St. Pauls' Church, Kandy. Parish Quarterly Magazine - December2023

Message From the Vicar
“The harvest of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”
(Galatians 5:22-23)
Dear members of the family of St.Paul’s church Kandy,
As a Christian community of Kandy, we are approaching the 4th and
the final quarter of this year. Beginning with celebrating God’s
creation in the month of October which is specially dedicated to St.
Mary, the mother of our saviour, when we reach the end of November
we will be celebrating the Kingship of Christ before we enter the
season of hope, which is the Advent. This is followed by the world
children’s day, elder’s day and the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
Leading us to understand how important the growth in Christ and the
wisdom of elders. St. Francis who is the saint of creation and peace,
gives us the courage to work for peace and the environment and
climate change as a stewards of God, so let us remember that it is our
solemn calling to protect our mother earth, and its future. Dear
faithful, as you are aware, our nation and its people have entered an
extremely uncertain era where everybody feels unsafe, economically
pressured. We have been a victim of some small groups of corrupt
political elites and their irresponsible actions, and it is still continuing
without any concern for the poor, children, elderly and the lowest
class of the society New research shows, in every part of the society
is suffering. Educated, skilled people are leaving their mother land.
The international community is seriously concerned about what’s
happening in our country,they feel sad about our country because it
was a promising nation in the early 20th century. The effect of the
migration of skilled labour has affected Christian communities and
specially the church. St Paul’s lost many young and energetic people
who can contribute to the mission of our church. While challengers
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