Welcome to the Parish of Modbury and Golden Grove

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There is a particular kind of energy in the days just after Easter—an unsettled, almost breathless joy. It is not yet polished or resolved. It still carries the echo of fear, the confusion of the empty tomb, the sound of hurried footsteps as the women run from the grave, “with fear  and great joy,” not quite knowing what comes next. Resurrection, it turns out, is not neat. It disrupts before it reassures.

In the Gospel, the story is already contested. Even as the women bear witness to what they have seen, another narrative begins to take shape—one that explains away the miracle, that manages the risk, that tries to contain what cannot be controlled. From the very beginning, the resurrection is both proclaimed and resisted. Truth and denial grow up side by side.

And into that same unsettled space steps Peter in Acts—no longer hiding, no longer uncertain, but proclaiming with clarity: “God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified.” The resurrection is not simply an event to be admired; it is a reality that demands response. The people are “cut to the heart.” Something in them recognises that this changes everything.

The letter of 1 Peter speaks to those learning how to live in the aftermath of that change. “Prepare your minds for action,” it says. Resurrection is not only about what God has done in Christ; it is about the reshaping of a people—called into holiness, into hope, into a new way of being grounded not in perishable things, but in the enduring word of God.

So we stand, like those first witnesses, in the tension of it all—between fear and joy, between competing stories, between what has been and what is now breaking open. And the question that lingers is not simply, “Did it happen?” but “What will we do because it has?”

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Usual weekly services and activities:

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Sunday:        Holy Communion 8.00 am

                       Holy Communion 10am

Monday:       Bible Study 10.00 am 

Tuesday:       Holy Communion 8.30 am

                        Community Garden 9.30 am

                        Christian meditation 9;30-10am alternate Tuesday from

                        21 Jan 2025

Wednesday: Bible Study 10.00 am

                        Fortnightly Foodbank   10.00 am

Thursday:      Holy Communion 10.00 am

Friday:            Community Garden 9.30 am

                        

 

1st Tuesday of the month Community Garden BBQ 11.30 am

1st and 3rd Sunday of the month Bari Service 11.30 am

2nd Thursday of the month Men's Group 7.30 pm

1st Friday of the month "Come as You Are" - Women's Fellowship 10-12 ​

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