From the Parish Priest
Dear friends,
Easter is early this year!! When Easter Sunday is in March it coincides with Clock Change Sunday, so be aware if you want to turn up on time!!!!! The run up to Easter is the most special time of the year for Christians. It is the time when we retell the wonderful story of God’s saving love in Jesus Christ and are invited and encouraged to take time out of our, sometimes frantic, lives to contemplate the sacrifice that Jesus made for us all.
The timetable for services this Holy Week is published separately in this volume, and as always, I encourage you to come and join in our commemorations and celebrations of this great season and festival.
As I write this our churches are planning their Annual Meetings. These are important occasions, as they reflect on the activity and vibrancy of our worshipping communities. The Church, as I have said and written often, is not a building but a community of people, and without that worshipping ommunity our church’s are just shells. If you would like to help build up the real church, that is the community of people, and could support us in our mission and ministry, then you are most welcome to come to our Annual Meetings and join in!
Meetings, however mundane are still about the Joy of the resurrection, and the new life that God gives us in and through Jesus Christ! May that Easter Joy fill all our lives.
With love and prayers,
Philip