Friends,
We look forward to opening the sanctuary this Sunday. We hope to see some of you here in the flesh, although we understand many of you will continue to connect via Zoom (email welcome@cmm.org.za for link) – this is especially true for those of us potentially more vulnerable to COVID.
Please continue to make your safety and the safety of others a priority.
On entering the sanctuary:
- Use the hand sanitiser available.
- Wear your mask for the full duration of the service. (Note: There will be no singing.)
- Keep 1.5 m personal distance from others.
In addition to the pews there are also individual chairs available to use. The pews are marked with yellow tape to indicate seats that are spaced 1.5 m apart from each other. (See photo: the yellow stripe is to be behind your back.)
Please click on this attendance form – it is very quick to complete and with one click it is returned to us.
The attendance form will help us limit numbers to 75 persons. (We are allowed 100 persons according to COVID regulations.)
The attendance form will also relieve congestion on entering the sanctuary because less people will need to fill in the COVID regulatory register at the door.
Once again, I ask for your patience and understanding through this process. We are bound to “drop some balls” on the way. Please let us know if we do.
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Holy Week is an invitation for us to stop. It is an invitation for us to be silent and still as we “survey the wondrous cross”. The cross that reminds us of how we addictively choose death even when life is being offered to us, and the cross that reveals “anew what the Almighty can do”.
If you have struggled to stop and surrender to silence, stillness and solitude this Lent, I invite you to start again. Start again without self-condemnation or complacency. Just start again…
Mark 14-15 will be our guiding text for the week. These two chapters hold inexhaustible truth for our lives and world. Our task is to be attentive to the text in the light of our own context. By grace we may discover ourselves in the text and this in turn may help us to locate ourselves more truthfully in our own context.
Stop.
Be silent.
Be still.
And survey…
In grace, Alan
