Wednesday 18 June 2025

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you are enjoying the sunshine, but also able to keep cool enough.

I very much hope to see you at the Summer Fête, THIS SATURDAY, 21st June, 10am - 3pm.
Come along and bring your friends. There will be lots on offer including our cake stall, food stall, book stall, and tombola, and with delicious food in our restaurant.
This is a wonderful community event as well as a fundraiser.
We still need volunteers: to bake cakes, help run stalls, help in the restaurant, and to clear up afterwards. We would also appreciate more bottles for the tombola. If you are able to help, please do let Maria in the office know.

James Morgan's Ordination, 6th July
James will be ordained as a priest at St Ursula's on Sunday 6th July, at 10.30am, by Bishop Alison White.
NB please do note the change of time. This is so that there is time to run through everything with Bishop Alison before the service. There will be a bring and share lunch after the service. I do hope you will all come to this very special occasion. Please keep James and Lilian and all their family in your prayers.

'Ordinary Time': Green for Growth and Flourishing
I love green! The Dählhölzli is spectacular at the moment, with so many different shades of green. The trees and bushes are so full of life; green and flourishing. The colour in the liturgical church is now also green. We are now in what is called 'ordinary time': that is not Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost or any other special season. You may have noticed that we have different colours in church for different church seasons: gold or white for Christmas, Epiphany, Easter and Trinity, purple for Advent and Lent, red for Pentecost. The colour of the cross at the base of the altar and the colour of the cloths over the bread and wine changes according to these seasons. That the colour for 'ordinary time' (which is much of the year) is green, seems very appropriate. Green is the colour of growth and flourishing, and most of our growing and learning takes place in the midst of our ordinary lives, in 'ordinary time.'

Let us pray that these weeks and months ahead may indeed be a time when we put down deeper roots into God's love, are nourished by his Word, and our life in Christ grows and flourishes.

With love in Christ,
Helen