WELCOME TO ST MARY'S AND ALL SOULS
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St Mary's and All Souls Services We will post any revisions to services here and on our Facebook and Twitter feeds: https://www.facebook.com/StMarysAndAllSouls |
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St Mary's and All Souls latest Newsletter |
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PCC Papers You can now download minutes and other PCC documents from the PCC page |
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Food Bank latest needs: https://bromleyborough.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ *PLEASE DON'T SEND US FROZEN OR CHILLED ITEMS AS WE DON'T HAVE THE CORRECT STORAGE FOR IT AND IT SPOILS BEFORE WE CAN DISTRIBUTE IT* Thank you!
Judith Simmonds will be taking the Parish contributions towards the end of the month so please drop your donations into our box in the porch before then. |
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In need of help? Call |
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Here's the link to registering for help if you are in the highly vulnerable group: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable
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Princess Royal Hospital www.pruh.kch.nhs.uk | |||
Kenneth L’Anson writes:
God so loved the world that we might love it too. In Colossians chapter one we discover Jesus as the Lord of all Creation. God the Son in whom and through whom and for whom everything was created. The God of Justice calls us to care for the poor who suffer most in global heating. The Lord of creation loves the whole world, not only people. That is the message for our time that we might love it too.
The problem is for the last 50 years we have been improving our quality of life by compromising the health of our planet, the quality of life of our children and our children’s children and the flora and fauna of this special planet earth.
In our Lent course: The Mystery of Everything, based around the film, The Theory of Everything about the life and work of late eminent scientist Stephen Hawkings, we saw that Stephen and his wife differed on the mystery of our origins.
The Bible begins with God creating the heavens and the earth and all the creatures all of which is “very good” and until mankind was given control of it . We have a global heating crisis with two sets of facts, 1:’ the universe is made up of a hundred million galaxies. each of which has a hundred million stars. We are pretty small beer here. 2:’ the universe has existed for 14.8 billion years. Humankind for 200,000 years and civilization for 6,000 or more years . We are the blink of an eye. The universe and the earth will manage just fine without us. The climate emergency is crucial not for the planet’s survival, but for ours.
This should make us wonder more than ever at the central conviction of the Christian faith: That God chose this planet and this species with which to be in relationship, and God invested in us.
God so loved the world that we might love it too. In Colossians chapter one we discover Jesus as the Lord of all Creation. God the Son in whom and through whom and for whom everything was created. The God of Justice calls us to care for the poor who suffer most in global heating. The Lord of creation loves the whole world, not only people. That is the message for our time that we might love it too.