A powerful message that we read and discussed last night at the Amida Newcastle meeting. It spoke strongly in different ways to us all:
Pastoral Letter of 9th October 2007 ::link
Dear Friends
My last pastoral letter focussed primarily upon the fact that our sangha mission seemed to be at a liminal point as we noticed that we are being drawn into a phase of growth and outreach. This prediction has been confirmed by the sequence of events over the six months since that letter was written. Our community at Narborough has grown during this period continuing a trend that started some time previously. Not everything goes perfectly, but we are clearly in a period of rising energy and, what is more important, deepening faith and practice. While what a Pureland Sangha offers may not be immediately popular due to the fact that it does not chime with current fashions either in popular spirituality or secular rationalism, those who take the opportunity to examine what it offers may be impressed with the seriousness and the spirit of love that they find in a communion springing from the earliest traditions of Buddhism and led by Amida’s grace.
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