Christ is risen ! 

The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia !

Easter Day service of Holy Communion will be streamed by the Ballymacelligott community alert at 11am, Many thanks to Fionnan Fitzgerald and the community alert for all their work for the Ballymacelligott community.

The Jerusalema dance was recorded in the grounds of St Johns by Jane and Zac Boyle who did amazing work to show our beautiful churches from a dimension that many of us have never seen before.

It was coordinated by Janet Slye and the initial suggestion to perform it came from Linda Woods as a means of bringing a bit of light relief during these times.

Our concern was that it would be recorded safely and according to public health guidelines. It received almost 2000 views and many positive responses. Thank you to all who participated in this activity.

I am sure that many of you will have remembered Rev Ken and Kathryn Lewis and their daughter Caroline who lived in Tralee prior to 2008 before moving to the UK. Mail for Kathryn kept arriving at the parish office and I wanted to get it to her so that she could notify them of her new address. Following a conversation, I discovered that her daughter Caroline has since been ordained in the Church of England. So, thanks to google search I discovered that she is a curate in Southwark Diocese in St Alfege parish in Greenwich and about to become Rector of her first parish. We wish Caroline well in her ministry.

I sometimes look at other services on Sunday and I tuned into Fannlobus, Dunmanaway for the first time in a long time and as I watched I noticed a note at the bottom of the screen which said Kerry Farmer to be interviewed during the service, who was it but our own Robert Hoffman from Anascaul who was interview by the Rev Cliff Jeffers on the trip that both Robert and David Tough made to Kenya three years ago. Rev Cliff interviews someone every week during the service and Robert was suggested by his good friend Sam Jennings who is a Reader in Dunmanway.

Congratulations to Alice Mason who celebrated her 99th birthday recently, she is now in her 100th year and we rejoice that she enjoys such good health.

Congratulations to Rev Robert and Vera Warren on the birth of their granddaughter in Dublin.

Newslink and the Gazette are now available for the month of April and thank you to Rhona and Sandra for looking after their distribution.

Many thanks to you for your continuing faithfulness and generosity to the parish collections.   Contributions can still be made by cheque or electronically or by delivering/posting them to our treasurers Belinda and Phyllis or can be placed through the office door on Saturdays between 11 and 3 or when the church gates are open for the School. If you need any information, please contact our Treasurers or The Rector.

Hopefully our next newsletter will have news of a return to public worship, until then worship will continue online.

Easter is indeed a special time of year. The Easter message is one that gives us hope and a timely lift. We have our difficult moments, we receive difficult news and  we carry burdens, darkness, hurts, pain and disappointments. We're not on our own, every single person carries these. But the Easter message reminds us, that right in the middle of them, there is a promise of new life, new beginnings and a sense of hope and promise.

Without Easter we would have absolutely nothing but with Easter we have indeed everything. We ask God’s many blessings on each of us this Easter.

This Easter be a source of hope to another,