The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, which culminates this coming week with a four-day bank holiday weekend and events throughout the country, is a good time to look back on the Queen’s remarkable reign. The seventy years since she came to the throne have seen so many changes in so many areas of our lives - a quite staggering rate of change. The Royal Family, too, has seen many changes, yet somehow the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2022
Thinking about generosity
I’ve been thinking a lot about generosity this week. Now that there are only two weeks left to our Jubilee Fete it is very exciting to see the arrangements coming together, and I have been bowled over by people’s generosity in offering help and support. Here are a few of the offers of help we have had so far: Cottingham Co-op are donating scones and bunsOur Mothers’ Union members will prepare … [Read more...]
Looking forward
I always love the Easter season of the Church’s year. After the austerity of Lent, the emotional intensity of Holy Week, in these six weeks which the great rejoicing of Easter carries on and we remember once again what it is to be a people who live in the light of the Resurrection. Of course, these six weeks fall in April and May, which are some of the loveliest in the year, and that helps … [Read more...]