Rector's Letters
Please find below an archive of the Rector's Letters from this and previous months.
« Return to previous page.- 12/08/09 18:25
AUGUST 2009
Dear friends,
The Irish countryside is verdant in late summer, trees are in full leaf. Stands of beech trees are nature’s cathedrals. Beeches have their ardent admirers. Gilbert White, clergyman and naturalist of the Eighteenth Century thought the beech “the most lovely of all the forest trees, with its smooth bark, its glossy foliage and its graceful pendulous boughs”.
In the opening Psalm of the Psalter, Psalm 1, the writer uses the simile of a tree to describe the “blessed”. The “blessed” delight in what the Lord teaches, are held by God’s truth, their minds nourished by God’s Word. Such people, who have this delight are like mature trees, fulsome, nourished by deep roots, constant, always yielding fruit. The way of the blessed is an alternative way to live with and for God. The Word of God is vital to this way of living. Blessedness has its tap root in the Scriptures. In our church life and individual lives we must give ourselves to the Word of God, daily to read, consider and prayerfully to seek to live out God’s way of living. Then our lives and that of our church will be like the beautiful beech, firm, fixed and flourishing.
Yours sincerely,
Ferran.