Currently, due to Covid-19 restrictions, our parish is running an hour behind the rest of the nation.
Perhaps not a bad thing as looking to the past in times of crisis reminds us of God’s faithfulness then, comfort now and hope for the future
When Jesus asks the sick man ‘Do you want to be made well?’ he asks us and our churches the same question. Only those who know their own need of healing can be used in the healing of others
Jesus takes the disaster of his betrayal by Judas and turns it into the glory of the cross. How can we, faced with our own betrayals and the betrayals of others, turn death into resurrection and hate into love?
When St Thomas makes his annual hesitant visit to our churches we easily quote the lie ‘seeing is believing’. In fact believing can only be based on ‘not seeing’ and choosing to life a life proclaiming ‘My Lord and my God’
The journey to a ‘Trysting Place’ is not for Lent alone. In this final blog find a link to the movie of the book ‘In this House of Brede’ and also details on how to be in contact with a local Religious Commnity.
God has an annoying habit of upturning apple carts and interrupting our lives. No more so than with the epmty tomb of Easter. The challenge we face is to decide if we will let God interfere with our lives.
Of Mice & Marshwiggles – Easter Day – Farewell to the Shadowlands To Read: Setting the Scene: The Last Battle, of all the Chronicles of Narnia, is the one which by Lewis own admission ‘pulls no punches’ in its allegory of the Christian journey. At its end Aslan speaks to all the children who… Continue reading Of Mice & Marshwiggles – Easter Day – Farewell to the Shadowlands
God is a God of love and welcome and we need to set aside the lies about condemnation which our early faith may have taught us
It is only as we offer ourselves as ‘food’ for others that we truly become The Body of Christ
Suffolk Vicar 