Many people think of Christmas as the celebration of the Incarnation of Christ, but really that Feast is just a sequel to the real Feast of the Incarnation, which is the Annunciation. 

Let me tell you something about Lent.  Lent, seriously approached, is a drag.  

It has rightly been said that much of contemporary religion, and especially much of evangelical protestantism, is a religion of the mind.  Such systems are all about what you believe, and much less about what you do or avoid doing.  Many of them, in fact, teach that there is really nothing one can do to lose one’s salvation (“Once saved, always saved” was one of the mantras of my Baptist upbringing).

I’m very grateful to begin my work as Priest-in-Charge at St. Hilda’s.  I’ve been in and out of the parish as a visitor for many years and have seen it go through so many changes.