Most recent letter mailed to parishioners

Holy Week and Easter, 2010

Dear Friends,

Peace be with you. We have been given an opportunity during Lent to reflect once again on the shortness of life (for dust we are and to dust shall we return). Anyone who enjoys life must come to know death. But not everyone knows death experiences life. That is a faith response. The season of Lent helps us to understand these external truths about life and death.

The truth - that death is not the final word; the final act of creation is Eater and like the first it is all about life. Beyond the darkest hour in all our lives there is light and the hope of new life, a new beginning.

The truth - that when we do some act - any act of evil - God responds with forgiveness and challenges us to do likewise in our relationships with others - even when we are right!

The truth - that until we enter the Holy Week drama and try to come to terms with the forces that can destroy us we are not going to be able to live that way of life we call peace. We turn once again to Holy Week as we struggle to allow our deepest fears to be transformed. We enter once again into the pain and we follow where God in Christ has led through the realities of loss and descent to the light and life which can be found no other way. This is the rhythm of Holy Week and Easter. Each of us has a unique part in the drama.

Please come and share yours.

This comes wishing you and yours...

A Most Blessed Easter,

Peggy