Church Officers
Church Officers
Rector: The Revd Derek A Baines – Tel: 01772 641521; E:
[email protected]
Churchwardens
Mr Eric Barker OBE JP – Tel: 614385; E: [email protected]
Mr Robert Hawthornthwaite – Tel: 612952
Churchwarden Emeritus: Mr William G Carr
PCC Secretary
Mrs Andrea Susnik – Tel: 615336; E:
[email protected]
PCC Treasurer
Mrs Barbara Wood – Tel: 617679: E: [email protected]
Deanery Synod Representatives: Mrs Jane Elphick & Mr John
Clarkson
Stewardship Recorder/Gift Aid Secretary
Mr Philip Norton – Tel: 07970 798345; E:
[email protected]
Magazine Editor
Mrs Erika Penrose – Tel: 613816. E: [email protected]
Magazine Secretary
Mrs Elsie Kirkham – Tel: 615832.
Flower Secretaries
Mrs Julie Bayldon – Tel: 613144 & Mrs Jean Aughton – Tel:
614598
Electoral Roll Secretary
Mrs Julie Tanham – Tel: 612992
Verger: Mrs Irene Pickles – Tel: 615708
Assistant Verger: Mr Stuart Tighe – Tel: 612963
Weekly Giving Envelopes: Please contact the Churchwardens.
Organisations
Sunday School – meets 10.15 in School, first three Sundays of
the month.
Leader: Mrs Kathleen Leigh – Tel: 612196. E:
[email protected]
Hoole Church Ladies’ Group – meets 7.30pm, 3rd Tuesday, in
School.
Leader: Mrs Erika Penrose. Contact details as above.
St Michael’s Men’s Fellowship – meets 7.30pm, 2nd Tuesday, in
School.
Secretary: Mr Stuart Tighe – Tel: 612963.
Friends of St. Michael’s – Caring for the fabric of our ancient
church
Chairman: Mr Eric Barker – Tel 614385.
Secretary: Mr David Turner – Tel 617485.
Social Committee – Contact: Sheila Taylor, Tel: 616850
Hoole St Michael C E Primary School
Head Teacher: Mrs Jo Duckworth – Tel: 613219.
1st St. Michael’s Hoole Scout and Guide Groups – Group Scout
Leader: Mandy Clark – Tel: 01772 305452;
E:[email protected].
Church Websites: www.hoolevillage.com and
www.hooleparishchurch.com
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The Rector’s Ramblings
The season of weddings is well and truly with us as we move
towards Harvest. People are away on holiday and the sun is shining
with just a smattering of rain so everything feels good. We must
not forget though that there are some in our community who struggle
through illness, redundancy, difficulties with relationships,
poverty and many other of life’s difficulties.
The Gospel readings at the moment are sharing the stories of
God’s love and his kingdom in the form of the parables. We are
taught to learn more about God, our journey of faith and the love
that we are given unconditionally.
As we move towards harvest we recognise the glory of God’s
creation, through our holiday breaks we see the beauty of the
countryside as we walk and rest in the middle of that creation
taking comfort in relaxing in his presence. As we do so we pray for
those who cannot enjoy these things or who cannot see the beauty
surrounding them because of illness or their ‘life state’ at the
moment.
Jesus’ use of parables helped the folk to relate their beliefs
and their own journey of faith to what they understood of everyday
life and the interpretations that we are given, both by Jesus and
by scholars, help us to relate the Gospel to others.
As we watch the world news we realise that God is suffering as
he sees what mankind is doing and we walk spiritually with those in
horrible situations.
As we enjoy the benefits of our lives and our life with Christ
we share in that suffering and bring ourselves before God in prayer
as we seek His comfort for those who suffer.
The fields look fine, everything turning golden, let’s do the
same with our lives and let our personal harvest be a closer walk
with God, trying to see the world as he does and doing what we can
to share Christ’s love with all.
We give thanks for the lives of those faithful servants who have
died recently and use those lives as examples to us on our own
journey.
Simply be the people God wants us to be walking at his side.
Your brother pilgrim,
Derek
Services for August
Saturday 2nd August
12.30 Wedding – Capps/Goodwin
3rd August – Trinity 7
9.00 BCP Holy Communion
10.30 CW Holy Communion
12.45 Wedding – Rawcliffe/Parkinson
3.00 BCP Evening Prayer
4.00 Holy Communion (Old Mill Court)
Thursday 7th August
10.15 Said Holy Communion – Revd Marc Wolverson
10th August – Trinity 8
9.00 BCP Holy Communion
10.30 Morning Prayer
12.30 Baptism
Tuesday 12th August
7.00 Service of commemoration for the commencement of Word War
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Thursday 14th August
12.00 Sullivan/Quayle wedding – Revd Sharon Baines
17th August – Trinity 9
9.00 BCP Holy Communion
10.30 CW Holy Communion – Revd John Fisher, Minister of Hoole
Methodist Chapel.
12.30 Baptism
1.15 Baptism
3.00 BCP Evening Prayer
Saturday 23rd August
Membery/Leigh Wedding
24th August – Bartholomew the Apostle
9.00 BCP Holy Communion
10.30 Family Praise
12.30 Baptism
31st August – Trinity 11
9.00 BCP Holy Communion
10.30 Family Communion
Thurs 4th September
10.15 Said Holy Communion – Revd Marc Wolverson
7th September - Trinity 12
9.00 BCP Holy Communion – Canon Tom Barnes
10.30 CW Holy Communion – Canon Tom Barnes
3.00 BCP Evening Prayer
4.00 Holy Communion (Old Mill Court). May be cancelled – see
next month’s magazine
1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays of the month
Michael’s Club, our junior church for children from toddlers to
teenagers opens at 10.15 in school and we finish the session in
church with the congregation.
Every Monday (unless advertised otherwise)
7.00 Evening Prayer
Every Thursday (unless advertised otherwise)
10.15 Said Communion service
Every month on the 3rd Saturday (unless advertised
otherwise)
3.30 Messy Church (in School)
From the Parish Registers in July
Holy Baptism “We welcome into the Lord’s Family”
ISABELLA GRACE BARNES, daughter of Daniel Eric Barnes and
Victoria Alexandra Barnes of Walmer Bridge
CHARLIE WILLIAM CLEGG, son of James Robert Clegg and Natalie
Jane Clegg of Ashton, Preston
LEAH JANET WHITELY, daughter of Carl James Whitely and Lindsey
Ann Whitely of Much Hoole
Holy Matrimony “Those whom God hath joined together”
No weddings.
The Departed “Rest eternal grant unto them”
JAMES CLIFFORD CAUNCE (interment of ashes in the churchyard)
From the Register of Services
Attendance
Communicants
Collections
June
29th
76
66
£320.44
July
6th
91
69
£466.50
13th
76
17
£524.91
Baptisms, Weddings & Funerals: £22.27
Church Flowers Rota
DateArranger
Donor
Aug3rdM Clarkson & J Smallwood
Mr & Mrs Clark
10thC Chestnutt & P Reid
Mr & Mrs Parker
17thJ Aughton & S Westell
Mr & Mrs Westell
24thH Johnson
31stJ Martland & J Wilson
Sept7thA Slater & E Kirkham
Mrs Swarbrick
Tea/Coffee Rota following our 10.30 services
Aug3rdCarole & Gill
10thAlthea & Erika
17thCarole & Gill
24thPauline – extra volunteer needed here, please!
31stBeryl & Rona
Sept7thCarole & Gill
If you are not available on the dates allocated or wish to
change the published date, please could you find a replacement or
arrange a swap.
Sidespersons’ Rota
Aug3rd9.00Rob McMurray
10.30Jean Aughton, John Aughton & Paul Johnson
3.00Clifford Orritt
10th9.00Mike Redshaw
10.30David Turner, Lisa Turner & Ted Hopkins
17th9.00Jeremy Leigh
10.30Norman Skellorn, Tom Wignall & Jock Davidson
3.00P Smallwood
24th9.00Ken Bishop
10.30Bill Carr, Peter Blakeley & Beryl Blakeley
31st9.00Rob McMurray
10.30David Turner, Lisa Turner & Ted Hopkins
Sept7th9.00Mike Redshaw
10.30Jean Aughton, John Aughton & Paul Johnson
3.00Sylvia Douglas
Readers’ Rota
If you cannot read as specified on the rota please find a
substitute and inform the churchwarden of any changes.
9.0010.303.00
Aug 3rd
---C Bamber
Genesis 32: 22-31
K LeighD Turner
Romans 9: 1-5
Rector1 Kings 10: 1-13
Acts 13: 1-13
Aug 10th
---G Slinger
Genesis 37: 1-4 & 12-28
M RedshawJ Elphick
Romans 10: 5-15
Aug 17th
---S Eckersley
Genesis 45: 1-15
J WilsonM Kirkman
Romans 11: 1-2a & 29-32
Rector2 Kings 4: 1-37
Acts 16: 1-15
Aug 24th
---C Dalgleish
Acts 5: 12-16
S TigheS Dalgleish
1 Corinthians 4: 9-12
Aug 31st
---J Dewhurst
Exodus 3: 1-15
K LeighJ Ashcroft
Romans 12: 9-end
Sept 7th
---R McClure
Exodus 12: 1-14
M RedshawT Hopkins
Romans 13: 8-end
No Evening Prayer
A complete list of readings through the year can be found on the
kitchen notice board.
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
Looking back, with a glance forward!
Help needed:
As you will realise the parish magazine was short on ‘stuff’
last month (Derek’s holiday) and this month (church work overtaking
all), and once again I ask for some help.
Much of the content comes from a website aimed at Parish
magazine editors and is easy to use. It takes Derek about 2 hours
to trawl through, copy and paste for Honey.
The monthly readings have been taken off me so that saves me
some time but there are a few ‘regular’ bits & lists that need
not be done by me.
Our plea is for someone to volunteer to help with this work and
act as parish rep on the Parish Pump website.
Please let Derek or Honey Penrose know if you are
interested.
Derek
Messy Church
The next Messy Church will be on Saturday 20th September. See
page 20.
Ladies’ Group
We are pleased to report that our Garden Party, after a slowish
start got going and visitors enjoyed themselves on a sunny and warm
afternoon. We made £620 or thereabouts which will go to various
charities at the end of the year. We would like to thank all who
were involved in any way – without your willingness to help and
cheerfulness in doing so, the afternoon would be impossible to
stage.
Our trip to Boundary Mill takes place on Tuesday 19th August and
if you are interested in booking a place, please contact Sheila on
616850.
Erika
Men’s Fellowship – September
Gentlemen: Just to remind you about our first meeting which is
on Tuesday evening 9th September at the Smithy Inn Much Hoole at
7.30pm. Sandwiches and chips will be provided at no charge to your
good selves (but you buy your own beer). I would like to remind you
that the £8 subscriptions are due for payment at this meeting; our
new treasurer will be on hand and only to pleased to relieve you of
your cash (it helps with his holiday fund) and to hand out the new
2014/15 programmes. Also please remember you can bring a friend
along to see if he would like to join us as we really do need to
recruit new members; he does not necessarily have to be a church
member.
Stuart Tighe, Secretary
Hoole St Michael Junior School
This half term Hoole St Michael has been up to lots of exciting
things! Year 6 did their leavers play – Goodbye my Friend - ably
assisted by year 5. Class 2 went to Clitheroe Castle and also year
6 is going to Blackpool Tower for their leavers’ trip. Year 5 has
been to Penwortham Girls’ High School many times and they went to
Penwortham Priory for a technology day.
We will be very sad to say goodbye to our year 6’s as they leave
this summer for their new high schools. But we really hope they
will come back and see us often. We look forward to welcoming all
our new reception children into our family at Hoole St Michael.
We hope you all have a happy and restful summer holiday. Thanks
for reading – and don’t forget you can look at our brilliant
website and follow us on twitter to find out all our up to date
news.
By Lara and Trista
CHURCH INFORMATION
Information about opening times and other information for St
Michael’s are now to be found on the following websites. Simply
type “PR4” and follow the links:
http://www.achurchnearyou.com
http://www.find achurch.co.uk
http://www.searchchurch.co.uk
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A Summary of the Minutes of the PCC Meeting held on 19 May
2014
Treasurer’s Update
The RBS current account balance stands at £4,292.13 as at 19 May
201 4 and the Barclays Bank Community Account stands at £30,267.93.
The first quarterly payment for DBF fees has been paid to the sum
of £1,253.00. The next payment is due is due on or shortly after 30
June 2014.
Stewardship Campaign – to date all the costs have very kindly
been covered by Mr Mike Redshaw. Rev. Baines expressed his thanks
for this generous donation. Mrs. Wood has made enquiries with
Sharon Press (the publishers of the church magazine) for a
quotation for a print run of 1500 copies of the church magazine
with a view to being distributed within the parish along with the
next letter as part of the Stewardship Campaign.
Charitable Giving – the four charities have all received their
first cheques and acknowledgements with thanks have been received
from all of them. It was agreed to give a ‘one off’ donation of
£200 to two other charities. The charities chosen are the Food Bank
(Penwortham Churches Together) and the Salvation Army.
Water Aid - £540 was raised this year; this figure does not
include the additional Gift Aid.
Donations received for Messy Church include £100 from the
Deanery Committee and £293.77 from ‘Villages in Partnership’.
It was agreed to increase the annual subscription of the church
magazine to £10, effective from January 2015.
Review of wages – it was agreed that the wages paid to the
organists, verger and assistant verger should remain the same.
Review of Verger and Assistant Verger Contracts - a draft
contact was presented to the meeting and the content of the
contract was agreed by the meeting.
Churchwardens’ Report
The churchwardens were ‘sworn in’ at the Primary Deanery
Visitation on Thursday 15 May 2014 at St George’s Church in
Chorley.
Work is continuing on the Quinquennial Report. Work is being
undertaken on the dormer windows and the flags in the nave also
require attention. There are no serious deficiencies within the
church at the moment and there are no foreseeable major
expenses.
Report from the Friends’ Committee
The final cost of the Weather Vane totalled £10,883.50. The cost
of the manufacture was £3,200.00, the transportation from Hereford
was £120.00, the installation and fitting fees were £2,198.00 and
the fees incurred by the architects came to £5,365.50. A total of
£4,424.00 was raised by the appeal and the balance of £6,459.50 was
met by the Friends. The Friends’ Committee will now look at the
Quinquennial Survey to see where assistance may be required.
Stewardship Campaign 2014
The Open Day, held on 29 March 2014, was the first phase of the
campaign. The number of visitors was a little disappointing,
however, the Open Day was a success in that many regular members of
the congregation attended and the event brought together all the
groups within the church. The next phase of the campaign will
include a further letter drop to be sent to each home in the parish
with a response form. Also, a ‘thank you’ letter will be given to
the congregation giving information about church finances for 2014
and to consider increasing their giving of time, skills and money.
A response form will also accompany the letter. A Service of
Thanksgiving and Mission will be held on 20 July 2014. A cheque for
£155.00 was presented to the PCC which is the ‘profit’ made from
the sale of the Transit Videos at the Open Day. It was requested
that the money goes towards the purchase of a ‘Communion Box’.
Messy Church and Michael’s Club
Messy Church held on Saturday 17 May was again very successful
and well attended. A puppet group from Thornton Cleveleys came and
gave a puppet presentation which was thoroughly enjoyed by children
and adults alike. The puppets will be available for use by
Michael’s Club and the pupils from the schools.
Michael’s Club – there has been a lengthy break over the last
few weeks due to the Easter break and Bank Holidays. It was noted
that the prayers the children read in church are much appreciated
by the congregation, also there is a link between the church
service and the lessons the children have at Michael’s Club.
World War One Centenary Remembrance Activities
It was agreed to plant two packs of poppy seeds from Flanders
close to the War Memorial in the churchyard. The Church of England
has many resources available for activities to commemorate World
War One which are available on the Diocesan website. The Church of
England will be holding many events over the next four years. There
are also many events planned throughout Lancashire
The next meeting will be held on Monday 7 July 2014.
Diary (please also see Church Services on pages 4 & 5)
Tues 19th AugLadies’ Group trip to Boundary Mill
Tues 9th SeptMen’s Fellowship meeting in the Smithy. New Members
welcome
Prayer intentions
· We pray for those on holiday for safe journeys and a good
break
· We pray for the countries of Israel and Palestine, for an end
to the conflict and the loss of so many lives.
· We pray for the villages and the farms in our parishes, for
those who will work so hard to get the harvest in.
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Saint of the month:
11th August:
Clare of Assisi - a life of prayer and simplicity
In the year 1212 Clare, the 18 year old daughter of a local
Count, heard a young preacher called Francis. A few years earlier
he had caused a sensation in the centre of the town where they both
lived, Assisi in Italy, by stripping himself of his wealthy clothes
and declaring that from now on he would live the life of a peasant.
This, he said, was in obedience to the call of Christ, for whom the
poor were ‘blessed’ and the rich were in peril of judgment. He
gathered a group of seven men prepared to embrace what he called
‘joyful poverty’ for Christ’s sake, but that day he was to enlist a
female disciple. ‘You are a chosen soul from God’, he told Clare,
when she expressed her eagerness to embrace the same strict rule as
his male followers.
In due course, after a period in a Benedictine convent, Clare
and her sister Agnes moved into the church of St Damiano, which
Francis and his friends had restored, and gathered there a group of
like-minded women. Eventually Francis made Clare the abbess of a
religious order, at first called the ‘Order of Poor Ladies’;
eventually, and universally, to be known as the ‘Poor Clares’.
Unable to operate an itinerant ministry like the men, Clare’s
sisters concentrated on a life of prayer and simplicity. In fact,
their dedication to poverty was such that it affected the health of
many of them.
Francis and Clare remained friends and colleagues over the next
14 years in this remarkable movement of renewal and mission. During
the preceding century (as we can learn from Chaucer, among others)
the religious orders had in many cases substituted indulgence for
discipline. Francis and Clare found this scandalous, and despite
opposition from high places, set out to demonstrate that an
effective Christian message required an appropriate Christian
life-style. For them, poverty was not a burden but a joy - a
release from the delusions of power and ambition. Their witness
made an enormous impact on the poor people of Umbria and beyond,
who saw an authenticity in their lives which spoke as eloquently as
their words.
Clare helped to nurse Francis through his final illness, which
lasted several years. She lived for 27 years after his death, like
him suffering from the effects of long years of strict austerity.
She died in 1253 and was canonised two years later. She is buried
in the basilica of St Clare in Assisi, a few hundred yards from the
basilica of St Francis. In life they proclaimed the same message of
sacrificial love and service, and in their deaths they were not
divided. Her special day is 11th August.
by David Winter
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Editor of the Parish Pump: David Winter looks back at possibly
the most devastating war in history…
(My apologies – I have got this one and last month’s articles in
the wrong order. Derek)
The Battle of the Somme – the WW1 battle that changed
history
On 1st July, 98 years ago, two vast armies went to battle in the
Somme area, in north-eastern France. A week of heavy shelling
preceded the Allies’ attack. It is recorded that 1,738,000 shells
fell on the rich fields either side of the Somme river during those
seven days - though goodness knows who counted them. With the
deafening roar of the big guns in their ears, the allied soldiers
emerged from their trenches to be met with the inevitable hail of
bullets from the German machine guns. By the end of the first day’s
fighting over 60,000 British soldiers were casualties and no less
than 19,240 had been killed. The most devastating battle of modern
times - and possibly of human history - was under way.
The Battle of the Somme, as it was called, was the first to see
tanks and aircraft employed on a large scale. It was fought along a
25 mile front. The battle involved vast numbers of men - British
and soldiers from no less than eight countries of the Empire,
French and German - and more than a million of them were eventually
killed or injured. As the generals poured more and more troops into
the battle in the vain hope of what they called a ‘breakthrough’,
nothing much happened beyond the constant slaughter.
The battle went on through August, September and October and
only ended, on November 18th, when the utter futility of the whole
exercise seemed to dawn on both sides. As they counted the
casualties - 420,000 British, 200,000 French, nearly half a million
Germans - they could also calculate the net gain of all that
bloodshed. The Allies had pushed the Germans back all of six miles.
It was later worked out that for every mile taken 88,000 men lost
their lives.
There were amazing acts of valour and heroism in the course of
the battle. No fewer than 51 Victoria Crosses - the highest award
for gallantry in battle - were won by British combatants. At home,
the press tended to focus on such heroic deeds rather than on the
carnage on the battle-field, but the truth eventually emerged. To
misquote Winston Churchill, ‘Never in all the field of human
conflict was so much owed by so many to so many‘. Every town, every
village, every family would bear the scars of suffering for years
to come.
Lessons were learned, of course - most obviously the futility of
trench warfare. Battle and war would never be the same again. Face
to face, inch by inch, cold steel to cold steel, knee deep in mud
men fought and died. All across northern France the millions of
graves still bear their silent testimony to the dedication and
courage of young men who had their lives snatched from them in
battle. Mars, the god of war, had had his greatest moment, though
his appetite was not quite satisfied yet.
Editor of the Parish Pump: Might this be something your church
or community would want to take up?
Plant a tree to remember the dead of WW1
This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the
First World War. The Woodland Trust is honouring all those who took
part in the war effort by hoping to plant millions of trees that
will stand as a tribute for centuries to come. Will you support
them by planting a free tree pack in your community?
Woodland Trust has more than 4000 packs to give away in the
autumn, and they come in three sizes – 30 saplings, 105 saplings
and 420 saplings in various themes (hedge, copse, wildlife, wild
harvest, year-round colour, working wood, wild wood and wetland).
You can apply for more than one pack and theme, with 420 saplings
being the maximum quantity. Find out more at
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/freetrees. The deadline for applications
is 4th September, but apply soon to make sure you get your
trees.
From the Editor of the Parish Pump: The Rev Dr Gary Bowness
continues his tongue-in-cheek letters from ‘Uncle Eustace’… If you
would like a copy of our published booklet of Uncle Eustace’s
letters, please email us at: [email protected]
On the perils of ‘standing in’ for another vicar
The Rectory
St. James the Least
My dear Nephew Darren
You should not complain about doing duty in other churches when
their clergy are on holiday. It is only in other churches that you
will be appreciated. Beatification only comes from your own church
on the day you leave – which is a way of firing a shot across the
bows of your successor. I remember being greeted by a churchwarden
on my first day here at St. James the Least with the encouraging
words: ‘I’ve seen six Rectors of this parish; each one was worse
than the last.’ As the years have gone by, I am sure I will have
entirely fulfilled his expectations.
No; when you visit another church, you will be told all
the many defects of their own vicar, and whatever you do will be
praised. Store up these memories for the day you return to your own
patch – when you will then be told how outstanding your own
temporary replacement has been and how congregations thrived in
your absence.
Naturally, this gives you the right to make similar
remarks about your own congregation in the churches you visit.
Unfavourable comparisons with the bell ringers, vergers and
congregational singing in your home patch to the superb standards
in the church you’re temporarily serving will be much appreciated.
Just make sure that the church you are staffing is sufficiently far
from your own that word will not get back to your home team.
It is a mistake I made only once. After filling in for a
colleague, I happened to complement the choir on the singing of the
anthem. Unknown to me, a tenor was the second cousin of my
organist, who received a rather embellished story that I had
compared my own choir back home unfavourably with theirs. On my
return the following Sunday, all the hymns were played fortissimo
and at double speed and the choir in rotation dropped hymn books
throughout my sermon.
Inevitably, when you staff another church, you will be
told: ‘It’s the normal Service.’ It will be nothing of the sort.
Hymns will appear in unexpected places, Sunday schools will enter
and leave (and enter again) apparently at random, objects will be
brought to you to be read from, placed on the altar or blessed -
just as you were about to try and find the pulpit. In any case,
wherever you are standing, you will find you should have been
standing somewhere else. But not to worry - most mistakes will be
forgiven – provided your sermon is short.
So - enjoy your visits to other churches. And above all,
make sure that your temporary replacement is so spectacularly
incompetent that your own people will welcome you back with open
arms on your return.
Your loving uncle,
Eustace
Kids take note – the story on the next page is our Messy Church
theme in September. Watch this space!!
Kids’ Corner
St THOMAS
Thomas was one of the 12 disciples and one thing we know about
his family is he had a twin because he was called ‘Didymus’ which
means a twin.
Thomas was ready to die with Jesus (John 11:16) but it is as
‘Doubting Thomas’ that most people remember him. Thomas wasn’t
afraid to ask the questions that the other disciples were
thinking.
Thomas wasn’t with the other disciples when they they first saw
the risen Christ. He refused to believe that Jesus had returned
from the dead ‘unless I see… and touch… I will not believe’, but
when he saw and touched Jesus he exclaimed ‘My Lord and my God’.
You can read this in St John’s Gospel, chapter 20.
Without Thomas’s doubts perhaps we wouldn’t be as sure about our
faith today. We need someone to ask the questions that we are too
afraid to ask for fear of seeming silly or foolish.
T-TIME PUZZLE?
All the answers to this Bible puzzle begin with the letter T –
can you find them all? The first one is too easy.
1. The disciple called Didymus.
2. The town named after a Roman Emperor (John, chapter 6).
3. Roman to whom Luke addressed his Gospel.
4. Where St Paul was born (Acts, chapter 9).
5. Paul’s companion on the journey to Jerusalem (Galatians,
chapter 2).
6. She came from Joppa and was also known as Dorcas (Acts,
chapter 8).
7. Deborah sat underneath one (Judges, chapter 4).
Are there any tiles that won’t stick on the wall?
Reptiles.
Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe
you.Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
Answers: 1. Thomas 2. Tiberius 3. Theophilus 4. Tarsus 5.Titus
6. Tabitha. 7. Tree
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