St Marks Messenger - 05 2017

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The Messenger The Messenger PARISH OF SAINT MARK REMUERA OF SAINT MARK May PARISH 2017 Parish website: www.stmarks.org.nz Editor: Debra Hall REMUERA From the Vicar This is the last ‘Vicar’s’ page that I will write as Vicar of Saint Mark’s Parish before I become Dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral on the 6th July. It is with a sense of excitement at the opportunity I have been given and a sense of sadness for what might have been that I write. I must admit it has taken me a number of days of pondering and praying before I have been able to pen this piece. I know that for you as a parish this change brings about a sense of loss and anxiety about ‘what next’ as you and I face change and cross a new threshold. One of the most helpful things I can offer is the following reflection written by Flora Slosson Wuellner for the March/April 2017 Alive Now Magazine. She writes, “Jesus knew all about the thresholds between the known and the unknown. All his life he crossed borders between the tried and the untried, the safe and the risky, the old and the new. He walked the frontiers geographically, emotionally, and spiritually. As he and his friends shared the Passover supper, that night of his approaching arrest and trial, he tried to prepare, comfort, and empower his friends for the great changes that lay ahead, the thresholds they were all about to cross. He spoke words that prepare, comfort, and empower you and me today as we face our own thresholds of change.” Jesus writes, “Do not let your hearts be troubled…In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?” John 14:1-2 I believe these words refer not only to death’s threshold, but to any great change ahead of us. A new beginning or an ending, a gain or a loss. Any place we step into that is new and unexplored, the risen, living Christ


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