Newsletter - 20 April 2025
Easter Journeys
Alleluia! Christ is risen! Easter has arrived and our journey through Lent is finished.
I hope that your own Lent journey has been fruitful.
During Lent we produced five short videos – interviews with parishioners about their own unique journey in life. If you haven’t had a chance to see them, it is not too late. They remain on our parish YouTube channel under the playlist Easter Journeys "Parish News".
But now they could be called “Easter Journeys,” for each one of them gives witness to resurrection – new life in God, which is really the point for our Lent journey, isn’t it? What can we learn about Easter from these videos?
Moushmi’s pride took over when she married a Christian and decided to become more Hindu than ever. But doubts kept rising and she began to cry out to God – what is truth? Who is the true God? It wasn’t reasoning that answered that question, but God reaching through her pride with an intervention of the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes conversion is slower, and we see in Jo’s life a series of stepping stones, leading her back to the church and faith in God. In these steps God used her natural talent for music in a supernatural way.
Rena’s journey could be described as a search for authenticity and belonging. Step by step, she was led to this parish. It included a powerful experience of the Holy Spirit when she finally understood God’s love.
Anne Charlotte struggled to find meaning in a big suffering. She prayed for healing for her son but instead found the miracle of peace.
Georges and Olga’s journey began with a sudden and harrowing war. Moving through fear and uncertainty, God met them over and over through the kindness of strangers. Arriving at a safe harbour, they can now say “we keep the future for God.”
Conclusion? Every journey is unique. Step by step God will lead you to new life. Sometimes it happens slowly, or resurrection will come suddenly as pure gift. Keep on asking, searching, and waiting.
Nancy Wood, ccn
Focus of the week
EASTER EGG HUNT
Our Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Easter Sunday after 11am mass.
BRING A BELL TO CHURCH AT EASTER
During Lent we stopped singing the Gloria and Alleluia.
Let’s add to our celebration of Easter by bringing bells to the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday Masses and ring them during these joyous moments in the Mass. If you don’t have any bells, you can rattle your keys!!
PARISH QUIZ NIGHT
Saturday 26 April 2025
Tickets will be on sale after weekend masses
and from the parish office.
Adults £6
Children under 12 - £3