May 2025 Message from Rev. Gavin Carpenter
Dear Friends, Richard Rolle, a 14th Century English Christian, wrote, ‘for to love and to be loved is the sweetest activity of all human life’. Rolle was a man of prayer, a lover of God in an age of anxiety. Despite the harshness of Medieval English life Rolle’s faith was captivated by love; the love of God and a love for God. Love is the deepest human need, more vital than bread and water, the body may perish from lack…