Text Box: I wear reading glasses now. Without them, as they say in New York, “forget about it.” I keep ‘em all over the house, and I’m not fussy about how stylish they look. What I have noticed is how smudged they become over time. They need to be cleaned on a regular basis or what I read is blurred and just enough out of focus to be annoying. Life gets messy, too. Things can get out of focus, and we need to do a little cleaning to remove the buildup that obscures our vision. That’s how I look at Lent. A much needed opportunity to examine the smudges that have built up over time that need to be wiped clean through a little effort on my part and the saving help of God’s amazing grace. When it comes to the sins that have overshadowed my life as I have aged, I wonder how well I see them Text Box: anymore. It’s easy to get used to all the smudges of our lives and give ourselves a free pass. Rose MacAulay, who returned to the Church of England in a passionate way before her death, captures the honest reality of not really wanting to deal with our faults and the consequence of that avoidance. In her brilliant masterpiece, “The Towers of Trebizond,” which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (the British Pulitzer) for fiction in 1956, the central character puts it thus: “I do not really want to be saved from my sins, not for the time being. It would make things too difficult and too sad. I am getting to a stage when I am not quite sure what sin is, I’m in a kind of fog, drifting about without clues, and this is liable when you go on Text Box: and on doing something, it makes a confused sort of twilight in which everything is blurred, and the next thing you know you may be stealing or anything, because right and wrong have become things you do not look at, you are afraid to, and it seems better to live in a blur. Then come the times you suddenly wake up, and the fog breaks, and right and wrong loom up through it, sharp and clear like peaks of rock, and you are on the wrong peak and know that, unless you can manage to leave it now, you may be marooned there for life and ever hereafter.” Lent is a time to wake up, to see beyond the fog of life in which everything Over for more….. Text Box: Rectors Report I Can See Clearly Now Text Box:

The Messenger
Text Box: March 2010 50th anniversary Music Corner Volunteers Greetings Note of Thanks Text Box: Inside this issue: Text Box: The Church of St. Andrew the Apostle

50th anniversary

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Music corner, office

Notes, St. Patty’s Day

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Greetings, New-

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Thank You

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Volunteer committees 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Holy Week Schedule

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