Can I ask you to bring a flower with you to our Easter services at St Bart's?
This year our services are both familiar and different. Some of the difference will enable us to follow the COVID guidelines intended to reduce our community's risk. It may help if I set out these changes as you consider how you might join us in the week ahead.
In addition to our regular services, we have added two services. One at 10am on Good Friday and one at 6pm on Easter Eve. These extra services help us ensure that we manage the numbers of people who attend each service to provide appropriate physical distancing. I highly recommend that you register before attending as we may reach our capacity at some of these services. You can do this either through our website or by contacting the office. We hope that any visitors who attend Easter services will find that there is space for them.
Easter Eve at 6 pm will be a special service that, through story, music and participation, is particularly suitable for families with children. All Easter services will include Communion and the reaffirmation of our Baptismal Vows.
Over many years now, I have found a sense of joy at Easter by decorating the Cross with flowers that symbolise the new life that resurrection brings. Can I encourage you to bring a flower to whichever Easter service you attend so that you can take part in this expression of new life through the events of Easter?
God's Peace,
Michael Stalley