Parish Quarterly - St. Paul's Church, Kandy

Message From the Vicar

Dear Friends in Christ,

As we enter the last few months of this year, we journeyed through what we have received from the lectionary as a season of wellness, celebrating differently abled and the healthcare service, and then a season of Kingdom tide pronouncing the reign of Christ and how we the Church must respond, and then in December we begin the liturgical year with Advent and the joyful Christmas Season.

At the forefront of our liturgical celebrations the active participation of each committee and ministry: from the Environment committee, to the Servers Guild, the Media team, to the Outreach Committee,the Adult Bible Study group to Eventide along with Simeon and Anna Fellowship. Several of these committees such as the Mothers Union, Youth Fellowship and the Sunday School had their celebrations coupled with other events such as sales, fun activities etc.

Let me take this opportunity to thank members of each and every committee, ministry and fellowship for their dedicated commitment in this year. The ‘Mission’ of St Paul’s has been truly served well by you all, women and men of God and your work.

As I write this message, it has been six months with the new arrangement that we have had at St Paul’s with regard to clergy movements. While it is never the same as having full-time clergy, I thank Fr Anthony Fernando together with the Trustees and all other Staff for their committed support as we never let any shortcomings spring up in pastoral or other spheres.

We still have much to look forward to as we turn our attention to the Advent Bible Studies, Caroling, Carol Services, Christmas outreach programmes and all else that will certainly capture our imagination in a few more weeks. Our request is for All family members of St Paul’s to participate fully, flourishingly and in a manner that is spiritually befitting.

Let us not fail to uphold the country and the world as it goes through transitions and cries for peace respectively, and make our preparations individually and as families to meet the Christ child at Christmas with happiness and wonder.

With prayers for a Meaningful Advent, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.