Easter 7 – 1 June 2025
Thank you to every one who participated in the Blanket Exercise on Sunday, to everyone who provided food to share and gifts for our presenters and thank you especially to Ann Turner who did a great deal of planning and organizing. It was a powerful learning opportunity for everyone who took part.
On May 31 we celebrate the feast of the Visitation, the moment in Luke’s Gospel (1:41-56) when Mary goes to visit her relative Elizabeth, who was also against all expectations going to have a child, that the babe in Elizabeth’s womb ‘leaped for joy’ when he heard Mary’s voice, and as the older woman blesses the younger, that Mary gives voice to the beautiful and revolutionary Magnificat. May you be blessed by this excerpt from Malcom Guite’s poem called The Visitation and may you find joy in the unexpected.
Blessings, Rev. Laurel
Two women on the very edge of things
Unnoticed and unknown to men of power
But in their flesh the hidden Spirit sings
And in their lives the buds of blessing flower.
And Mary stands with all we call ‘too young’,
Elizabeth with all called ‘past their prime’
They sing today for all the great unsung
Women who turned eternity to time.