This Sunday we are celebrating Candlemas - or as it is formally known, the Presentation of Christ. These two names reflect its twin themes. On the one hand, it is the feast when we remember Mary and Joseph bringing Jesus to the Temple to make the offering for him as the firstborn son. We recall Simeon taking the baby into his arms, and recognising him as the ‘light for revelation to the … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2022
A joyful day!
What a joyful event last Sunday’s confirmation was! Every time I think about it, I can’t help smiling. Austen Redman’s photo of the our four confirmands, Ray, Veronica, Jean and Garry as they answer Bishop Alison wonderfully evokes the both the solemnity of the occasion and its great joy. T his week, of course, has been much quieter - we can’t live on the mountain-top all the time - but I … [Read more...]
Signs of hope in the Rectory garden
I have a new morning routine: every day I go out into my garden and prowl around, looking for the growing tips of the bulbs I’ve planted to come up. Most of them are around the edges of the lawn (well, around the edges of the moss!) and they’re hard to spot, so I was very happy this morning to see this little clump of snowdrops pushing their leaves through the soil. Green shoots! Can there be any … [Read more...]
A line of gold
Happy New Year! This is often a time for looking forward and back - to the year that has just gone and the year that is to come. This time last year we were going into a long and hard lockdown, and I think that’s one reason why last year is so hard to remember. Those long weeks of last winter and early spring when we were all at home mean that we missed those events we mark the time by, and it … [Read more...]