From the Rev Liz Dawes March 2025

LIZ DAWES 11-2023Rev Liz Dawes
Curate, Great Yarmouth Parish

 

This year, a late Easter means that Ash Wednesday isn’t until the 5th March, so as I write this, the whole of Lent lies before me. Rather than being a season of giving things up, I’m going to approach it as a season of developing certain disciplines in my life, which I think can be a helpful thing to do for one’s physical, mental, and spiritual health
 
For my physical health, I have joined a gym for the first time in my life, and, now I’ve got the hang of all the slightly terrifying machines, I am in the habit of going along twice a week, and thoroughly enjoying it. Trying to maintain a degree of muscle strength is really important as we get older and I’m starting to feel the benefit
 
For my mental health, you may know that I love music and I play in Great Yarmouth Brass Band. In March, we are entering the South East Regional Contest in Stevenage and are busy rehearsing for that. 18 or so bands will all play the same piece of music, one after another, and two adjudicators have to decide who played it the best, so as a band we work really hard to give the best possible performance and interpretation that we can. So, I’ve been diligently practicing my cornet as home as well as in rehearsal
 
For my spiritual health, in Lent I’m going to practice some Ignatian Spirituality which involves using all of your senses to immerse yourself in a Bible story and try to imagine what it would be like to be standing there in the story, watching it happen. It really brings them to life. So, three disciplines to take me through Lent, as we journey to Holy Week and Christ’s Passion

Revd Liz


photo courtesy of Great Yarmouth Parish
 



Rev Liz Dawes is the Curate for Great Yarmouth Team Ministry. Liz trained as a Reader in 2014 and has also worked with the CYF team at the Diocese of Norwich.  She was ordained as curate in 2023

 

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