Letter from Revd. Keith Thornborough
Vicar
Dear Friends,
We continue in the wonderful season of Eastertide during May. On Thursday 9th, sometimes called Holy Thursday, we celebrate our risen Lord’s Ascension into heaven, forty days after Easter, the day of resurrection. We then move into a period of ten days of Ascensiontide, ending with Pentecost, fifty days after Easter. At Pentecost, we remember and give thanks for the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles and other disciples.
God sent his Holy Spirit to empower the Church to perform the mission which the risen Jesus Christ has entrusted to it.
Ascension and Pentecost are closely linked. The risen Lord is no longer present to the Church in the body of his flesh; the Church is now to be the new body of Christ, filled with his life through the gift of the Holy Spirit. We are the body of Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit we are to undertake his service of love and care.
God Bless
Keith.
