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Peace be with you.

Stephen Fielding + Rector

Rector's Letter publishesd in the March-April 2013 issue of 'The Voice'

Dear Friends in Christ,

The horsemeat saga of the last few weeks has reminded us of a number of things has it not? We recall the old saying, ‘never judge a book by its cover’, or to contemporise that, ‘never judge a pre-packed meal by what it says are its contents on the cardboard sleeve’.
Some say we don’t know what we’re eating these days and that the entire food chain is poisoned in some way. As with every crisis there may be those who lose and those who gain. This saga will certainly make us think again about what we’re consuming and who knows, it may revive an interest in ‘growing your own’ and buying locally sourced produce.
The surprise of horse DNA in our foods was not a pleasant surprise for most of us, unlike the pleasant surprise we get when we break into a Cadbury’s Easter egg and all those little tasty bars of chocolate fall out. This is as nothing to the ‘great surprise’ that we Christians call Easter and the joy of the resurrection that Mary of Magdala, doubting Thomas and Simon Peter would have enjoyed on meeting the risen Lord.
Easter eggs remind us of the sweet moment of the resurrection and of the new life. In Eastern churches eggs were dyed red to symbolise the blood of Christ shed on the Cross and the hard shell, the sealed tomb of Christ. The broken Easter egg symbolises the empty tomb. When Easter comes after the weeks of Lent , enjoy your Easter eggs and celebrate the oldest festival in the Christian calendar and on that day let us proclaim joyfully with the church throughout the world that ‘Christ is risen!’

Yours in Christ,

Stephen Fielding