Vicar's Message for June 2025

GOING FORWARD POSITIVELY!

This year the Feast of Pentecost, or Whit Sunday as it used to be known, is celebrated on 8th June. It is fifty days on from Easter and is the day on which Christians celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church. It is the day when we remember people of many nations gathered together and speaking in different languages when the Holy Spirit came to them and they could all understand each other.

Pentecost is perhaps a particularly good day for us all to ask for the gift of mutual understanding where we can hear and take on board what others are saying and consider how best to allow that to influence our lives to the good of ourselves and others.

June also sees what we often call the longest day when, on 21st June, people in the Northern Hemisphere see the most daylight hours. It is a day which is almost half way through our calendar year and is perhaps a good day to look back to what has happened in the previous months and how we might seek to set our best ways forward for the rest of the year. We have the opportunity of holding what we do up to the light and going forward in a way that benefits ourselves and those around us.

During the month of June I invite you to thank God for the things that He has helped you to see and understand and to look forward thinking of those positive things that you might be able to achieve.

With grace, peace and every blessing

Fr Paul

Revd Canon Paul Arthur

Priest in Charge of Par, Charlestown, Treverbyn and St Blaise