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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 with News ideas, articles and requests for any Information or requests in the Future. We try to increase the articles and News in each edition but we rely on you to keep in touch with your questions or requests or articles you would like to submit for future issues. Getting in touch could not be easier; Contact anyone on the committee by leaving your details in one of the blue post boxes which are placed at the back of each 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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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

with News ideas, articles

and requests for any Information or requests

in the Future.

We try to increase the

articles and News in each

edition but we rely on

you to keep in touch with

your questions or

requests or articles you

would like to submit for

future issues.

Getting in touch could

not be easier;

Contact anyone on the

committee by leaving

your details in one of the

blue post boxes which

are placed at the back of

each

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.

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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.

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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!