Posts from March 2025

Dearest friends, It has been a terrific week in both churches as we have had an early taste of Easter Sunday with the celebration of school Easter services. At St. Luke’s we welcomed Haytor View Primary School – who sang us songs, read scripture, and explained why Easter was so important. At St. John’s we travelled the short distance to St. Catherine’s school in Heathfield, where once again the children sang, gave readings (and even some poetry), and explained why…

Dearest friends, Next Sunday we will be celebrating Mothering Sunday. It is a very old feast and comes on Laetare Sunday – a time in Lent when we take a moment to remember that we are already an Easter People, that we have already been saved, that we have already seen the resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ.  We take a breath and view the hard work we have undertaken so far, before girding ourselves for the coming weeks of…

Dearest friends, In Lent we will be following the Stations of the Cross on Saturday evenings before Evening Prayer.  But why? The 14 stations allow us to spend time with Jesus Christ in His last day on earth. We start with His condemnation and end as He is laid in his tomb.  Many churches have beautiful images, icons or even life size statues of each of these moments in His last day. Each gives us a moment to pause, to…

Dearest friends, This week we collected your palm crosses and burnt them to make the ash for Ash Wednesday (thank you Mark!)  There are never quite as many collected back as there are given out. We are reticent to give up those beautiful palm crosses that we took home from church last Palm Sunday.  They adorn our halls, our studies, our offices, our bedrooms, and we become used to their reassuring presence.  Each time we walk past them we feel…