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SUMMARY:Holy Communion and Junior Church
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DESCRIPTION:Holy Communion for Mothering Sunday: celebrant the Rev Tola Ba
 dejo.\n\nFirst reading: 2 Corinthians 1. 3-7\nGospel: John 19. 25-27\n\nMo
 thering Sunday is an important day in the church's year for many different
  reasons. Its observance began in the Middle Ages as a day when people wou
 ld visit their 'mother church'\, either the church in which they were bapt
 ised or their diocese's cathedral.  Nowadays\, it is seen as a reminder of
  how much we owe to our own mothers\, and of the invaluable role women pla
 y in society. At the same time\, it commemorates the women of the bible\, 
 including Mary\, and underlines the physical reality of the Incarnation\; 
 Mary had to give birth to the child Jesus\, nurse him and raise him just l
 ike any other infant. \n\nAnother reason for observing Mothering Sunday is
  the the opportunity it provides for reflection on the conventional imager
 y of our faith and on common social attitudes. While God is characterised 
 as father\, and Jesus was undoubtedly male\, there is a fine tradition in 
 the church of seeing God (in all three persons) in terms of maternal as we
 ll as fatherly qualities\, reflected here in a passage from Dame Julian of
  Norwich's 'Revelations of Divine Love':      \n\n'The mother can give her
  child to suck of her milk\, but our precious Mother Jesus can feed us wit
 h himself\, and does\, most courteously and most tenderly\, with the bless
 ed sacrament\, which is the precious food of true life … The mother can 
 lay her child tenderly to her breast\, but our tender Mother Jesus can lea
 d us easily into his blessed breast through his sweet open side\, and show
  us there a part of the godhead and of the joys of heaven\, with inner cer
 tainty of endless bliss … This fair lovely word 'mother' is so sweet and
  so kind in itself that it cannot truly be said of anyone or to anyone exc
 ept of him and to him who is the true Mother of life and of all things. To
  the property of motherhood belong nature\, love\, wisdom\, and knowledge\
 , and this is God.'
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LOCATION:Kidbrooke\, St Nicholas
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