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Sunday 10th March is Mothering Sunday and there is a special service to mark our mothers, at 11am in St Petrock’s Church. You are very welcome to come along and join in. We invite you to bring along pictures of your mother and/or grandmother to display so we can see and appreciate them. Maybe we can even try to work out who their children are! Rev Nicola has baked a simnel cake to enjoy after the service with tea and coffee. A lovely St Petrock’s tradition is to hand out a posy of flowers to all who come along to this annual celebration. We do look forward to seeing you there.

Marion Jeffrey

The church is in the season of Lent, the 40 days run up to Easter, and one of my favourite Sunday’s is Mothering Sunday.  On Mothering Sunday, we give thanks for the love and nurture of our mothersbut we also think of all those who play any kind of ‘mothering’ role in the lives of children and young people whether extended family members siblings, aunties, grandparents or those in the wider community teachers, nurses, all those who care for others.

St Petrock’s will be celebrating this on Sunday 10th March at the 11.00 am service.  Please come and bring a photo of your mother so we can display the photos and give thanks for all they mean or have meant to us.

On Palm Sunday we are planning a Messy church Sunday service at 11.00am for children and families with crafts and food as we tell the story of Easter.  All are welcome to come and join us.

We are also planning some short Easter meditations (no longer than 20 minutes) in Holy Week followed by breakfast in church on Tuesday 26th March, Wednesday 27th March and Friday 29th March at 9.30 am.  These will be times of quiet reflection on the events leading up to Good Friday.

As we move towards Easter with the appearing of bright yellow daffodils and primroses and the warmth of the sun as daylight hours increase I am reminded of the hope that Easter brings.  With the gold of dawn on that first Easter Sunday came the resurrection and new hope with the rising Son going out to a waiting world. 

Resumes Thursday 22nd February at 10am to 12 noon and all are very welcome! Cake, coffee and conversation are on offer to all who would like to drop in! Warm Welcome will run every Thursday from 22nd February to end March. We look forward to seeing you there.

You are warmly invited to come along to four Lent Reflections run by Rev Nicola which will take us into the world of Mother Julian of Norwich, a 14th century visionary. Written by Emma Pennington, ‘At the Foot of the Cross with Julian of Norwich’ is an accessible book which takes the reader into her world and considers the background to her visions and her writings. Easily available online, but if preferred we will have spare copies in the church, do come along for an hour each week to focus on her revelations and what it means for us. The first meeting is next Monday 19th at 11am in St Petrock’s.

A simple Lenten lunch will also be held in The Lion at 12.15pm next Monday 15th to which all are welcome, whether or not you have been to the Reflection held beforehand.