So, what are you doing on Good Friday?

April 2023

It’s a bit of a challenge really isn’t it! Everything seems to be closed, even the garden centres.

A trip up to the Lake District maybe? The traffic on the M6 is quite incredible though. Perhaps you can find something closer to home, going for a walk on Good Friday is a real Lancashire tradition, and  in our part of the world there is a Good Friday tradition of churches organising walks. You might find that something has appeared behind the door, telling you of Easter events, it might include an Easter egg trail, it might include a walk to place a cross in a significant spot, not far away, it might just be a treasure hunt and hot Cross buns at the end of it, it might be going for a walk indide your local church, following the stations of the cross, as they’re called, anyone can go and take part. As we approach the Easter weekend and perhaps plan what we’re having to eat, if we can fit it in after breakfast of chocolate! may you also find something that really nourishes, the bread of life and the water, from which you will never be thirsty again.

With all good wishes

The Rev'd  Andrew Wilkinson MA

Vicar & Area Dean of Garstang