Rector's Letter

 
 As we head into March, we are already in the third week of Lent. I wonder if you have done anything different for Lent or are just enjoying the foods which have come to mark the days between Lent and Easter: pancakes, simnel cake, hot cross buns and Easter eggs.

It’s great of course for our retailers to have another season to focus on following Christmas but Lent can offer us more. It can be an opportunity to do a stock-take on our lives. Lent follows the pattern of Jesus going into the desert for 40 days, facing trials and temptations and emerging from it stronger, focused and ready to fulfil his calling. I often encounter people at – or immediately after - crisis points or difficult moments in their lives and I'm often struck how they have a renewed sense of focus about their priorities; what it is that really matters to them. 

Lent gives us an opportunity to reflect on our own journey through life and check our compass; are we heading in the direction that we want to be heading? Perhaps in our ever fast-paced world, having a season to prompt us to this reflection is needed more than ever. With the different expectations and pressures placed upon us - including those we place on ourselves- changing our direction of travel is not easy; and so we carry on doing what we've always done. 

Perhaps also, Lent gives us an opportunity to reflect on the bigger questions facing the direction of travel of our world; conflict, climate change and other crises. It is so easy to feel that the issues are too big and we can make no difference; but very often, we can make a difference, however small and, of course, when enough people think in this way, then real change is possible. 

When Jesus emerged from the desert after 40 days he had made some clear choices that were formational to his future ministry and life. Perhaps after a personal stock-take we may feel more equipped or have more clarity about a new direction of travel in our own lives.   

Jane Burgess (Rector) 
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Children’s crafts 10am Saturday March 30th St Nicholas church 
Maundy Thursday Holy Communion with a meal 6pm St Nicholas Church 
Good Friday ‘An hour at the Cross’ 2pm St Hubert Church   
Easter day Family Communion 10am St Nicholas Church  
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