Please God, and indeed with the help of God, life will be returning to what is more normal. It will continue to present us with a great challenge. The optimist would say an opportunity, and the realist will say now we should know there is “no magic”. What do we have to do? To do things with care is very important. To be careful is crucial. How we interpret the need for social distance and normal greetings is best accomplished by being careful.
After our journey through Lent with the Stations of the Cross, and our celebration of Easter with the Stations of the Resurrection, Pentecost has presented us with a great experience. Having celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation last Sunday we should have the inspiration to express; to live our faith. Real signs of life are with our children’s liturgy, and it does my heart good. Highlights the need for me to do better. Help please.
Sunday the 11th July at St George’s and Sunday 18th July at St Wilfrid’s presents us with helpful opportunities to begin to work together. Again, caution and care with the language we use. Outcome is what is most important, and to be careful is the best way to achieve this outcome.
So how are we to do this? I have made some suggestions and some persons (thank God) are beginning to make a response, and the best thing I can say is “early days”, but time passes by so quickly we need to get on with working for our future. We can all remember so many persons that we have lost in the last few years. One that stands out is Ann Fielder, because we were working with her in order to establish the “Missing Link”. It is best for us to begin again. Then I tried to introduce our “Leaven Groups”. So we begin again with the idea “how do we best work together?”