Page 83 - br-april-2022

April 2022 April 2022
VILLAGE JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS
EASTER LILIES

By the time that you read this magazine we will have
held our open meeting where everyone will have Every year, the Sanctuary Flower Guild creates special
been given the opportunity to suggest events to arrangements of Easter Lilies for Easter. The tradition behind
celebrate the Jubilee, and to arrive at a consensus as this is that parishioners can make a personal donation
to what will be included. Details of the programme will towards the lilies in memory of a loved one.
be published on the village notice boards and in the This year, there will be one central arrangement with a
May magazine. We look forward to a celebration that board on which the individual memory cards, with your
will be enjoyable and inclusive for all members of our own personal message, can be displayed .
village community.
If you would like to make such a donation (suggested
Jubilee Coordinating Group amount £3.50 per lily) towards the lilies for this arrangement,
please contact Diane Edmonds on 01929 472331
edmonds473@btinternet.com or Sarah Welton on
01929471562 sarahwelton@oceans.f9.co.uk before 1st April
2022.

DEAN’S LETTER

From: The Very Revd Nicholas
Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury

“We will all die”.
Those were the words of the taxi driver
who drove me from the airport into
central Beirut in October last year. I
had asked him what he thought the
future held for the Lebanese people.

Perhaps I should have expected a blunt response. An uneasy peace has
prevailed in Lebanon since the end of its bloody civil war in 1990. But this was put
under immense pressure by the outward ripples of the financial crisis of 2008, and
by the explosion in the port of Beirut which ripped the city apart in 2020. Its
economy badly mismanaged; its politics corrupt and ineffective; swathes of its
territory controlled by Hezbollah: it is difficult for the Lebanese people to be
hopeful, and it is difficult to be hopeful for them.
I remembered my taxi driver’s words when – still in the depths of this cruellest of all
seasons of Lent – I began to think about writing this Easter letter. President Putin
attacked Ukraine barely one week after Ash Wednesday, and many of us have
found it impossible to think of anything but the suffering of the Ukrainians ever

82 11