The Rector’s Weekly Messages

In Easter Week, a number of parishioners will join other pilgrims from the Living Church Foundation to the Holy Land.

Holy Week is almost here! As I said in my sermon last Sunday, I encourage you all to keep as full a Holy Week as possible.

The Bach St. Matthew Passion was a triumph! It was extraordinarily moving, and especially so because of all the many soloists who had their parts to play.

Please do pick up your handy Holy Week postcard from the Church that has details of all the Holy Week services for this year.

The situation in Ukraine seems ever more dire with civilians clearly being targeted.

The scenes on our television screens, and in social media, of the war in Ukraine are heart-wrenching. The targeting of civilians, including children and hospitals, is horrifying.

Lent is an old English word for Spring and, in this part of the world, the time leading up to Easter coincides with the change in the seasons and plants bursting forth from the ground. 

We have five places left for our Eastertide pilgrimage. There is still time to book your place and join us with The Bishop of Tennessee, and Dr. Christopher Wells, as we open up the scriptures in the very places that they refer to.

What a joy it was last Sunday to see children and families gathering in-person and via zoom using the Gabriel 2 camera system in the Sunday School Room.

It was a joy to install three new choristers last Sunday and to welcome their families to church to participate in their proud moment.