Here we are again, another lockdown
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
At the beginning of this year when our first experience of lockdown began after Ash Wednesday, we were experiencing the season of Lent. Then all of a sudden on the horizon was Holy Week, and I was settled into praying the Divine Office, and celebrating Holy Mass on my own. I was also experiencing the benefits of live streaming Mass and other devotions. The Sacred Heart church in Hove became a sanctuary. Holy Week was a very focused fruitful time, with the passion, death and resurrection merging with our experience of lockdown.
The evenings were getting longer and the weather was very kind. Spring watch was a God send, and a sense of light at the end of the tunnel. The Feasts of the Ascension and Pentecost are a time of hope and renewal. Now Remembrance Sunday is particularly appropriate. Deacon John’s contribution is very helpful. Like Good Friday, the focus of Remembrance is upon injury, great damage and loss. At the heart of their experience of affliction, death may have appeared as a welcome escape. But for us when we give it all the care and attention it deserves, it leaves us with a great sense of the virtue of Hope and the odds that people can overcome through perseverance.
To be continued …………………………..