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Castleford Team Parish
July &
August 2013
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CLERGY Rector:
Fr. Michael Wood, 01977 518127 The Rectory, 15 Barnes Road, Castleford WF10 5AA [email protected]
Team Vicar:
Fr. Mark Watkins, 01977 511659 The Vicarage, St Michaels Close, Castleford WF10 4EY [email protected]
Asst. Curates:
Fr Paul Atkinson SSC, 01977 512404 The Vicarage, Churchfield Lane, Glasshoughton WF10 4BP [email protected]
Fr Kevin Greaves, 07826 477763 [email protected]
Polish Priest: Fr. Greg Ruszczynski, 07842 883648
Parish Reader: Phillip Godfrey 01924 267698
Lay Pastoral Minister: Mrs Lynda Maw 01977 518078
Parish Office: (Enquiries for Baptisms) Saturdays at 10.00-10.30am at All Saint’s Church, Castleford.
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The Rector’s Letter
Dear Friends,
Not that I know from personal experience but when a mother see a new baby for the first time there is what can best be described as an ‘ahw’ moment as she looks down upon the new little life. When the Rector looks upon a new curate at the moment of ordination there is a similar sort of feeling as he sees the new little life which God has brought into being. It must be said that the actual ‘ahw’ doesn’t last as long between the Rector and curate as it does between mother and child but it is there though.
So this month we welcome Fr. Kevin at the start of his new ministry and pray for God’s blessing upon his work here. Fr. Kevin will be a Deacon for his first year here. That means there are some things he can do and there are some he cannot do. Some of the things he can do are preach, teach, baptize, take Communion to the sick and officiate at funerals. Some of the things he cannot do are preside at Mass, hear confession and give absolution and officiate at weddings because all of these things involve giving a blessing and deacons don’t give blessings, that privilege comes after he is priested next year.
I know I have said this many times before but being present at the start of a new ministry is always the time when most priests take stock of their own callings and ministries. There are lots of books about being a Deacon, Priest or Minister, whichever word the person writing the book has chosen to use. Some of the books I have about vocations are now getting a bit on the old side; one of them was first printed in 1897 though I have the second edition published in 1910.
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In that time much has changed, of course it has because in 116 years, life has changed and yet for all the changes one thing remains the same; if God calls you cannot escape. You may try to avoid, ignore, put it to the back of your mind but sooner or later God will have His way.
Some of the books try to tell you how to do it – the what and the how but somehow those books are never very good because vocation is not about doing but about being and if any clergyperson ever tells you they know how to be a deacon or a priest you have my permission to poke them in the eye because they are being vain. When a person is ordained they spend the remainder of their ministry not just working out but also living out their vocation, in other words they spend the rest of their ministerial life trying to work out just how to be what it is God has called them to.
So welcome Father Kevin and welcome to Father Kevin, he has much ahead of him and all of it is exciting.
With my love and prayers,
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ARCHBISHOP BACKS IF CAMPAIGN TO “END GLOBAL HUNGER IN OUR LIFETIMES”
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has supported the recent launch of a campaign to encourage world leaders to tackle world hunger.
The IF campaign is made up of more than 200 charities, faith groups and organisations. The campaign is urging G8 leaders to take big steps that will tackle the global injustice of hunger. Referring to “the opportunity we have to end hunger in our lifetimes”, the Archbishop said: “The only way that’s going to happen is by mass movements of people, like yourselves, getting together”.
The Archbishop went on: “In many parts of the world, the churches are the most effective networks, through which generosity from other people can be used without actually displacing or diminishing the work of the people on the ground locally - local people developing their own countries.”
In his message the Archbishop reflected on issues of aid, tax and transparency on the G8 agenda. His prayer would be for worldwide commitment “to enabling people to be self-sustaining, so that global hunger can be ended in our lifetimes.” At present, two million children around the world die each year from hunger, and one in eight people do not have enough to eat. More details from: www.enoughfoodif.org
ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE
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Pam Ankatel-Jones has offered to co-ordinate call 01977 554952.
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The Rev Dr Gary Bowness continues his tongue-in-cheek letters from ‘Uncle Eustace’…
ON WHY WE DON’T BOTHER TO LOCK THE CHURCH
The Rectory, St. James the Least
My dear Nephew Darren
Since I happened to be in your area last week, I tried to call in at your church, and was sorry to find it was locked and bolted, with surveillance cameras watching me.
We tend to be a little more relaxed about matters of security. The key to the medieval lock was lost some time during Queen Victoria’s reign and never replaced. How someone managed to misplace a foot long piece of cast iron, weighing about 10 pounds is a mystery. If it had fallen out of someone’s pocket, it would certainly have broken their foot. Ever since, no one has bothered with locking the door – which makes me wish our burglars last year had thought of trying it, before wasting so much energy smashing a stained glass window when they visited in the early hours one morning. On the other hand, were the key still in use, I should probably be arrested these days for carrying an offensive weapon.
As with most rural churches, keys which open just about everything in the village are hidden in various parts of the church. The vestry key is under my seat cushion, the organ key under a vase on the altar, the church hall key on top of the hymn book cupboard, and Miss Simpson‘s spare front door key inside the font. I have never been certain whether the latter is there for safety, or as a general invitation. I am sure someone could usefully produce a book suggesting the many places keys are likely to be found secreted in churches for the use of vergers, flower arrangers, cleaners – and thieves wanting to save themselves time and effort.
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I suspect that the burdened look that many urban clergy wear is not because they are weighed down with parish troubles, but because they are obliged to carry with them a superfluity of keys needed to negotiate every door in church, hall, school and vicarage. And why is there always one for which no one has any idea what it opens?
The only occasion I have ever thought it would be useful to be able to lock a church is when you have a party of visitors inside. So often, on hearing the words “let us pray” or the start of an appeal for funds, they bolt for the door.
Your loving uncle, Eustace
HOW SAFE ARE YOU ONLINE? UK Communications watchdog, OFCOM, has warned that internet users are risking their online security. In Ofcom's "Adults' Media Use and Attitudes Report 2013" it found that 55% of UK adults use the same password to access internet sites and 26% use birthdays or names as passwords. However, 62% say that they protect their Wi-Fi internet connections, up from 52% in 2011. 35% of 55-64 year-old internet users now have a social networking profile (up from 24% in 2011: and the average adult has 237 social network friends. Average 16-24 year-olds claim 352 friends, three times as many as those aged over 45. 50% of adults with a profile, visit social networks more than once a day, with 9% checking more than 10 times a day. The average Internet user spends 17 hours per week online.
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CHURCH COMMISSIONERS ANNOUNCE ANNUAL RESULTS FOR 2012
The Church Commissioners have recently published their full Annual Report and Accounts for 2012, announcing a 9.7 per cent total return on their investments during the year and confirming the fund’s strong long-term performance. The Commissioners' fund is a closed fund, taking in no new money, and has performed in line with or better than its target return of RPI +5.0% p.a. and its comparator group over the past, three, 10 and 20 years. Andrew Brown, Secretary to the Church Commissioners, said: “2012 has proved to be a better year for markets following 2011’s challenging environment and we have performed very satisfactorily. The fund grew by 9.7%, comfortably exceeding the inflation plus five per cent return target. The Assets Committee made wise decisions, keeping away from certain longer term bonds. Within equities our managers significantly outperformed the market and our residential and rural property holdings performed strongly. “Much of our expenditure, representing 15 per cent of the cost of the Church’s mission, is devoted to clergy pensions, but in partnership with the Archbishops’ Council we aim also to invest in Church growth and in maintaining a nationwide Christian presence, identifying areas of need and opportunity in all contexts.” The Commissioners - who contributed nearly £210 million in 2012 towards the cost of supporting the mission of the Church of England – manage assets which were valued at £5.5 billion at the end of 2012. More than half of their current distributions meet the cost of clergy pensions earned up to the end of 1997. The generous giving of today’s parishioners accounts for around £700m of the Church’s annual budget.
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CROSSWORD Across
1 Proverbs describes her as being ‘of noble character’ (Proverbs 31:10) (4) 3 ‘Shall we go up again — — against the Ben-jamites, our brothers?’ (Judges 20:23) (2,6) 8 A descendant of Shem (Genesis 10:28) (4) 9 ‘Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my — ’ (Luke 14:27) (8) 11 Resentment (Ephesians 4:31)(10) 14 In Cain(anag.)(6) 15 ‘Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to—’ (Psalm 139:6) (6) 17 Intense (1 Thessalonians 4:5)(10) 20 Third Order of the Roman Catholic Church(8) 21 ‘At midnight the cry rang out, “Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to — him”’ (Matthew 25:6) (4) 22 ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in — ’ (2 Co-rinthians 12:9) (8) 23 ‘As the — pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God’ (Psalm 42:1) (4)
Down
1 Nickname of popular First World War chaplain, the Revd. G.A. Studdert Kennedy, — Willie (8) 2 Occasion of religious joy (Lamentations 2:22) (5,3) 4 ‘We three kings of — are’ (6) 5 Allegation or charge (Jude 9) (10) 6 Kind (1 Chronicles 12:33) (4) 7 ‘Open your — and look at the fields!’ (John 4:35) (4) 10 Also known as the Feast of Lights (John10:22)(10) 12 Area that saw the healing of two demon - possessed men and a herd of pigs stampeding to their deaths (Matthew 8:28) (8) 13 Forebear(James2:21)(8) 16 Name given to the first two books of the Apocrypha(6) 18 Esau sold his birthright for this (Genesis25:34)(4) 19 Rear(anag.)(4) 19 ‘All these—come from inside and make a man “unclean”’ (Mark 7:23) (5) 20 ‘Let us rejoice and be glad and — him glory!’(Revelation19:7)(4)
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PUZZLES WORDSEARCH Do your neighbours borrow things from you? Suppose they started banging on your door at midnight, wanting to borrow bread? The man in the parable in Luke 11 did just that – a friend of his had arrived unexpectedly and needed to be fed. The neighbour, as you might imagine, was not best pleased! His whole family had been in bed asleep, and now everybody was awake again. Yet some neighbours just won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, and so the man got his bread in the end. Jesus told this parable not to encourage us to wake up our neighbours at midnight, but to encourage us to persist in asking God for things. He promised: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” So – are you in need? Start praying – even at midnight! And leave your neighbours in peace.
Answer, Ask, Asleep, Bed, Bread, Door, Family, Find, Friend, God, Journey, Knock, Midnight, Neighbour, No, opened, parable, praying, Promise, Seek & Unexpected.
As usual the remaining letters spell out a bible passage. (See page 25)
SUDOKU EASY INTERMEDIATE
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CALENDAR JULY
Saturday 6th Coffee Morning at Hightown 10.00am-Noon
St Paul’s Summer Fayre 2.00pm-4.00pm
Saturday 13th St Michael’s Summer Fair (see page 12) 2.00pm-4.00pm
Sunday 14th Baptism Party for all those Baptized over the past year—St Michael’s 2.30-4.00pm
Wednesday 24th PCC Meeting at Hightown 7.00pm AUGUST
Tuesday 6th Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus Sung Mass at Castleford 7.30pm
Thursday 15th The Feast of the Assumption of Mary (Mary’s Heavenly Birthday) Sung Mass at Castleford 7.30pm
Saturday 24th Hightown Summer Fair 2.00pm-4.00pm
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE COM-MUNION AT HOME?
IF YOU ARE HOUSEBOUND OR UNABLE TO COME TO CHURCH, PLEASE CONTACT ONE OF THE CLERGY AND THEY WILL MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOU TO TAKE COMMUNION AT HOME. OUR MINISTRY TEAM RECOGNISES THAT THIS IS
AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF MINISTRY AND IS KEEN TO HELP.
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READINGS FOR JULY 7th July - The Sixth Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 9) Isaiah: 66: 10-14; Psalm : 66: 1-8; Galatians: 6: 1-16; Luke: 10: 1-11, 16-20; 14th July - The Seventh Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 10) Deuteronomy: 30: 9-14; Psalm: 25; 1-10; Colossians: 1: 1-14; Luke: 10: 25-37; 21st July - The Eighth Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 11) Genesis: 18: 1-10a; Psalm: 15; Colossians: 1: 15-28; Luke: 10: 38-end; 28th July - The Ninth Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 12) Genesis: 18: 20-32; Psalm: 138: Colossians: 2: 6-19; Luke: 11: 1-13;
READINGS FOR AUGUST 4th August - The Tenth Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 13) Isaiah: 66: 10-14; Psalm : 66: 1-8; Galatians: 6: 1-16; Luke: 10: 1-11, 16-20;
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READINGS FOR AUGUST (CONTINUED)
6th August - The Transfiguration of our Lord (W) Daniel: 7: 9-10, 13-14; Psalm : 97: 2 Peter: 1: 16-19; Luke: 9: 28-36;
11th August - The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 14) Deuteronomy: 30: 9-14; Psalm: 25; 1-10; Colossians: 1: 1-14; Luke: 10: 25-37;
15th August - The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (W)
Isaiah: 61: 10-end Psalm: 45: 10-end Galatians: 4: 4-7 Luke: 1 46-55 18th August - The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 15) Genesis: 18: 1-10a; Psalm: 15; Colossians: 1: 15-28; Luke: 10: 38-end;
25th August - The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (G) (Proper 16) Genesis: 18: 20-32;
Psalm: 138: Colossians: 2: 6-19; Luke: 11: 1-13;
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HIGH DAYS AND HOLY DAYS IN JULY
1 Henry, john & Henry Venn the younger, Priests, Evangelical Divines 1797, 1813 & 1873
3 THOMAS THE APOSTLE
6 Thomas More, Scholar and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Reformation Martyrs, 1535
11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, Father of Western Monasticism, C.550
15 Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862
16 Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099
18 Elizabeth Ferard, first Deaconess of the Church of England, Founder of the Community of St Andrews. 1883
19 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, and his sister Macrina, Deaconess, Teachers, c. 394 & c.379
20 Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, 4th century; Bartolome de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566
22 MARY MAGDALEN
23 Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373
25 JAMES THE APOSTLE
26 Ann & Joachim, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
27 Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901
29 Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Companions of our Lord
30 William Wilberforce, Social Reformer; Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson, Anti-Slavery Campaigners, 1833, 1797 & 1846
31 Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556
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HIGH DAYS AND HOLY DAYS IN AUGUST
5 Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642
6 THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD
7 John Mason Neale, Priest, Hymn Writer, 1866
8 Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221
9 Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mother’s Union, 1921
10 Laurence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258
13 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor, Teacher, 1667
14 Maximillian Kolbe, Friar, Martyr, 1941
15 THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
20 Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153
24 BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE
27 Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
28 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430
29 The Beheading of John the Baptist
30 John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688
31 Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651
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MONDAY – 5.30pm & 7.00pm – The Glasshoughton Centre, Leeds Road, Glasshoughton, Castleford. Your Consultant’s name is Jean – Tel: 0113 286 4255
TUESDAY – 6.30pm – St Joseph’s Catholic Church Hall, Pontefract Road, Castleford Your Consultant’s name is Vanessa – Tel: 01977 557843
THURSDAY – 9.30am, 5.30pm & 7.30pm – Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Powell Street, Castleford Your Consultant’s name is Caroline – Tel: 01977 793096
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CASTLEFORD PARISH HALLS CENTENARY
On Saturday 22nd June 100years of the Parish Halls was celebrated with a Coffee Morning and afternoon Tea Dance. A few photos of the festivities are included below:
Top Left & Right: Outside pictures of the Halls Left: Kenneth & Beryl Hopkinson who now live in Swillington. Kenneth was a youth leader here in his younger days. They married in All Saints some 63 years ago & came to join the celebrations.
Below Left: Parishioners enjoying a dance in the afternoon.
Below Right: Dance demonstration by the Castleford School of Dance.
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PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
CROSSWORD
WORDSEARCH
Wordsearch: Bible Phrase A new heart I will give you and put a new spirit within you
(Ezekiel 36: 26) SUDOKU
EASY SOLUTION INTERMEDIATE SOLUTION
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The Rev Dr Gary Bowness continues his tongue-in-cheek letters from ‘Uncle Eustace’… (A double dose this month as this is the August instalment. Ed.)
ON WHY IT IS SO HARD TO READ
The Rectory, St. James the Least
My dear Nephew Darren
Your suggestion that every month at clergy meetings, someone should review a book of theology they have been reading, was bound to be greeted with uneasy resistance. It would mean that the majority would have to start opening books, rather than just occasionally dusting them. Possessing books does not necessarily imply that they are ever read.
Your high church colleagues will only read the Racing News, low church members the Railway Review, liberals the Knitting Weekly and those with tendencies towards non-conformism, the Vegetarian Times. Clerical studies may be lined with books, but they are largely for effect – and to hide damp patches on the wallpaper. Anything with hard covers will have been bought with the best of intentions - but somehow the vicarage lawn or the church hall drains will have taken precedence. And from what I know of your colleague at St. Crispin’s, the only books he will buy will be to colour in.
I do try to keep up with my reading, but sleep mercifully intervenes after the first 10 minutes. On those days when I sit by my study window, so passers-by can see me deeply occupied in intellectual activity, it is most useful that my large tome on the letters of Eusebius can easily conceal an Agatha Christie inside it.
I confess that I was once gloriously put down when I tried to get one of our blue stockings interested in a new edition of a Dostoevsky novel. She replied: ‘I have never read Dostoevsky in translation.’ It only confirmed my suspicions that she had worked as a Russian spy in earlier years.
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I was hugely impressed when during the bitter cold of last winter the Earl of Stowe, whose library would comfortably contain one of our cathedrals, told me he was slowly getting through its contents of tens of thousands of volumes. It was only some time later I discovered that he meant he threw the occasional one on the fire when he was running low on wood.
No, my dear Darren, the only literary activities that will spark interest will be crosswords for the majority, or diocesan reports for the truly dedicated – with weighty tomes being used as door stops.
Your loving uncle,
Eustace
PARENT & TODDLER GROUPS & HOLIDAY CLUB ACTIVITIES
At the time of publication of this magazine the arrangements for the School Holidays were still being finalised. Due to the need for early publication as this is a combined issue for July & August it has not been possible to include details in the magazine on this occasion.
Please keep a careful eye on the Weekly Pew Sheets and the Church Notice Boards for details of activities that will take place during the school holidays.
The normal Parent & Toddler Groups meet only in term time. Any changes to this will again be notified in the Pew Sheet and/or on the notice boards.
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Please contact Karen Richardson on 07887 391423 for details.
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CHURCHWARDENS
David Field, Castleford: 01977 707120
Mavis Whitehead, St Paul’s 01977 550529
Pauline Morris, St Michaels 01977 668790
Ian Fletcher, Hightown 01977 550139
DEPUTY CHURCHWARDENS
Hilary Wilkes, Castleford: 01977 733554
Colin Maw, St Paul’s:
01977 518078
Emma J Lisle, St Michael’s
Vacant, Hightown
Our Churches in Castleford Team Parish
All Saints, Church Street, Castleford
All Saints, Lumley Street, Castleford (Hightown)
St Michael & All Angels, St Michaels Close, Castleford
St Paul the Apostle, Pontefract Road,
PARISH OFFICERS PCC Secretary: Mrs Mavis Whitehead 01977 550529 PCC Treasurer: Mr Colin Maw 01977 518078
Stewardship & Gift Aid Secretary:
Mr Arnold Randall 01977 278611
Family & Children’s Worker
Mrs Karen Richardson 01977 552524
Editor, Magazine & Pew Sheets (including Diary Dates): Andrew Goyns, 01924 898593
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Reserved for photo & caption of Fr Kevin’s ordination
SERVICES All Saints’ Castleford
SUNDAY Mass (said) 8.00am Sung Mass (except last in month) 9.30am Tuesday Mass (said) 7.00pm Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary (said) 9.30am
All Saints’ Hightown SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass 10.45am Wednesday Mass (said) 7.00pm
Saint Michael and All Angels SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass 10.45am Thursday Mass (said) 10.00am
Saint Paul’s, Glasshoughton SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass 9.30am Wednesday Mass (Said) 10.00am
LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH:
Combined Parish Mass at 10.00am - ( see diary section for venue )
FOR MAJOR SAINTS’ DAYS IN ALL CHURCHES
See diary section and weekly pew sheets For all the latest News & Information from around the Parish go to:
www.castlefordteamparish.org.uk
