“On Thursday this week, which was International Women’s Day, a message tweeted from the women on hunger strike at the Yarls Wood immigration detention centre included the words:

“We feel voiceless, forgotten and ignored. We needed a voice and more importantly we needed someone to listen. We needed to be reminded that we are human beings because trust us when we say most of us are so dehumanised by this process of detention and the way we are treated (…), that you start to forget.””

A sermon from Revd Katherine Hedderly, delivered on the Fourth Sunday of Lent / Mothering Sunday.

Readings for this service: 1 Samuel 1. 20-end; Colossians 3. 12-17; Luke 2. 33-35