ARCHIVE February, 2012
The Rector writes… “ Lent is here! … in our gospel reading today, Jesus is tempted in the desert for 40 days and comes out of that experience proclaiming the Good News of God throughout Galilee. I hope that after our time of Lenten reflection, we, as a parish community, will emerge proclaiming the Good News in […]
February 27, 2012 in Parish Notices by simon
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The Rector writes… “ I am frequently asked why does God allow such pain and suffering to exist in our world and of course I never have an answer to this question. I can only ever say that where there is suffering, God is with us in our pain. St Augustine said that ‘God had […]
February 22, 2012 in Parish Notices by simon
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The Rector writes… “Last week in this Linksheet, it was mentioned that I had met with the Parish Renewal Group tasked with condensing all of the information gleaned from the Parish Survey you had contributed to. On all of your behalf, I would like to thank this small dedicated group for the amazing amount of […]
February 13, 2012 in Parish Notices by simon
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The Rector writes… “This week I have been reading many passages about ‘Hope’. It always seems to work out that way, whatever book I pick up seems to speak about a certain theme and this week the dominating theme was ‘Hope’. Wonderful sentences jumped out at me like ‘Hope has feet and we are still […]
February 6, 2012 in home, Parish Notices by simon
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The Rector writes… “This week I came across a wonderful little paragraph on facebook of all places! It was posted by a congregation of Franciscan Sisters in Oldenburg and it spoke to me. It said “Sometimes I want to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice in the world when he could do […]
February 6, 2012 in home, Parish Notices by simon
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