Happy Easter

A very happy Easter from St Catherine's! From our Maundy Thursday meal, with David Tazzini-Lloyd providing excellent entertainment with his superb magic show, and Lesley & Esther arranging a wonderful evening for all of us, through to Good Friday's profound and moving afternoon service led by Aled Edwards, not forgetting our prayer breakfast on Saturday morning and our read through of St Mark on Saturday evening, before all our Sunday services, we had a terrific Easter!

Easter Sunday was truly wonderful. The usual warm and caring 8am congregation heard a lovely Resurrection sermon from Gill Tuck, and were treated to breakfast afterwards by Val.

The 11am service had a little of everything - Trish spoke movingly of the power of Resurrection, and finished her talk with her daughter Gemma singing to us from John 3:16. Beautiful. The music, led by Dan, was excellent throughout - it's good to have the full band back!

At 6pm Marcus wove themes from across St John's Gospel into his Resurrection talk, with Gill and Andy leading us gently on closer into Jesus' presence. We also prayed for Karsten, back with us for the weekend and now hoping to be selected to train for ordination, and it was good to have Emma show us her sash and crown as Miss University GB before the service started too! Her work for the Joshua Foundation, serving children suffering from terminal cancer, is something her watching grandfather (and vicar's warden!) is rightly proud of.

Thanks too to all who worked so hard preparing the church for the weekend - providing flowers, cleaning the place, and setting out the amazing Easter bonnets from the children of Maes-y-Coed Primary School. Thank you all!

Above all, we were reminded again and again of the powerful love of God. Love that goes to any and every length that we might not be trapped in the brokenness of this world, but lifted up with the Rising Jesus to know God, the author of all love; love that is big enough to fill a universe, and personal enough to be just for you and just for me.