FROM REVEREND ROBIN                                                                  

I wanted to use this space this month to try and help get your heads around the many services that are happening in April. As we are in the season of Lent, we have many different services happening across the benefice.

To begin with, our Compline services continue for the next two weeks. These are lovely services (every service is lovely of course), a time of quiet reflection and often last around fifteen to twenty minutes at most. Candlelit and a wonderful way to reflect and give thanks for the day that has passed. Tradition suggests this service is left in silence.

On Palm Sunday we will have a mix of morning prayer or communion services where we remember Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Palm crosses are given out for you to take home and bring back to church next year where they will be burnt and made into ashes to be used at the next Ash Wednesday service.

For Holy Week beginning on Monday after Palm Sunday we will have a Communion Service every day in churches across the benefice. These will be at 11:00 until Good Friday when it will be at 14:00 to remember and reflect on Christ’s Crucifixion. On Holy Saturday (Easter Eve) we will be welcoming in Easter at 20:00 at Michaelstow Church with a fire in the Church Yard before moving into the Church to light the Easter Candle.

And finally, on 27th April, once the joy of the resurrection has been celebrated and the chocolate has been eaten, Evensong returns to Helland at 17:00 and St Tudy will be having its first Pet Service.

If Blisland’s is anything to go by who hold them every year, this service will be absolute chaos in the most wonderful way providing you are an animal lover! All animals are welcome but please keep dogs on leads and remember to take them for a walk to empty themselves first! There is no limit to size, Blisland often has everything from goats to snails, rats and bunnies, and I believe before my time there was a hawk as well.