The RCB, www.rcb.ireland.anglican.org, is the principal trustee body for the Church of Ireland. It holds a substantial portfolio of funds and properties in trust on behalf of the RCB and on behalf of parishes, dioceses and other trust funds of the Church of Ireland throughout the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

·       General reception duties.

·       Answering and redirecting phone calls and answering general queries.

·       Maintenance of booking system for meeting rooms.

·       Arranging courier deliveries and collections.

·       Scanning and distributing post.

·       Uploading information to the Church of Ireland website.

·       Providing administrative support to other departments.

·       Proof reading documents.

·       Such other tasks as may be assigned from time to time by line manager.

Education, experience and competencies

Education & training

Essential

·       Leaving certificate or equivalent.

Desirable

·       Qualification in office administration, customer service or other relevant discipline.

Experience

Essential

·       At least 3 years’ experience working in a busy office environment.

Desirable

·       Experience of working in a role covering the main duties and responsibilities of this position.

Knowledge & skills

Essential

·       Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Other

Essential

·       Willing to work flexibly.

·        Excellent verbal communication skills.

·       Able to work in Ireland.

The RCB reserves the right to amend these criteria for the purposes of shortlisting.  Any amendments to the criteria will be applied equally to all candidates.

Terms and Conditions of Appointment:

Appointment: This is a permanent position.

Hours of work:  Part–time, 5 full days per fortnight.

Location:  Based in Church House, Rathmines, Dublin.

Applications

To apply please send your CV to recruit@rcbcoi.org by 4th May 2026.

The election took place following a special Dublin Diocesan Synod which was held online on Friday March 27 2026. Voting was open to Dublin clerical members of Synod and votes were cast by postal ballot which closed on Monday evening last, April 20.

David was elected to fill the vacancy which arose as a result of the retirement of the Revd John Tanner, formerly Rector of Tullow. The Honorary Secretaries serve on both Diocesan Synods and Diocesan Councils.

Declaring the result of the election, the Archbishop of Dublin, Archbishop Michael Jackson said: “We wish the Revd David White well in the work ahead”.

We then visited the latest addition to the cathedral complex, the newly constructed octagonal chapel known as the Good Faith Chapel. The cathedral’s newest worship space will afford the community an extended opportunity for prayer, contemplation, worship and education with the aim being to accommodate worship in many forms and configurations. The chapel will contain a movable altar and chairs—designed especially for the space by Luke Hughes—while the roof boasts an oculus, a 20–foot–wide clear glass, bowed window to provide an unobstructed view of the sky and to be ‘an eyepiece to the heavens’, to use Dean Samuel’s words. Five large LED screens will adorn the walls with digital content, specifically crafted for each liturgical event or season. The chapel floor will be carpeted with a custom–made labyrinth design. The chapel is scheduled to open in the summer of 2026, and we were delighted to view this space—without its furnishings—a few weeks ahead of its official dedication.

The Dean preached at the two Sunday morning eucharists in St Philip’s cathedral on Sunday 1 March. Between the two celebrations, members from both congregations gathered for an informal discussion about religious faith in Ireland and the US, which included time for Dean Dermot to reflect on his own faith journey and our work in Dublin. This was followed by a question–and–answer session, and many who gathered spoke about their Irish connections and how much they valued their links with Ireland. As precentor, I was also able to share some pieces about my life, faith journey and work at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

Monday was spent in preparation for the EPN conference and flying from Atlanta to Charlotte. We travelled to the EPN conference hotel on the morning of Tuesday 2 March and were quickly met by one of the conference organizers especially tasked with looking out for ‘our friends’ – the two Irish priests! We set about preparing our Christ Church Cathedral display stand (or booth, to use the American conference term). The Dean had brought two suitcases of literature, books and souvenirs, all of which we arranged to attract attention. Offering assistance to us throughout this endeavour was the Revd Donald Fishburne, who has preached in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and was a past president of the EPN conference. Donald is now involved with organising pilgrimage tours from the USA to Ireland, mainland Europe and the Holy Land. Tuesday was designated a pre–conference day and soon the hotel was filled with over 850 delegates from all over the Episcopal Church, both clergy and lay workers. Our Christ Church stall quickly attracted the attention of the delegates, partially because of the quality and quantity of our ‘freebies’ or ‘merch’ on offer and the fact that our cathedral is about to celebrate our 1,000th birthday in 2028. Many of those who stopped to chat could barely comprehend that a building could be so old and stopped to say how delighted they were to welcome the Irish delegation.

The next few days were a bit of a proverbial blur—early morning starts, endless conversations, networking opportunities, questions answered—all done with the best of Irish charm and wit! We attended some of the main conference sessions also, the highlight of which was the interviewing of Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe by a celebratory television presenter. Primarily, though, we were there to bring the message of Christ Church and the forthcoming millennium to the American church and this we did to the very best of our ability. New friendships were forged, contacts made and we came away from the conference feeling that we did everything possible to spread the news we had to tell. We were delighted to meet representatives of the Church in Ghana, the Compass Rose Society, the Episcopal Theological Colleges, Publishing Houses, the Friends of the Anglican Pilgrim Centre in Santiago, the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion Office, Luke Hughes, Ecclesiastical Church Furnishers, and representatives of many of the Episcopal parishes, both clergy and laity.

On Saturday 7 March we travelled to St Alban’s Church, Davidson to meet with the Revd Carmen Germino and her family. St Alban’s is the home of the Homeless Jesus project, and the original statue is situated outside the main gates of the church. Carmen and her family welcomed us as old friends and the time spent with them in her beautiful church was deeply profound. Carmen’s husband Matt then sang for us the Homeless Jesus hymn which Carmen had written and which we vowed we would take back to Christ Church with us. It was beautifully sung by our own choir on Sunday 15 March.

On Sunday 8 March, the Dean preached at the two celebrations of the Eucharist in Christ Church, Charlotte and spoke also at their Sunday Faith Forum. I met with the contemporary music group and enjoyed getting to know the team and their work involving the parish’s contemporary worship. Christ Church is a large parish with two worship spaces that include the original parish church and a modern–purpose worship centre. On a Sunday morning, two services take place at the same time, one in each of the worship spaces. On any given Sunday there is also a weekly Bible study, Sunday brunch, spiritual soul care with guided prayer and journaling. Weekday activities include a Wednesday dinner buffet, Wednesday night childcare, choirs, knitting and crochet, youth activities and clergy classes. During Lent all are asked to come to the church and pray the Stations of the Cross as part of Lenten discipline. Christ Church has just opened an enormous new welcome complex with a large meeting space and catering facilities with further parish office spaces.  Parishioners are happily getting to know their latest parish property, carefully constructed and linked to the main parish buildings.

The Anglican faith is alive and well in the southern states of America and many parishes are in building and development mode. There are many projects taking place to improve and enhance the traditional role of parish and community and it is heartening to see a church live its faith both creatively and with great hope for the future. We were welcomed with open arms by all we encountered and people were delighted and indeed encouraged by our visit. Sometimes, we think of visitors to our churches as being ‘just’ tourists but there is a great appetite for something more spiritual. Spiritual tourism and pilgrimage are widely practiced by our cousins in the Episcopal Church, and it is important that we reach out and embrace this model of ministry also.

Religious faith is noticeable elsewhere outside the parish churches. It was extraordinary to walk into the Barnes & Noble book shop in Atlanta’s Peachtree Road and see the enormous Christianity section—rows upon rows of Bibles, commentaries, Christian books, and resources—far more than ever carried by Dublin’s religious bookshops. In the Atlanta airport bookshop were revolving carousels complete with mindfulness colouring books themed around the parables and the Psalms. Religiosity and faith is alive and well, and it is lived in everyday life and experience—certainly no risk of offending anyone with a ‘God bless’ or ‘Bless you’!

The Dean and I flew home on Monday 9 March and arrived back at 08:30 on Tuesday.

Trinity Monday is when Trinity College Dublin celebrates the announcement of new Honorary Fellows, Fellows and Scholars of the College. The ceremony is one of the oldest and most colourful at Trinity College and refers back to the foundation of Trinity College in 1592, as a corporation consisting of the Provost, the Fellows and the Scholars.

The Archbishop was preaching on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his own announcement as a Scholar. The service, he said, gathered people “to praise Almighty God for our continuance in the endeavour of education, for our respect for those who at various points in the kaleidoscope of learning have reached significant attainments as Scholars and Fellows and to commend them to the future investment of their talents in the world to which we belong – for good for all”.

The purpose of citizenship is to energise a generously functioning society, Archbishop Jackson said.

“The germs of this are tended in large part in what we call the educational system. People who have been offered and who have taken educational opportunity and have had it tested at a high level of scrutiny are duty bound to invest that treasure in the society to which they belong. It is called public benefit. It is called the common good,” he stated.  

He added: “Investment in clever people requires investment by those same people in the bettering of the lives and circumstances of others. We might call it the altruism of public policy and of public service. This requires vision and courage. This requires confidence and perspective. This requires knowledge laid at the feet of others. This is its vulnerability and this is its wastefulness. In a very particular and specialized way Election to Scholarship and Fellowship tests and expresses such skills in successive individuals as The Foundation replenishes itself organically year after year on Trinity Monday and as new stones are set carefully and confidently into the fabric of the College that, many years later, still holds our affection and our admiration”.

The Archbishop highlighted both the positive and negative changes in Irish life. The readings [Genesis 28 and Ephesians 2], he said, pointed to an invitation to create a new and newly functioning single humanity, what might today be called diversity and inclusion.

“If hate speech and prejudice are the underbelly of knowledge; if weapons of mass destruction are the underbelly of innovation and science; if alienation and harassment are the underbelly of privilege and opportunity, today is a day on which we can set our face against these distortions and encourage those whose achievements we honour to make a difference,” he stated.

You can read Archbishop Jackson’s sermon in full here.

As a Trinity College Scholar of the Decades, the Archbishop was invited to the Provost’s toast after the Scholars’ Dinner on Monday evening.

Mothers’ Union All–Ireland is delighted to announce the appointment of The Revd Alistair Doyle as its new All–Ireland Chaplain for the 2026–2028 triennial.

Alistair currently serves as Rector of the Arklow, Inch, and Kilbride Group of Parishes in the Diocese of Glendalough. He brings with him a deep commitment to the work and mission of Mothers’ Union and is an active advocate within his current parish.

Prior to this, Alistair served as Curate Assistant in the Galway Group of Parishes, where he also demonstrated a keen interest in supporting and promoting the values and outreach of Mothers’ Union.

In his new role as All–Ireland Chaplain, Alistair will provide spiritual guidance and pastoral support to the President and members across the island, helping to nurture faith, strengthen community, and further the organisation’s mission of demonstrating the Christian faith in action through the transformation of communities worldwide.

In announcing his appointment at the All–Ireland Mothers’ Union Council on Saturday April 18 2026, Mrs Kay Clarke, the All–Ireland President said: ‘We are truly delighted to welcome Alistair as our new Chaplain. He follows on from The Ven Dr Stephen McBride who was a faithful pastor and Chaplain. Alistair’s heart for ministry, his encouragement of Mothers’ Union members, and his deep faith will be a source of strength and inspiration to us all. We look forward to walking alongside him in faith, hope and love.’    

Speaking about his appointment Alistair said: ‘This is a real honour. I am very excited about taking up the role of All–Ireland Chaplain and I am sure it will be a blessing to me. I look forward to what God has in store for the Mothers’ Union. In the isolating, troubled and fearful world we live in, the prayers and work of the Mothers’ Union are needed more than ever.’   

In appointing Alistair, Archbishop Michael Jackson said: ‘Alistair has always shown an infectious interest in people and is intent on facilitating their happiness and wellbeing. He is not afraid to be creative pastorally and liturgically: this capacity will also be an asset to The Mothers’ Union in Ireland.

‘Along with countless others I congratulate Mothers’ Union on 150 years of life and of commitment to family life within and beyond the church.’

Parishes throughout the dioceses are being urged to rally their hockey playing parishioners. The hotly contested Archbishop of Dublin’s Diocesan Hockey Challenge is to be revived in May.

Many will remember the glory days of the inter–parish hockey tournament which enabled parishioners to engage in a bit of good natured rivalry on the hockey pitches with the aim of winning the Archbishop of Dublin’s Diocesan Hockey Challenge Cup. The tournament last took place in 2014.

In 1995 the then Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Donald Caird, presented the Diocesan Hockey Challenge Cup for competition between parishes in the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough. 

The cup was played for by parishes with full teams and the tournament was run by Canon Gillian Wharton for many years. In recent years the cup has been languishing in the Diocesan Office.

Now the Diocesan Secretary, Ian Walshe, himself a hockey player who competed for the cup with the team from the Leixlip Union back in the day, is reviving the competition.

The competition will take place on Saturday May 23 2026 at 4.00pm in St Columba’s College over one day. It will be a mixed six–aside competition with a team consisting of three men and three women and no goalkeepers. This will be a sociable event and there will be food provided after the competition. The Dioceses would like to thank Corinthian Hockey Club for allowing their facilities to be used.

All parishes are invited to take part and are urged to put the call out for players as soon as possible. If your parish is interested in taking part, please email Ian by Friday May 15 2026 at dgsecretary@dublinchurchofireland.org.

The first tournament in 1995 was won by Leixlip Union. Other winners have included Kill O’ the Grange, Rathfarnham, Stillorgan, Delgany, Rathmichael, Glenageary, Bray, Newcastle and Dalkey. Bray won the cup when the tournament was last run in 2014.

Apart from competing for the pride of the parish, teams also aimed to avoid ‘winning’ the Archbishop’s chamber pot if they finished in last place. The current location of the chamber pot is unknown. Anyone with information can contact the Diocesan Secretary.

Organised by Dublin and Glendalough’s Directors of Ordinands, Canon Suzanne Harris and Canon Tom O’Brien, the day is designed to support those who feel a wish to serve God but are not sure where to start.

For more information and to book a place please email Tom at rector@crinken.ie or Suzanne at Suziesharris@gmail.com. All are welcome.

The Archbishop of Dublin has appointed the Revd Natasha Quinn–Thomas as Warden of Parish Readers. Natasha will work alongside the Joint Wardens of Readers, Canon Prof Anne Lodge and the Revd Conor O’Reilly, to support and develop the network of Parish Readers throughout the United Dioceses.

Natasha is Rector of Delgany in the Diocese of Glendalough.

Making the announcement, Archbishop Michael Jackson thanked Natasha for her willingness to serve and outlined the new role.

“The work of Parish Readers and of Diocesan Readers is a distinct and different commitment and opportunity to serve,” he explained. “As part of our development of support for Readers generally I have decided to create a new role specifically to do with Parish Readers and Natasha has kindly agreed to undertake this.

“Natasha will work with the two Diocesan Wardens of Readers to ensure the complementary character of both types of Readership throughout our dioceses. Much of her work in the first instance will be one of being alongside Parish Readers whose service we all value hugely,” he added.

Natasha said she was looking forward to working with Parish Readers.

“I am truly delighted to be taking on the role of Warden of Parish Readers for the dioceses. Throughout my own ministry, I have seen at first hand the faithful, generous, and often quietly transformative contribution that Parish Readers make to the life of our parishes and communities,” she commented. “I have a particular interest supporting Lay Ministry and have previously conducted research exploring how team ministries (both Clergy and Lay Ministers) can benefit parishes in Ireland.”

She added: “I am especially looking forward to getting to know Parish Readers across Dublin and Glendalough, hearing their stories, and supporting them as they continue to grow in confidence and vocation. It is a privilege to serve alongside people who give so much of themselves in service of the Gospel, and I hope to encourage and affirm that ministry through both practical and pastoral support”.

It’s in a crowded area of Nairobi that Fridah Moraa (38) lives with her 13–year–old twin boys, her daughter (25), a trainee cook, and her grandson (4). The family rents a one–room home made from corrugated metal sheets. They share toilet facilities with other families and have no running water. In these conditions, protecting her family from disease and malnutrition is a constant battle for Fridah, and one she must face alone. That’s because, in February 2025, a tragic accident took the life of Fridah’s husband. Since his heartbreaking loss, Fridah is the sole breadwinner for her family.

But thanks to the kindness of Christian Aid supporters, Fridah is overcoming poverty to feed her family and build a better future. With tools, seeds and specialist training from Christian Aid’s local partner, Beacon of Hope, Fridah is making the most of a small space in the city to grow a steady supply of fresh produce that she can cook for her family or sell on her market stall. She said: ‘Urban farming has changed my life.’

For now, the pressure for Fridah to put enough food on the table for her family has eased a little. When her market stall bustles with customers and the harvest is good, Fridah can even build savings. Because she knows her twins have ambitions and they must stay in school to realise them. That’s only going to be possible if Fridah can save money.

Fridah’s urban farm isn’t just a buffer against going to bed hungry; this tiny but mighty space holds her children’s dreams for a brighter future. She said: ‘My prayer is that I’ll be able to see them graduate from college, so they can start to be independent, maybe find an occupation, and earn money.’

EASTER DAY 2026 preacher: The Archbishop

St John 20.9: … until then they had not understood the scriptures, which showed that he must rise from the dead …

THE TEMPORAL EASTERTIDE

We began Lent in this cathedral church by singing as The Offertory Hymn on Ash Wednesday:

Forty days and forty nights …

It is to the sixth and final verse that I direct our attention this morning, Easter morning:

Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,

Ever constant by thy side;

That with thee we may appear

At the eternal Eastertide.

We have today reached the temporal Eastertide. We still await the eternal Eastertide. What we then sang in muted tone and in minor key has now been transposed into a thrilling metallic sound and into a major key. This joyful Eastertide has come. Happy Easter to you all who worship here today and who make your sacrifice of praise to God Almighty in Christ Church Cathedral wherever you have come from and to wherever you return – and also to those who join on–line.  

THE DESERT: JACOB AND JESUS

We are not yet done with the Lenten hymn, however. It has something further to offer us as a perspective on the first Easter morning. Its sombre expectation of the resurrection and of the resurrection life feeds into the first reactions and responses of Mary of Magdala, of Simon Peter and of John the beloved disciple as depicted for us in St John 20. This written account is more tentative by far than our orchestration of Easter for brilliant sound, delightful and essential to our contemporary celebration as it is and certainly ought to be. There is within it another haunting echo which connects Jacob and Jesus in ways that we might not have expected. Just listen quietly to a line from the second verse:

Stones thy pillow, earth thy bed.

The promise made to Jacob in his dream as he slept on a stone pillow in Genesis 28 is about to be fulfilled in the spreading of the news of the resurrection of Jesus to and in all of the nations of the earth: All the families of the earth will wish to be blessed as you and your descendants are blessed. (Genesis 28.14b) The deserted place – inhabited by Jacob or by Jesus – has not been abandoned. It has become the seedbed of a new life in communion with God. After all, generations of disciples of the same Jesus throughout history will go again and again. Into the desert. It will establish itself as a place of counter–cultural reassessment of principles and priorities for people of firm faith and for people of faltering faith alike. The desert where Jesus retreated during what we have institutionalized as the Season of Lent in a real sense has been transposed and transplanted to the tomb which the early–rising disciples find empty, having expected to find Jesus there – but empty because he had risen to life in and through death itself. Let us always remember that two out of three of those disciples clear off home. This was not an instant or an immediate success story. Neither they, nor we, are out of the woods just yet. Tentativeness remains our friend in the temporal Eastertide. It has much to teach us.

FERMENT OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY IN THE CATHEDRAL

Over the past few days, we have had a great deal of spiritual activity in the cathedral. On Thursday, at the Maundy Thursday Eucharist, we looked at Jesus as prophet, identifying key themes of praying, watching and listening as integral to his Messianic redefinition of prophecy as he approaches his Passion. On Friday and Saturday, the theme of priest came through strongly as we grappled with the death of God and the sacrifice of the Messiah offering atonement for sin. This follows and builds upon the institution of The Eucharist the evening before which, through time, has become the definitive gathering point for this commemoration, this memorial as the church takes up the unique connection and combination of these two events in salvation history, calling them Holy Communion with God and neighbour. Today we can begin to explore the kingship of Christ, a theme that we shall continue to explore right the way through to the Ascension, which is the continuation and the culmination of the Easter Season, before it makes way for Whitsunday – and which, of course, we will engage again on Christ the King Sunday as Trinity gracefully makes way for Advent and our year starts all over afresh. The three terms: prophet, priest and king are distilled in another hymn: How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, in a believer’s ear John Newton’s hymn of 1779. Easter is an evolving revelation of God and self as these three themes intertwine and interconnect in our own coming to terms with the risen life . It is this living risen life that permeates and infiltrates our delight in the earthly Eastertide.

PRAYER, FASTING, ALMSGIVING AND PUBLIC RELIGION

But I ask: Is there another connection that we can make particularly through the lens of St John 20 with the whole of the Season of Lent which is well and truly over – and in this sense we really have now left behind the hymn: Forty days and forty nights …? It is, to my mind, the connection of the prophet, priest and king with what set us out on this journey on Ash Wednesday. If you remember, its Gospel was not The Temptation of Jesus but an object lesson in how to do the things you might do in any case in any of the Jewish, Christian or Islamic Faith traditions, with a new urgency and a new humility by integrating the relationship of prayer, fasting and almsgiving as set out for us in St Matthew 6. They are to be integrated around the instruction not to parade your religion before others. (St Matthew 6.1) This forms part of The Sermon on the Mount. It is Jesus at his teaching best. Lent has proved to be for us all the time of enhanced discipleship.

… AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE INCARNATION

Jesus is opening up a new world full of grace and truth, as he did in his Incarnation. It is one devoid of hypocrisy and posturing and it is offered to people who had no role to play in existing and conventional religion. It is these same people who are swept onward and upward in to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday with the Messiah as they follow and festoon this donkey–king. The reimagining of prayer, fasting and almsgiving was their invitation to be part and parcel of the kingdom of heaven here on earth precisely because that kingdom is the kingdom of God, not a kingdom of human manufacturing. How can this be re–invested and re–discovered in the fragile and febrile narrative of Easter Day which offers so little in terms of majesty and yet so much in terms of future glory for us today?  

The full list in John Newton’s Hymn offers us a belonging to everything that Jesus is:

Jesus! my Shepherd, Brother, Friend,

My Prophet, Priest, and King,

My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End,

Accept the praise I bring. 

From Christmas Day, we have been dealing directly with God’s use of humble beginnings. There is every god reason for us to find the same God doing the same things on Easter Day. St John chapter 20 holds the same ingredients of salvation from below and salvation from within. This is yet another message emanating from the generous text of St John 20 which keeps on giving. The wonderful thing about Christmas and Easter is that on each occasion and in each year we can and do start all over again. As earthen vessels containing the grace of God we must do this. St John chapter 20 introduces us to the positive emptiness which we have found to be the characteristic of the Desert of Lent. Its ingredients of the earliest moments of resurrection are: grief, recognition, telling and rejoicing. These form a new community out of people and places and experiences. We are that new community of belief and belonging.  

CHRIST IS RISE HALLELUJAH!

This is the new life on Christ that we feel in our fingers and in our toes, as they say and sing somewhere else. Christ is Risen Hallelujah! And God works with our hands and our feet to bring this very particular and precious type of salvation to the whole world of his creation and recreation from this moment in 2026. What we have lived through is the recharging of kingship by prophecy and by priesthood. What we have lived through is the most colourful and the most powerful few days of the yes. We have seen retaliating replaced by redemption. We have seen darkness replaced by dawn. We have seen aggression replaced by acceptance:

Jesus said, Mary! She turned and said to him, Rabbuni! (St John 20.16)

Thomas said, My Lord and my God! (St John 20.28)

FINALLY …

St John 20 is not only the culmination of the whole of The Gospel. It is of a piece with the totality of it. Essential for centring and anchoring our faith is that there seems to be no Christmas in St John’s Gospel but Easter is Christmas fulfilled. The fragilities of the first Easter morning are essential to this movement and to this continuity. There is no fragility about The Prologue but there is fragility about The Resurrection. One disciples has kept watch all night; two disciples run the next morning to find out what the story is. The one who remains gets the most fulfilled picture. And yet at the heart of her recognition there is rejection: Do not cling to me …for I have not yet ascended to the Father. (St John 20.17) And the disciples will continue to huddle behind locked doors in Jerusalem for fear of the Jews (St John 20.19). Everywhere we turn there is a long way to go.

Our Lenten life has not been wasted. It has been essential in the almost tantric conservation of energies, in their repurposing so that we can join in the metallic resonances of a joyful Eastertide. Tomorrow is a new day. Our Lenten discipline is not wasted. We start afresh, our lives restructured and repurposed. We follow the Risen Lord into Galilee where he has gone before us … and to the ends of the earth.

St John 1.18: Mary of Magdala went to tell the disciples. I have seen the Lord! She said, and gave them his message.