Today was the third Sunday in June and our 10 am service was Mattins. The gospel for today was the story of the casting out of devils in the land of the Gaderenes, taken from St Luke's Gospel and read in the King James version. Father Stephen pointed out in his sermon that the story perfectly complemented the first reading from Isaiah. In this story, the man called legion has many  devils cast from him into a heard of swine. Father Stephen pointed out that such behaviour as shown by this man would today be considered a sign of mental illness, but in Luke's time the understanding of possession by spirits, was a well understood idea. Mental illness and spiritual unease or illness need both medical and spiritual care for the patient to recover.
The choir sang' Turn thy face from my sins ' by Thomas Attwood as the anthem.

There was coffee after the service.

We are all greatly saddened to hear of the death of our dear friend Hans Florin, there will be a memorial service for Hans on July 7th at 11 am.