We have come now to the end of our Season of Easter. Pentecost is the great Amen to all that we have been celebrating from Easter. Christ lives!
And in his resurrected life Christ sends us the Spirit, the Spirit that enables us both to remember him and to provide us always with new opportunities of encounter and discipleship.
For this reason it is my great joy to write a special Pastoral Letter to you all this Pentecost. I first wrote a Pastoral Letter for our parish at Pentecost 2021.
Now, two years later our journey, Being Church in the City, has unfolded to that point where we can boldly and confidently proclaim our Parish Mission:
“Bringing the Light of Christ to the City: We love, we grow, we share.”
My Pastoral Letter seeks to give our Mission context but I also share some exciting new implications about how we might continue to journey forward from this point.
This has been possible only because of the remarkable contribution of so many – throughout our process of listening and discernment an incredible 1,500 submissions were received through all the various stages.
This is a sure sign of the Spirit’s vitality which demonstrates the remarkable good will and commitment in our community of faith.
As can be seen in the Pastoral Letter, though we had to discern what formulation of our Mission finally to adopt, the intention of other formulations has not been lost and wonderfully is now captured in other parts of our parish framework.
I invite us all to celebrate the moment to which the Spirit has led us!
Click here to read the Pastoral Letter.