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rout again as it is very close to the house i agreed to his suggestion new supply of firewood ricky yates one benefit of having all this work done has been the creation of a considerable new supply of firewood for next winter which michal has kindly cut up and stacked in my woodshed and i am hopeful that i will experience another benefit this coming autumn with a much smaller leaf fall to rake and clear up walnut tree 13th june 2026 ricky yates poplar tree 13th june 2026 ricky yates here are two photographs taken yesterday showing that both trees are still flourishing english language ministry at the dresden frauenkirche the coventry cross of nails nagelkreuz on the frauenkirche altar ricky yates as i have explained previously one of the two main reasons that the church of england in germany was offered a monthly evening english language anglican service at the frauenkirche twenty years ago is the strong links the frauenkirche has with coventry cathedral through the community of the cross of nails being born in coventry and living and being educated in the city until the age of eighteen makes my english language ministry at the frauenkirche very significant to me with john witcombe dean of coventry cathedral ricky yates over the past couple of years i have got to know john witcombe the dean of coventry cathedral through his visit to dresden in february 2025 and by attending worship at coventry cathedral when i ve been in the uk with bishop sophie jelley at the frauenkirche 26th october 2025 ricky yates more recently the new bishop of coventry sophie jelley a fellow graduate of wycliffe hall oxford made her first visit to dresden on sunday 26 th october 2025 and was the preacher at the festgottesdienst celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the consecration of the rebuilt frauenkirche i attended the service and got to meet her afterwards over easter 2026 i made my first uk visit of this year and worshiped at coventry cathedral on easter sunday morning dean john was the celebrant and sophie the preacher at the eucharist and she recognised me in the congregation and greeted me warmly at the peace in her sermon sophie spoke of her first visit to the frauenkirche and of the shared ministry of reconciliation it has been a real privilege to be a part of the significant relationship between the cathedral of my home city and the frauenkirche where i minister my new pto having updated my safeguarding training and once more proved my lack of criminality in the czech republic earlier this year my bishop s permission to officiate pto was renewed for a further three years meaning i can continue to lead worship and preach in my active retirement i m very much looking forward to my next service at the frauenkirche on the evening of sunday 21 st june when we will be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of english language anglican services the first ever service being held on sunday 18 th june 2006 the view from the beatenberg conference centre ricky yates i remain very grateful to the intercontinental church society for their continued prayer support of my dresden ministry at the end of april i was again able to attend their annual chaplain s conference held in beatenberg near interlaken in switzerland a lovely mixture of good teaching fellowship and relaxation and you can t really beat the view from my bedroom window yours truly at the rhine falls rheinfall ricky yates on my way back from the conference i broke my journey staying overnight in bülach near zürich meeting up with my friend benedikt who i first met in bavaria in 2004 when he was only sixteen years old on the following morning i drove us to neuhausen am rheinfall on the swiss german border and visited the impressive rheinfall rhine falls where benedikt kindly took this photograph of me he then got the train back to bülach and i drove on to stará oleška postscript there are several more things i could write about particularly from my uk visit where i met up with both of my sisters as well as my two adult children and four grandchildren watched coventry city beat derby county 3 2 at the cbs arena and at great expense obtained a new british passport in peterborough but i want to get this published before it becomes six months since my last post author ricky posted on june 14 2026 june 23 2026 categories north bohemia tags coventry cathedral driving frauenkirche garden healthcare house renovation intercontinental church society 6 comments on the first five months of 2026 christmas 2025 in zermatt st peter s church zermatt ricky yates as i explained in my previous post this year i volunteered to go to zermatt to be the chaplain of st peter s church over the christmas period covering the first two weeks of the winter season after my first few days of leisure my period of duty began on tuesday 16 th december my first duty each day was to open the church by 09 30 each morning turning on the lights in the sanctuary and then locking it again in the evening no earlier than 20 00 this allows people to visit and use the church for private prayer judging by the number of entries and positive comments in the visitors book this is very much appreciated my other initial task was to update noticeboards removing the notices saying that the church was currently closed and instead posting ones giving details of all my services together with a mug shot of the current chaplain noticeboard updated ricky yates i was unsure what to expect on the two sundays either side of christmas at this time of year it is very easy to lose track of what day of the week it actually is and therefore fail to realise that it is sunday so i was quite pleased to have a congregation of ten for holy communion on the morning of sunday 21 st december the fourth sunday of advent among them was a francophone swiss couple celebrating their wedding anniversary who were very appreciative of the service and were responsible for this photograph of me i also believe they were responsible for a rather large contribution to the collection at the end of the service standing by the altar of st peter s church zermatt sunday 21st december 2025 ricky yates in the evening there were just three of us gathered to say evening prayer together i knew from my experience in december 2024 that the 17 00 service of lessons carols on christmas eve would be popular i wasn t the only one several people arrived more than half an hour before the service was due to begin just to be sure they had a seat by just before 17 00 every pew was fully occupied about twenty loose folding chairs were pressed into service and at least twenty people were standing at the back finally to get everyone in at least a dozen others sat on the carpet in the central aisle in total there must have been in excess of two hundred people present wanting to sing christmas carols and hear again old testament prophesies of the coming messiah the annunciation the birth of jesus the visits of the shepherds and wise men and concluding with st john s wonderful explanation of the mystery of the incarnation i made that final reading the basis of my sermon and pointed out that they had just sung the truths of that passage in the previous carol veiled in flesh the godhead see hail the incarnate deity pleased as man with man to dwell jesus our emmanuel at the end of the service because of the number of people packed into church it took me quite some time to be able to reach the church doors shake hands with everyone as they left at 19 30 i had a repeat service of lessons carols this time with a congregation of sixty five this was the only congregation that was smaller than those i experienced in 2024 down by twenty all the others were considerably greater with sixty attending the midnight eucharist and thirty one at an informal act of morning worship on christmas day several people who attended the various services said that they remembered me from last year and were very pleased to see me once again in 2025 a few also expressed the hope that i would come again in 2026 i did also have a number of enquiries as to whether there was a toilet in the church or a reesst room being a typical nineteenth century church there isn t one thing that did surprise me was a couple of people arriving thinking that services would be in german this despite the church being known locally as the english church and the noticeboard and website stating clearly that services are in english as i had to explain it will be anglikanischer gottesdienst in englischer sprache i have several good memories of people that i met during my time as chaplain the first arrival for the midnight eucharist on christmas eve was caroline the rep in zermatt for the ski club of great britain whilst not a regular church goer she enjoyed the service and came up to the altar rail for a blessing during the administration of communion she invited me to come to ski club s social hour held each evening between 18 00 19 00 in the bar of the pollock hotel so i went the following evening where caroline and several others made me very welcome it was coming out of the lift in the apartment block where the chaplain s apartment is located on my way to the pollock bar that i met victoria and her twelve year old son henry they together with richard victoria s husband henry s father had attended both the 19 30 service of lessons carols and my christmas day morning service their rented apartment was literally a few steps from the chaplain s apartment victoria insisted that i should join them for a glass of bubbly upon my return so i did not only was i given a glass of bubbly i was treated to a christmas day evening dinner including this delightful dessert dessert ricky yates whilst richard had been to zermatt several years ago with his elder daughter he was unaware of st peter s church existence this christmas they all were delighted to have discovered it and to be able to attend worship richard also got me involved in an interesting conversation about evangelism and expressed his appreciation of my preaching on the evening of sunday 28 th december there was a congregation of six for evening prayer one of them was a lady called edith who is a villager someone who lives permanently in zermatt she is one of only two locals who attend services on a regular basis she expressed her appreciation of the service and i was delighted to have made a connection to her for three of my four christmas services in december 2024 i was blessed with the presence of christine from north yorkshire who played the organ for me so i never got to understand how to play hymn tunes through the church speaker system and led one service of lessons carols singing unaccompanied or a cappella this year i had no organist for any of my services but having arrived early and now knowing how other things such as heating and lighting work i had time to get to understand the system and whilst there was frequently a pregnant pause between announcing the hymn or carol and the music starting it worked the one thing that was noticeably different to my experience at christmas 2024 was the lack of snow in december 2024 i arrived in a heavy snow storm that lasted for a couple of days with snow everywhere in the town this year whilst it had clearly snowed previously in zermatt itself as there was still some snow on roofs and in gardens no snow fell at all during my eighteen day sojourn quite a surprise the matterhorn ricky yates author ricky posted on january 4 2026 january 4 2026 categories north bohemia tags christmas diocese in europe intercontinental church society switzerland zermatt 4 comments on christmas 2025 in zermatt health update and heading again to zermatt for christmas a beer with a view ricky yates it is now four months since a little critter got me and over two months since i last wrote a blogpost so i thought it was high time that i posted an update firstly i am very grateful to the many people who have been praying for me sending me their best wishes for a full recovery and wanting to know my current state of health this post is for all of you when i last saw my gp on friday 5 th december and he saw my leg he was pleased with what he saw whilst the upper part of my left calf is still a bit swollen it is vastly improved from three a half months previously so i have finally stopped taking anti inflammatory tablets the other good news is that my inr has finally settled down after being badly disturbed by taking antibiotics on 5 th december it was 2 6 almost perfect as it is meant to be in the range 2 0 3 0 as i said in reply to one of the welcome comments on my last post my planned further hospitalisation on 7 th october to investigate the scabby lump on the bottom of my left leg didn t happen as there wasn t a spare bed for me i am now re booked to see the dermatologist on tuesday 6 th january 2026 in consultation with my gp i will be slightly reducing my intake of warfarin in the week before that appointment and then having my inr checked by my gp the day before the appointment hopefully it will be around 2 00 and will allow an incision to be made without the risk of me severely bleeding st peter s church zermatt ricky yates last december as i wrote in this post i answered a cri de cœur and travelled to zermatt switzerland to provide christmas services at st peter s church known locally as the english church having enjoyed the uplifting but tiring experience some months ago i volunteered to return in december 2025 this time for a full two weeks including sunday 21 st december advent 4 and sunday 28 th december christmas 1 because my two weeks mark the beginning of the winter season the chaplaincy flat has been vacant since the end of the summer season in september therefore i have been able to arrive a few days early acclimatize myself and enjoy the mountains before my chaplaincy duty commences gornergratbahn at riffelberg bahnhof ricky yates therefore i ve had a wonderful journey on the gornergratbahn up to gornergrat with amazing views of the matterhorn snowy italian alps ricky yates italian lunch ricky yates and i ve travelled the matterhorn alpine crossing from switzerland to italy and back with further amazing views and a delightful italian lunch in breuil cervinia christmas services at st peter s church zermatt ricky yates during my two week stint i will be officiating and preaching at eight different services as advertised now on the church noticeboard and on the church website with my two earlier services at the dresden frauenkiche that means ten services in december so much for being retired author ricky posted on december 16 2025 december 16 2025 categories north bohemia tags christmas diocese in europe intercontinental church society snow 5 comments on health update and heading again to zermatt for christmas it s amazing the damage a little critter can do my left leg 20th august 2025 ricky yates between 02 00 and 11 00 on saturday 16 th august 2025 i seriously...