Ice Saints

Since the Country Life article some have suggested to me if I would develop writing more of the experience of rural ministry. So here we are in the middle of the old calendar of Ice Saints 11-13 May. In Europe these days are judged to be highly dangerous to farmers and growers as they can be prone to attack from the tail of winter in the form of frosts, deadly to tender plants, shoots and blossom. As farmers in the UK are recovering from the coldest of March weather when sheep were buried in snow drifts especially in the north of Wales, let us pray for them and join in our prayers to invoke the protection of St. Pancras and the Ice Saints to help keep away the frosts which will devastate yields and wipe out fruit crops if too severe. It was hovering just above freezing here last night, we await these next days in hope that farm incomes and the food production so necessary to our country and the world

may be spared the effects of ice...

• Saint Mamertus, Patron of 11 May, died 474 AD Archbishop. Pray for us.....
• Saint Pancras, Patron of 12 May, died 304 AD aged just 14 Martyr. Pray for us...
• Saint Servatius, Patron of 13 May, died 384 AD Bishop and Martyr. Pray for us...