11/05/2026
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So pleased to see the Memorial Benches for Max & Mason installed today outside St Barnsbas; a place to sit, remember and reflect in view of their legacy trees.
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Glad we played a small part of supporting this happen.
Thanks to those those who donated and helped facilitate. We hope and pray it will be a positive legacy and a place of helpful contemplation and part of transformation. ๐๐ป
๐๐ง๐๐ฎ๐๐ง๐จ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐.
Gracious, Compassionate God,
Spirit and creator of life, carrier of hope,
make your presence known among us and in this bench,
visible in the trees of life.
Enable us to be brave in our remembering,
honest in our sorrow, and open in love,
compassionate to each other.
In this place may we honour the lives of those lost.
Though they are no longer with us in body,
their memory lives on in our hearts.
We thank you for the time we us,
for their love, laughter, the blessing they gave.
May their souls rest in peace, and may we find comfort in knowing that they are forever in Your loving embrace.
Help us to cherish the moments we recall, share and carry their legacy as we reflect on them and their love.
Help us to seek not so much answers to our questions, but,
rather, the patience to stop and reflect.
Send all who sit and contemplate here your peace.
Amen ๐๐ป๐โค๏ธโ๏ธ
"For l am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:38-39
Diocese of Bristol
