Sunday 31st May 2020
Dear Friends
We are writing this letter before we know what the
next stage of easing our lockdown is.
Perhaps there will have been good news for the churches opening a little
more – we live in hope….
Today is the feast of Pentecost – where we remember
the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples in the dramatic form of wind and
fire. We have all experienced events in
our lives which have been life-forming and life-changing, and often we don’t
realise the impact until after the event.
Perhaps the disciples too didn’t really understand what was happening to
them on that first Pentecost, but the effect would change their lives
completely and for ever.
So today, let us think back to the times and events
in our lives where God, in the form of the Holy Spirit, has been at work. They
probably weren’t as dramatic as the coming of the Spirit to the disciples, but
if we have been paying attention then these times will have changed our lives,
even in small ways.
Let us pray for the Holy Spirit to be at work again
in our lives and that of others, and anywhere where people have opened their
hearts and minds to new possibilities and new ways of living.
Many people have written and spoken about the fact
that we cannot go back to way society was before this pandemic. We have a job to do to make sure that the
Holy Spirit’s work of love, compassion and grace is carried on through us,
through the Church and through our communities.
Let us take up the Spirit’s work of kingdom building wherever and
whenever we can in the coming months and years.
News of Katharine
We need to tell you that Katharine will now be
licensed to her new Benefice of Cam Vale on Tuesday 16th June. This will be done online, and she will be
licensed as Priest-in-Charge. Her
licensing as Rector will not happen until later this year when we hope that
many of us will be able to attend.
Katharine will then be moving into her new home in
Queen Camel on 25th June to take up her post there. Sunday 14th June will be her last
Sunday with us. She will be writing to
you all before she leaves. She is
obviously very disappointed, as we are sure you are, that she is not going to
be able to have a proper ‘send-off’.
However, once we are back to ‘normal’ she will come back, and we can
have a proper thank you and farewell party for her.
Please pray for Katharine as she begins this new
and exciting phase of her ministry, although she is beginning in less than
ideal circumstances and we pray that she will find strength and encouragement
in her own faith and calling as well as in the faith of others.
We cannot be together to sign joint cards for
Katharine but if you would like to send her something then her address is:
83 Brutton Way
Chard TA20 2HB
Love and blessings
Ann, Georgina and Katherine
Ann 01460
351521
Georgina
01460 66159
Katharine
01460 261188
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