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DECEMBER 2013 ISSUE NO 5
EDITORIAL
Welcome to the Fifth issue of your Parish
Extra; this is the News,
Views and information
for your Parish by your
Parish.
Our previous editions
have been well received
and we hope that you will
continue to be involved
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in the Future.
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STONYHURST LOURDES PILGRIMAGE
John Holden takes a look at the history of the Stonyhurst Lourdes Pilgrimage. 1n 1964 Fr. Paul Magill took a group of 16 to Lourdes, the group consisted of
boys, parents and masters. They joined up with the Catholic Association
formed by the dioceses of East Anglia, Southwark, Northampton, Portsmouth
and Bristol. Nick King, a former pupil of Stonyhurst who went on to Oxford
and later became a Jesuit priest, was one boy
who went on that first ever pilgrimage.
Fr. Paul set up a committee of trustees to raise
funds so to sponsor boys wishing to go, when Fr.
Paul retired from teaching he became our parish
priest he began to raise enough money to
enable two sick parishioners to go to Lourdes
each year, to ensure that the choice of who
went was fair, all name went into hat and two
were picked out. With the help of the Eagle and Child pub he continued to
raise funds for this until his death in January 1985.
Following Fr. Paul’s death, the two names had already been chosen and paid for,
for that year, however in the autumn Flo Burgess the landlady at the Eagle and
Child asked me what I was going to do to raise funds for the following year,
offering to let me run a fund raising event in her pub. I found that the money
raised was not enough so I organised a dance in the village hall.
I had a list of ten names whom Fr. Paul had nominated to go on the pilgrimage
and managed to take two each year until the list was cleared, however one year
I found no one was willing to go so I asked three school leavers if they would
like to go, they all gladly agreed, one of them was Patrick Hough another former
Stoneyhurst pupil who went on to become a Jesuit priest and is currently
teaching in Tampa Floria.
Jack and Flo Burgess sadly left the Eagle and Child so I only had the money
raised from the dance which was not sufficient to fully sponsor two people, so
from then on I covered half the cost. Over the years the price of going on the
Lourdes pilgrimage was increasing enormously and 1 was unable to raise the
amount so the last occasion anyone was sponsored was 2001. The
present cost is over £800. Fr. Paul’s dream is being carried on each
year however with one hundred pilgrims going yearly including
twenty five boys and girls sponsored by the trust. My granddaughter
Alice has for the past two years gone with them as a helper.
PARISH EXTRA
NEWS VIEWS AND INFORMATION FOR ST
PETER’S ST JOSEPH’S AND THE STONYHURST
COMMUNITY
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Early School Days
John Holden talks about his school days and growing up
In the village. My dad was born in 1900 and he started school at the age of 5 and left when he was 12. He lived at Turner Fold on the top side of the road at Kemple End. He won an attendance prize 3 consecutive years, not having missed a single day. He used to walk through the fields and join up with Dickie Wilkinson who lived at Fell Side. My sister and I were all born at Hacking Boat and when my eldest sister, Mary started school aged 4, Dad took her the first morning but on the second morning Mary said she could manage on her own and from then on she walked to school on her own. In 1935 my family moved to Winkley Hall farm and the three of us walked from there to school, on my first day on the way home I said I was tired so Mary gave me a ‘piggy back’ up the avenue of lime trees. In those days there was no such thing as school dinners so we had to take sandwiches and a kit of milk, most of the children lived near enough to go home for dinner however another family who stayed for dinner were the Marsden brothers, the three of them matched the three of us in age, they lived at Deer House, but soon left to live at Dunsop Bridge. Our cousins Mary and John Marsden also lived in one of the houses at Deer House, they used to walk through what is now the golf course.
My mother insisted we warm the milk on a big cast iron stove which was as big as a table, some days we would take eggs to school and boil them on the stove. One day after I had eaten my egg, I turned it over in the egg cup so it looked as if I had not eaten it, Miss Burns came and asked why I had not eaten my egg whereupon I turned it back over, she was not amused. At the start of the 1945 war, the infants class which had been upstairs above the dining room now moved down into the dining room itself. We all had our own desks in which we kept our shells which we used for counting and chalks for writing, we later progressed to pen and ink, having an ink well set into the desk so we had to be careful and not spill any ink. We were supplied with nibs. Sometimes they used to screech and you got blobs of ink on your work, you always had your blotting paper ready. If you were naughty in the infant, Miss Cross would slap your legs, in Miss. Halls junior class, she would slap your bottom or send you to Miss Burns in the senior class – she always used the cane, when they were finished she used wooden rulers and bits would fly off everywhere. At Christmas on the last day of term we had a tea party in the dining room, sandwiches, jelly and cakes.
After Christmas the entertainments committee organised another party in the school hall with a huge
Christmas tree in the middle, the top of it went through a man hole in the ceiling and it was covered
with presents each with a number on it. Father Christmas came and distributed the presents. The
spring term always ended on Maundy Thursday and the hole school walked down to St. Peter where we
prayed at the altar of repose. The flowers reached from the floor to the ceiling and they were later put
on the main alter for Easter Sunday. During the war St. Joesph’s school were asked to sing at the Holy
Week services so they had to learn Latin. After mass on Easter Sunday we were given breakfast in the
top refectory where we had hard boiled eggs dyed different colours. Each week at St. Joesph’s there
was mas on Wednesdays and Benediction.
St. Joseph’s Youth Group is for children aged from 9-16 and meets fortnightly during school term time, Fridays 7.30 – 9.00pm. Its name comes from the original location of the group which was next to St. Joseph’s Chapel in Hurst Green, but it now meets at the Memorial Hall. The aim is to provide informal and enjoyable activities in a relaxed atmosphere. Members enjoy playing computer games, badminton, table tennis football, buying tuck, participating in craft activities and when the Hurst Green weather permits making use of the Bayley Field and Park.
ST JOSEPH’S YOUTH CLUB
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UPCOMING EVENTS
The last Youth Club session
will be on Friday 20th
December. This will be the
Christmas Disco with music
from Hurst Green legend -
DJ Dan Wilkinson.
Christmas Masses—
Service of Reconciliation Wednesday 18th December 2013 at 6:30pm in St Peter's Church
Christmas Eve Vigil Mass 5.30 pm (Carols 5pm) St Peter's Church.
Midnight Mass starts at Midnight St Peter's Church.
Christmas Day Mass 10am St Joseph's Chapel.
(There is no 8.30am Mass on Christmas Day)
The Holly, Ivy
and
Christmas
Holly, Ivy and other greenery such
as Mistletoe were originally used in
pre-Christian times to help
celebrate the Winter Solstice
Festival and ward off evil spirits
and to celebrate new growth. When Christianity came into
Western Europe, some people
wanted to keep the greenery, to
give it Christian meanings but also
to ban the use of it to decorate
homes.
The UK and Germany were the
main countries to keep the use of
the greenery as decorations. Here
are the Christian meanings:
Holly The prickly leaves represent the
crown of thorns that Jesus wore
when he was crucified. The berries
are the drops of blood that were
shed by Jesus because of the
thorns. In Scandinavia it is known as the
Christ Thorn. In pagan times, Holly was thought
to be a male plant and Ivy a
female plant. An old tradition from
the Midlands of England says that
whatever one was brought into the
house first over winter, tells you
whether the man or woman of the
house would rule that year! But it
was unlucky to bring either into a
house before Christmas Eve.
Ivy Ivy has to cling to something to
support itself as it grows. This
reminds us that we need to cling
to God for support in our lives.
In Germany, it is traditional that
Ivy is only used outside and a
piece tied to the outside of a
Church was supposed to protect it
from lightning!
WORD SEARCH
The words can be in any direction and backwards!
ANGELS
BABY
BETHLEHEM
BIRTH
DAY
GOLD
JESUS
MARY
MYRRH
SHEEP
SHEPHERDS
STAR
STABLE
Can you spot
the eight
difference
between these
For You to Colour
Q: What is Santa's favorite pizza? A: One that's deep pan, crisp and even
Q: Why does Santa like to work in the garden? A: Because he likes to hoe, hoe, hoe!
Q: What do you call a man who claps at Christmas? A: Santapplause!
Q: What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck? A: A Christmas Quacker!