Message from our Chaplain Mairie
Happy New Year and Feast of the Epiphany
These ‘wise’ travellers may well have been considered foolish to follow a star and a prophecy in hope. They were prepared to stake reputation; to leave family; to risk the dangers of travel; to risk the hospitality of strangers. To follow more than a star and for more than two weeks – they arrive at the house, not at the stable and Mary has a child, not a baby. The Magi, prepared to put aside their expectation, wisdom and status – knelt at the feet of a child. The passage, in Matthew’s Gospel, fills barely half a page yet has fired the imagination of artists, writers, poets as well as people of faith for two thousand years. The blessing of the Magi has also become a blessing of the home in many countries, and we celebrated that in school this week.
During our Inset Day we read a poem by Amanda Gorman. It is quite a long poem but speaks of where many of us find ourselves in the New Year.
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