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The Second Sunday of Epiphany
Sunday 17th January
10.30am Parish Mass Online via our Facebook page
Wednesday 20th January
11am Said Mass Online via our Facebook page
*Important Announcement*
My brothers and sisters,
Many of us entered 2021, hoping for a change of what we had come to know in the previous year. We still have this hope!
However, in light of the government's announcement, we have moved back to a situation where the doors of our church building remain temporarily closed and services are held solely online until it we feel it safe for us to move back into church.
2020 taught us, as a church – the body of Christ, that we have more resilience than many of us realised. At times, we were also reminded that God is able to bring us through even the most difficult of situations.
It is clear that many of us will once again have to endure the sad reality of being away from friends, family and loved ones. Many of us will spend a number of hours throughout the day physically separated from others. Once again, we must find the inner strength to lean on Jesus. The one who first showed himself in a stable, continues to show up in the confused spaces of our own life!
The Clergy and Churchwardens will discuss a new programme of services for our online worship and entertainment. We will ensure that phone calls are made to the whole congregation so that we can all stay in touch. We will continue, as always to pray for you as we know you do for us.
Beloved, be encouraged and of good heart. For we know that HOPE is more contagious than Covid-19 and that God's liberating love has more power than temporal worldly restrictions.
I leave you with words from St Paul's Second letter to the Corinthians verses 7-10:
“But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.”
With love and blessings,
Fr Grant
Who's who
Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage
Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage
Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage
Fr. John Francis
Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage
Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage
Hon. Assistant Curate
Fr. Angus Galbraith
Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage
Fr. Angus Galbraith
Hon. Assistant Priest