Every year, our baptistry is turned into an Easter garden.
You can see it on the left: John is at the side. It's just before Morning Prayer last week.
Praying in front of it is wonderful. The flowers team with life and everywhere there's new symbolism. The empty tomb most obviously, but the olive trees, the nails from the cross, the flowers still bursting into life. We'll keep it there till the end of the Easter season, but that's only a couple of weeks away, so it'll end then.
Come and see it before it finishes.
In the middle is the font, where this Sunday there will be three more baptisms: Kyan and Nyah in the morning, and Eva in the afternoon. A beautiful place for a new Christian life to begin.
Meantime, a salute to the cubs and cub leaders who had a tremendously successful camp last week. (I will hope to post on that more, when I get hold of the pictures for you to see.)
And look out for our parish quiz night, this coming Saturday night: 7 for 7.30pm start. Food will be provided. Bring £4 and test your wits. Should be great fun.
Also, it's Christian Aid week. We had a great sermon on this from Michael on Sunday, so if you're inspired to give and haven't had the chance yet, there will be more envelopes next Sunday.
Father Robert
