St Alban’s and Rainbows!
Posted on Wednesday 2nd July, 2008
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On Sunday 22 June we celebrated St Alban´s Day with a lot of colour! In the main Sunday service the children of the Sunday School enacted the story of St Alban, of his hospitality towards the priest on the run, his courage and his eventual martyrdom for his new Christian faith. Then Mark, the Chaplain, spoke to the children and congregation about courage today and told everyone about Desmond Tutu and his bravery in standing up for what he believes. He cracked two eggs in a bowl to show that a brown one and a white one are exactly the same inside – and so it is with human beings. He recalled Tutu’s expression that we are the “rainbow children of God”, our beauty only fully comes out when all our differences are held together in a sign of hope for the future. To illustrate our rainbow nature he took off his red chasuble and put on a rainbow coloured one, given him 15 years ago by his former Vicar. It dazzled the congregation!
Afterwards over a hundred people went to St Alban´s House for a delicious lunch.
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