Welcome to St Andrew's Anglican Church Brighton
A Message from the Vicar
Holy Pascha!
In the life of the church we are now observing the season of Easter.
In English, we use the name (Easter) of the primitive goddess of light
and spring to denote this season of the church’s life.
But our brothers and sisters of the Eastern Orthodox tradition
use the term Pascha to denote this season. The word Pascha comes
from pesach, the Hebrew word for Passover. The Paschal Feast of
the Resurrection ties together God’s whole plan of salvation from
the earliest beginnings in the Old Testament, right up to
the Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord, and the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Great Vigil of Easter (held at St. Andrew’s at 6 am on Easter Day) rehearses all this history for us. We hear how the Hebrews’ Passover is fulfilled and completed in Jesus’ own passing over from death to life eternal.
As a parish we seek to live the life of the resurrection day by day. We are a parish looking forward into a future where we are confident that Christ is present.
In our present life we are seeing the fruits of this confidence with seekers regularly coming to our church, a growing youth group (YEP), older members of the congregation forming valuable community, and younger families attracted to our Kids at Church (K@CH) program.
St Andrew's has been serving the Bayside community since 1842 and we are blessed with wonderful facilities that aid us in our mission. St Andrew's is seen as the community's church and so we host many baptisms, weddings, funerals for the local community and those further afield.
May you with all the saints of God be continually blessed by God.
The Reverend Kenyon McKie, Vicar