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St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin

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Thank you to the Flower Guild for the beautiful Easter display!

We are observing the old tradition of the Rogationtide Walk once again this year. On Sunday, May 4th, we’ll set off from church at just after 10 a.m. to enjoy our countryside, before heading to Clinton Lodge for refreshments around 11 a.m.

Rogation Walk

Friends of Fletching AGM
here in Church on
Tuesday, 13th May
at 7 p.m.

Confirmation 2025

This year’s confirmation service is in Holy Cross, Uckfield,
on October 5th, Harvest Sunday, in the late afternoon.
Fletching will be presenting three candidates. If you’d like
to be confirmed this year, please let David know.

Please remember in your prayers …

On Easter Day, we give thanks for the Resurrection and the assurance that death does not have the last word.

We pray for all those who suffer through war. We pray for those having, somehow, to carry on living through the appalling violence of the wars between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, and the civil wars in Sudan and Myanmar,

We pray for the King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and all the Royal Family. We pray for all in authority.

We pray for all those at a crossroads in their lives, remembering
Bill Campbell.

We pray for those who are sick. Especially Sue Campbell, Maureen O’Loughlin, Richard Bradley, Sue Collins, Stephanie Bassett, Bertie Going, Scilia Palmer and any others known to us.

May they rest in peace,
remembering ….

Mark Anderson, Pippa Sleath, Jonathan Miall, Andy Johnson (reunited with Rose, and whose funeral will be in Church, the date still to be confirmed), Roy Bellingham (whose funeral is in Church on April 28th), Sydney James Powis (whose funeral is on May 14th), and John Patrick Bevan (whose ashes will come to the Church in May, the date still to be confirmed).

Also calling to mind this Easter all those we have known and loved but see no longer.

A poem for Easter Day …

George Herbert was a Church of England priest and one of the most significant poets of the Metaphysical Movement of the 17th Century. At one time also a courtier, a politician and a spy, he gave it all up to serve as a priest in a small, rural parish. The poem is shaped like a pair of wings.

Easter Wings by George Herbert

Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
Though foolishly he lost the same, Yes of it our is too
Decaying more and more,
Till he became
Most poore:
With thee
O let m rise
As larks, harmoniously,
And sing this day thy victories:
Then shall the fall further the flight in me.

My tender age in sorrow did beginne
And still with sicknesses and shame.
Thou didst so punish sinne,
That I became
Most thinne.
With thee
Let me combine,
And feel thy victorie:
For, if Iimp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

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