Palm Sunday . . .

We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful Spring day for our Palm Sunday procession. Here are a couple of photos taken yesterday. As usual, our magnificent magnolia almost stole the show . . .

Although we only have a short distance to travel for our procession, it's fortunate that we are able to process alongside the main road for a little while. Hopefully it makes passing motorists stop and think. (Though not literally, we hope!)

The procession leaving the parish hall seemed to go on and on . . .

All the Masses were beautiful yesterday with the always-moving reading of the Passion and a marvellous beginning to Holy Week. Extra times made available for Confessions have been popular too and it's good to see so many taking advantage of this opportunity to prepare well for Easter.

A very prayerful and blessed Holy Week to all.

All things new

We have enjoyed a few days of lovely Spring weather recently interspersed with reminders that we haven't quite seen the last of Winter yet.

Just as the garden is beginning to come to life again, so visitors and parishioners will have noticed other new things appearing in and around our church.

After a slight delay we now have a new porch floor which is a great improvement on the old,worn and chipped tiles that it has replaced.

Our next-door neighbour has also taken advantage of the improvement in the weather to begin work on a smart new fence along the boundary between his property and that of the church.

Just as we often think on tackling the Spring cleaning in our homes when the days get longer and the weather warmer, do we ever think of taking a look at our spiritual life and see if that too could do with a spot of Spring cleaning! Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we might go about Spring cleaning our spiritual lives?

Spring

For those of you who might have been away from the parish recently here is a photo of our magnificent magnolia taken in full bloom in the sunshine on 4th April.

It's incredible to think that this second picture of the same tree was taken just 2 days later.