Bishop's Management Group Letters

Bishop’s Management Group letters are sent approximately once a month to the clergy, churchwardens, lay ministers, diocesan and cathedral staff, they are included in your monthly Peterborough Diocesan News distribution.

They are mainly informative, may include policy announcements, or raise discussion on strategic and longer-term issues. Here is the most recent letter, earlier letters are linked below.

BISHOP’S LETTER 24 17 December 2024

Dear Friends,

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

There is a lot of ‘watching over’ in the Christmas story:

Joseph watching over Mary
Mary watching over her first-born
Shepherds watching over their sheep
Kings watching over stars
Stars watching over kings

And overseeing all is God, who holds the overarching picture and shelters all under his outstretched arm. The hand that rests on Mary’s shoulder is God’s. The life-giving heat that flows from the shepherds to the sheep is God’s. The deep love that Mary bestows on her newborn son is God’s.

This Christmas, God watches over us, he sees us and beckons us to see afresh his love made flesh on earth in the form of a tiny baby. As you celebrate, I pray that you may know his presence, his care and his love more deeply.

And the word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory

With my prayers and best wishes,