Following a delay in returning to Volunteering at UHNM due to the high level of C-19 infections, towards the end of April I was invited to a meeting at ‘County Hospital’ to reconnect with the ‘SPaRC Team’ (Spiritual, Pastoral and Religious Care) to discuss the possibilities around returning to my role there. It was a...
This month marks a shift that we have anticipated for a very long time. Death reigned until a vaccine provided protection. Those vaccinated still get infected, since we can’t eradicate the virus from the world in which we live, but it is not an infection that leads to death. I touch on this watershed moment...
Egg Sunday. Another record! April 23rd resulted in the collection of 2,635 eggs from Christ Church parish, of which total 1,887 were contributed by Meaford, largely through the untiring efforts of Mrs Lindsay, to whom out cordial thanks are due. These eggs were subsequently distributed between the N. Staffs Infirmary and the Stafford General Hospital,...
How have you occupied yourself in the long dark days of winter lockdown? Over the last year we have done a few jigsaw puzzles, mostly 1,000 piece puzzles. However, the hardest puzzle we did had a mere 500 pieces. Even putting the edge pieces together was difficult, so many pieces seemed to fit in more...
PENTE is Greek for the number 50. So what is Pentecost? Leviticus 23:15-21, describes a ‘Feast of Weeks’ or the ‘Counting of the Omer’ starting after the Passover, on the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and lasting 50 days, or seven weeks, ending with Shavuot - the second of three major Jewish...