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February 2021
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Vision: To encourage awareness of the
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To make
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To challenge injustice at home and
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A LETTER FROM YOUR ASSOCIATE PRIEST
The Dates for your Diary

Dear friends
section will return in due course, I hope this lockdown hasn’t been too hard on you. I think it is quite bitter-sweet –
we know that it is good for us and something we must endure, but we can’t help
once all our clubs, societies and thinking it would be nice to get our freedom back. At least now we have more
glimmers of hope because of the vaccines and the efficient way they are being
rolled out. Talking of glimmers, there has definitely been evidence that the days
events are back on track. are getting a little longer. I was out until about 5pm yesterday and it was only just
dusk, but it had been a sunnier day. It’s the middle of January as I write and for
most, Christmas will be just a distant memory, but in my home and in our
Hopefully, it will not be too long churches, there are still Crib scenes out and they will remain so until the 2 of
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February.
before we return to some kind of You may wonder why this is…

Every year on February 2 the Christian Church celebrates the festival of
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normality. Candlemas, or to give it it’s proper title ‘The Presentation of Christ in the Temple’.
It marks the halfway point between the winter solstice on 21 December and the
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spring equinox on 21 March.
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Long ago, before Christianity, people celebrated a festival of light at this time,

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