

Ontario, Canada

St Mary and St Martha, Tornonto

St Mary and St Martha, Toronto

A friendly welcome, plus a reminder that God knows exactly when we will die – to the minute

Ontario, Canada

St John the Evangelist, Cairns City

Relaxed worship and a barefoot reading in a church that knows how to respond well in a crisis

Queensland, Australia

Holy Trinity, Sloane Square

Rose-coloured vestments, a fine sermon, and a crying baby on Mothering Sunday in Chelsea

Chelsea, London, England

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