Welcome to the Parish of Modbury and Golden Grove

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By the third Sunday of Lent, the spiritual journey often becomes less about ideas and more about reality. What begins with intention slowly uncovers something more immediate and more human: our thirst.

 

In the wilderness, Israel discovers how fragile faith can feel when basic needs go unmet. InSamaria, a woman arrives at a well at noon, carrying not only a  water jar but the weight of her story. In both places, the deeper question surfaces: Is the Lord among us or not?

 

This week’s readings invite us to notice what we reach for when life feels dry. We know physical thirst; we also know the thirst of anxiety, disappointment, loneliness, overwork, and longing for reassurance. We try to quench it with achievement, control, distraction, or approval — yet the sense of depletion often returns.  Into that reality, Christ sits at the well and asks for a drink. It is a simple request that opens a profound encounter. He does not shame the thirsty. He does not dismiss the questions. Instead, he speaks of living water — not a quick fix, but a spring within, a deeper source of life. Lent is not about pretending we are strong. It is about coming honestly to the well.

 

The good news of this Sunday is that the One who offers living water meets us  there — not once we have solved our thirst, but precisely in the midst of it.

As we continue Turning Toward the Light, we are invited to bring our real questions, our real needs, and our real longing — trusting that grace is not rationed, but generously poured out.​

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Easter services. 

Maundy Thursday, 3rd April 7.00pm

Good Friday, 4th April 9.00am

Easter Sunday 5th April 9.00am

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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

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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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