Niftynotes news & information from the Diocese www.southwell.anglican.org APRIL 2019 Compiled by Nicola Mellors email:
[email protected] Bishop Paul’s Easter Message n his classic, The Hobbit, We need to recover a sense of Tolkein writes, “There is personal wonder if we are to help Inothing like looking, if you others to see the compelling want to find something. You significance of the events of that certainly usually find something, first Easter morning. if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were The writer Eugene Peterson puts after.” it like this, “It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let “Jesus said to Mary Magdalene, alone resurrection wonder, to ‘Woman, why are you weeping? another. It’s the very nature of For whom are you looking?’ wonder to catch us off guard, to Supposing him to be the gardener, circumvent expectations and she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have assumptions. Wonder can’t be Hope is in very short supply for carried him away, tell me where packaged, and it can’t be worked many people, often for intensely you have laid him, and I will take up. It requires some sense of personal reasons. On a national him away.’ Jesus said to her, being there and some sense of level the uncertainty over Brexit, ‘Mary!’ engagement.” whatever your political Continued on page 12 viewpoint, is only feeding the With that single word the search fears that diminish a sense of was over, the despair was gone, hope. In this month’s issue: the mystery of the ages unfolding before her very eyes.