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Dear Friends,<br />
<strong>November</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
<strong>November</strong> is here and you begin to wonder where the year has<br />
gone. The clocks have gone back, the darkness draws in,<br />
the trees are bare, and morning mist can lie on the fields.<br />
<strong>November</strong> is very much a time of remembering. It begins<br />
with our “Service of Light” on the 29th October. During this<br />
service we remember and pray for family members or<br />
friends who have passed away. Those who we know<br />
personally. On Armistice Day, 11th <strong>November</strong> we will gather<br />
at 11 0’Clock around the Cenotaph in Market Rasen for<br />
our Act of Remembrance. On the 12th <strong>November</strong> we<br />
will hold our annual Service of Remembrance with the<br />
Royal British Legion. At this service we will remember<br />
those who made great sacrifice, have died or have<br />
been injured or maimed fighting to protect us, to bring peace and justice for all<br />
people and continue to do so throughout the world today. As well as honouring<br />
those who gave their lives, we must also honour their memory in keeping faith<br />
with them and use our energies to build the sort of world that they held dear. For<br />
peace and harmony amongst all nations and peoples.<br />
As the years go by, there are less and less people who were living during the<br />
Second World War. However it is important to stop and remember the great<br />
sacrifices that were made by so many, and those who make sacrifice today. The<br />
freedoms that we continue to enjoy today have come at great cost.<br />
The sacrifice made by others reminds me of the sacrifice that Jesus made for<br />
us. In John’s Gospel we read the famous words “Greater love has no man than<br />
this:to lay down one’s life for his friend” (John 15:13). Jesus gave us the ultimate<br />
sacrifice for our freedom.<br />
At the end of <strong>November</strong>, our Church year will come to a close and we begin the<br />
season of Advent. Traditionally we have always held a number of Advent<br />
courses and this year will be no different. This year our Advent course has been<br />
written by Rev David Atkinson and Rev Claire Walker. The course is called “Four<br />
Candles” and each session focuses on one of the people represented and<br />
remembered by the four candles around the Advent wreath: Patriarchs,<br />
Prophets, John the Baptist and Mary. The course aims to be a preparation to<br />
welcome Jesus into our lives afresh at Christmas. A space to consider your<br />
response to God at work in your life, and to empower and equip you to live out<br />
your faith in your daily life. I hope very much that you will join one of the Advent<br />
groups.<br />
God Bless<br />
Rev Steve<br />
A Letter from the Rector<br />
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