Bethany Group Visits St Wenna Flower Festival

​For the Bethany Group meeting in October, several ladies from the group visited the Anglican Church of St Wenna, Morval {between Liskeard & Looe} to see the flower and craft festival themed ‘Community Life’. One of our parishioners and Bethany Group member did a floral display representing unity of all people, all Christian communities plus other faiths and no faith. Four small arrangements represented our four Catholic Churches {Liskeard, Saltash, Torpoint and Sclerder} around a large arrangement. This proved very popular, and several members returned over the few days it was on to see it again. Also, others from our church in Liskeard who had not been able to go on the Thursday afternoon the group went visited St Wenna. St Wenna is a beautiful little church down a country lane in the middle of nowhere. This allows the church to be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The church warden explained how it was important to keep the church open and St Wenna was not going to be the sixth church closed; when a young mother had lost her baby and wanted to find a church to pray and sit quietly for an hour. She had tried 5 churches, and all were closed St Wenna was the last one she tried and found it open. How long the grief-stricken mother stayed in the church she did not know it could have been minutes or hours, but words could not express the relief and spiritual assistance she gained from visiting the church.