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The Lantern
NOVEMBER 2014
The magazine for St Andrew’s - the Church of England Parish for North Deal
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Who’s Who in the Parish
Parish Priest:
Father Stephen Young SSC 01304 447947
Honorary Assistant Clergy:
Father Ian Shackleton SSC 01304 379773
Father Roger Marsh SSC 01304 362851
Canon Fred Arvidsson SSC
Father Robert Farrell
Churchwardens:
Waveney Brooks 01304 367961
Kate Frorath 01304 380555
PCC Officers:
PCC Secretary: Ali Robertson PCC Treasurer: Mike Carey Electoral Roll: Bryan Evans
Children and Families Minister: Tim Fudge
Director of Music: Tim Woodhead
Lantern editor: Peter Gibson
Editorial adviser: Fr Stephen Young
Lantern advertising: Kate Rushbrook at [email protected]
The Parish Office:
St Andrew’s Church, West Street, Deal CT14 6DY
Telephone: (01304) 381131 - Email: [email protected]
The Parish Office is not manned full-time but mail and telephone messages are checked regularly.
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St. Andrew’s Church Hall
Our Church Hall is able to be hired for events or by groups for one-off
or regular lets. It has catering facilities, lavatories (including for
disabled) and a small garden area.
For your occasion, please leave a message for our Hall Manager, Rose-
mary Lanaway, on 01304 381131, for details of times and hire charges.
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The Small Print
Views expressed are not necessarily those of St. Andrew’s PCC.
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Editor: Father Christopher Lindlar.
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In Church each week at St Andrew’s
Matins is said at 8 am on Saturdays; otherwise at 9 am on weekdays.
Evensong is said at 6 pm.
Sunday 8.00 am Low Mass (Book of Common Prayer)
10.00 am Parish Mass (Common Worship)
6.00 pm Evensong (BCP) and Benediction
Monday 9.30 am Low Mass
Tuesday 9.30 am Low Mass
Wednesday 9.30 am Low Mass
Thursday 9.30 am Low Mass
Friday 9.30 am Low Mass
Saturday 8.30 am Low Mass (see below)
A priest will normally be available for spiritual counsel after Evensong on Sat-
urdays or otherwise by appointment.
On Festivals and Holy Days, service times may vary - please see our Notice
Board or website.
Please note:
1st Saturday 11.30 am OLW cell Mass, Angelus and Rosary
1st Wednesday 9.30 pm Low Mass and Healing Rites
3rd Sunday 6.00pm CBS attend Evensong and Benediction
Holy Baptism, Weddings and Funerals
Please contact Father Ian Shackleton on 01304 381131 for inquiries about any
of these services.
Cover picture: A Chelsea Pensioner plants a ceramic poppy in the dry
moat of the Tower of London. By 11th November 888,246 poppies will have
been planted to commemorate the WWI dead from Britain and the
Commonwealth.
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Father Stephen writes …..
This November begins with our annual commemoration of All Saints and All Souls and ends with Advent, the run-up season to Christmas and the Lord’s Birth.In between we recall the departed who fell in war at Remembrance Tide and also we cele-brate our Patronal Festival of St Andrew. So what do all these events have in common? My answer is Peace. Jesus came to bring peace to this world. He came to teach human beings to want peace not war, and by his own sacrificial death to bring peace between Humankind and God. Our many and varied events and celebrations at St An-drew’s church during November, as the nights draw in and it gets colder and darker, are all about coming together to celebrate what Jesus has done for us. The celebration of All Saints, the names of our departed loved ones for whom we ask peace at the Altar on All Souls Day, the Solemn Silence on Remem-brance Day, the joyful Mass of St Andrew, the candles we light at Advent, are all very dear and special ways of recalling that God wants us to bring peace to the world and to each other. The red and white poppies that have become a feature of this year’s WW1 centenary are a great way of bringing this message of peace home to our nation. As we hear about the terrible things happening in the Middle East perhaps we can make a real effort to of-fer a prayer for peace every day during November. The world needs it.
(Continued on next page.) Peace can only come from within ourselves, when God, who is Love, lives in our hearts then peace is possible. Prayer is the way to let God into our inner-most lives, and this is why I have been very heartened with the increase in weekday attendance at Mass, and the use of our prayer shrines for individual
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and personal prayer. St Andrew’s is a pray-full community. Our prayer, as a community, has made real differences to many lives, not least to those suffer-ing from ill health. I know from my own life that prayer produces results. If we sincerely, regularly and frequently pray, Our Lord gently brings our will and our desires into line with his own Divine Will. As we near the festival of our Saviour’s birth, let us make this month a time of deep prayer. Let us make attendance at Mass a number one priority. Suc-cessful churches are churches that pray.
Fr Stephen Young.
Thought for the month. “I’ve spent a number of years in India and Africa where I found much right-eous endeavour undertaken by Christians of all denominations; but I have yet to come across a hospital or orphanage run by the Fabian Society, or a humanist leper colony.”
Malcolm Muggeridge quoted in the Daily Telegraph.
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This month at St Andrew’s
Thursday 30th October: 12 noon to 4pm - Half Term Funday
Friday 31st October: Festival Concert at the Town Hall
Sunday 2nd November: All Saints Sunday. Services as usual.
Tuesday 4th November: All Souls Day.
9.30 am and 7.00 pm. Mass for the Departed
Please let us know if you wish a loved one to be remembered.
Saturday 8th November: Society of SS Wilfred & Hilda at Harbledown
10.30 Mass followed by + Norman speaking.
Sunday 9th
November: Remembrance Sunday
10am: Solemn Requiem for the Fallen.
11am: Act of Remembrance
6pm: Remembrance Evensong
Tuesday 11th November: Remembrance Day
9.30am: Mass for Peace
11.00am: Act of Remembrance
Sunday 23rd November : Patronal Festival. Reception after 10am Mass
Friday 28th November: Agincourt - Michael K Jones will talk about
his bestseller in the hall at 2.30pm. Details on page
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Sunday 30th November: Advent Sunday
10.00 am. Parish Mass, when we may be having
a surprise visit from St Nicholas!
Saturday 6th December: 9 – 1pm Christmas Fair
Thursday18th December: 6.30pm Community Carols
at the Golf Road Centre with Deal Hoodeners.
Saturday December 20th: 8am onwards St Andrew’s Braderie Team
at the Undercroft .
Details of our Christmas and New Year Services and events will be pub-
lished in the next issue.
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Dancing in God's Grace
This fund raising dance class offers the opportunity to learn easy circle dances, danced to Christian worship music.
Through the dancing we can, in our own ways, express our gratitude to God and share our joy for the blessings we have received from Him.
The classes are open to all ages and abilities.
Participants will be asked to make a donation towards St. Andrew's Church Stained Glass Restoration Fund.
Classes will be held at St. Andrew's Church Hall
on Friday mornings from 10.15 to 11.00 (except every 3rd Friday of each month)
starting Friday 31st January 2014.
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St Andrew’s Pet Service
Despite a breezy and overcast morning, what a lovely occasion was the St Francis’ Day Pet Service held in the Churchyard. Father Roger led the service, Father Stephen gave a short sermon and Father Duncan from St. Thomas’s assisted with the prayers. John Harper provided musical accompaniment to the lively hymns!
The animal congregation behaved impeccably – there were 16 dogs (George the black poodle and the little Chihuahua being the biggest and the smallest); 3 cats, who surveyed everyone and everything with unperturbed interest; 1 tortoise (of great interest to Robbie the spaniel and Daisy the terrier) and the most unusual member, the little Snowfire - a Bearded Dragon! The humans present also behaved well, even when being asperged! (See the picture below where Fr Stephen and Fr Roger are asperging pets and owners!)
The Blessings given by the priests for all creation and for our pets past and present concluded a most joyful service.
Brenda Lovelock
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Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
On Monday 6th October I accompanied Fr Roger to the Annual Meeting of the Council-General of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament (CBS). Fr Roger is the Superior of the District to which St Andrew’s belongs and I attended at his invitation in the capacity of lay observer, having become a member of the CBS when I became an Altar Server.
The main aim of the CBS is the advancement of the catholic faith in the Anglican Tradition and to promote the concept of the Eucharist at the heart of our worship and, indeed, all we do. The main business of Monday’s meeting was to confirm amendments to the constitution relating to the role of lay people at the Council-General, which the CBS regards as very important.
The meeting was held in London at Christ the King, Gordon Square, a very nostalgic location for me since I spent many happy times there as a student back in the seventies. The day began in the beautiful Chapel, with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Roger Jupp, Superior General of the CBS. Nothing was different from how I remembered it – except for me, of course!
The reports on their districts provided by the priest-associates were in-teresting. The catholic faith is holding on, but only just, and one of the vital functions of the CBS is to help support stipends in parts of the country which would otherwise no longer be viable, including St Luke’s, Southport, Fr Ian’s old parish.
In fact, we at St Andrew’s have much to be thankful for compared with many churches and if you join the CBS, you will be contributing to what it can do for really struggling parishes and their priests, some of whom I met. Please speak to Fr Roger if you are interested in joining. We have a handful of members, but could do with more.
As is usually the case, clergy wit, wisdom and hospitality abounded and not only did I increase my understanding of some of the big issues for us, I was made to feel truly welcome and greatly encouraged and sup-ported in my faith. (Continued overleaf.) Thanks to Fr Roger for the invitation.
Kate Rushbrook
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The CBS Constitution is available in full at www.confraternity.org.uk
but as I have said is in the process of amendment.
American Supper
The weather on August 11th left a lot to be desired as the tail end of “Hurricane Bertha” passed over. The day had seen torrential down pours on and off, not the sort of weather one would wish for a garden party!
However, spirits were not dampened in the least and by 6.30pm, with the rain still pattering down, we all began gathering in Mary Easter’s beautiful garden. There must have been at least 70 of us and each had brought a contribution to the buffet. Given the culinary talents of many of the guests, a grand feast of great variety was spread before us which was enjoyed by all. The wine flowed, and so did the Pimms, ensuring that the atmosphere was sufficiently elated.
We were pleasantly entertained by Ian Shawcross and his band, who had set up in the summer house out of the rain. The highlight of the evening had to be when the Rev’d Douglas Bean played “Summertime” on his saw! It was a wonderful, ethereal sound and amazed us all. He was accompanied by Dominic on the piano. There was a collection during the evening that raised £470 towards Church funds.
I am sure I speak for everybody who attended when I say that a great time was had by all. During the evening it did stop raining and the sun came out, which made it even more enjoyable. We all thank Mary very much for her kind hospitality and look forward to the next even put on by St. Andrew’s Guild.
Patricia Thomsett-Jones
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In God’s Presence
After weeks of preparation the special day had finally arrived. It was Thursday 25th September and my granddaughters, Tabatha and Betsy, were to be Confirmed that evening with four adult candidates, two of whom – Susan and Lawrence – were also members of our congregation.
The girls had thoroughly enjoyed their Confirmation classes with Father Ste-phen which they had attended in church on Saturday afternoons following their ballet lessons. I went along with them to make notes so that I could an-swer any questions they might have afterwards.
A Pontifical High Mass with the Sacrament of Confirmation was celebrated by the Right Reverend Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough, and he was supported by a host of clergy resplendent in their festive vestments. The choir was in excellent voice and as they all processed towards the Sanctuary the church seemed filled with the spiritual mystery of God’s presence. All the candidates were supported by a large number of family members who,
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with members of the regular congregation, ensured that the church was full.
Tabatha and Betsy both dressed in white looked angelic; more importantly they felt angelic and were both very excited about making their first commun-ion.
After the Renewal of Baptismal vows, shared by all present, the candidates knelt to receive the Laying on of Hands and Anointing with Chrism. This was a highly charged moment as everyone responded to the presence of God’s Holy Spirit. My daughter, Deborah, certainly felt the transformation and spoke of it afterwards. We all felt very privileged to behave assisted at such a wonderful and Holy celebration.
Patricia Thomsett-Jones
History for Pleasure
AGINCOURT 1415
Michael K Jones
will discuss his bestseller
“AGINCOURT”
St Andrew’s
Church Hall
Friday
28 November
At
2.30pm
Tickets
From the
Organiser
Barbara Leigh
£7.50
Includes
Tea & cakes
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News from Madagascar
On the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first Anglican mis-sionaries in Madagascar Bishop Oliver writes about an important figure in the early days of the mission. In 1914, the 50
th anniversary of the arrival of the first Anglican Missionaries
in Madagascar was commemorated with a Jubilee celebration at which the guest was the Archbishop of Cape Town, Dr Carter. The Archbishop came as the representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel. He and his wife spent June visiting the east coast (Tamatave and Andovoranto) and three districts in Imerina. More lasting was the publication of E O McMahon’s illustrated memoire, Christian Missions in Madagascar, SPG, 1914, from which this information is gleaned.
Edward Oliver McMahon had arrived in Madagascar in 1880. By 1914 he was one of the two Archdeacons. He died in service and is buried in Ramainandro, some 100 kms south and west of Antananarivo. He wrote a number of pieces and was clearly interested both to understand and interpret what he experienced over perhaps 40 years or more in the Island.
His 50th anniversary reflection is marked by frequent references to ‘native’ and ‘heathen’, which date it, but on the other hand it is a significant and read-able overview of the history of the Anglican Mission, and of the other re-formed and Protestant Missions at that time. And having just made a tran-scription so that this important text can once again be more widely available, I am struck by the relevance of his memoire, a hundred years later.
McMahon seems to have been indefatigable – and not just him, his wife and several children too. He moved to Ramainandro in 1885 where he supervised the building over the next four years of the church, in memory of the Bish-op’s wife who had died in 1882, a Mission House and Schools. No sooner was the church dedicated and the McMahons had left on their first furlough after nearly ten years service than a cyclone carried away the roof. Five years later, all the buildings were destroyed in an uprising against the French which nearly cost McMahon and his family their lives.
There is a vivid account of this in the book. Where the stone altar had been was a deep hole; apparently the rebels thought that the Christians buried their treasure under the altar. At the same time McMahon was keen to expand the area of mission westwards into what might be termed at that time (1888) ‘bandit country’, the ruthless and untamed fiefdoms of warring Sakalava.
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Here is a flavour of the challenge: “The first visit was a very trying one. No European had ever penetrated that part before. There were no roads and we found travelling difficult, and were much longer on the way than I had reckoned on. Our food gave out after a week, and my men searched for roots and wild oranges; how we managed to get over the last two or three days has always been a wonder to me. The men toasted their sandals and skin caps, and ate them.
When we got to the first Sakalava settlement we found all that we had heard of the Sakalava to be true. They were simply painted savages, all armed and very rowdy. The border chief was against receiving us, and placed a lot of armed men around our camp, and if it had not been for the women taking pity on us, I think we should have been starved to death.
Fortunately the principal chief wished to see a European, and we were passed on to him. As a boy he had accompanied Rasalima, a Sakalavan prin-cess, one of the wives of Radama I to Antananarivo, and I found him an in-teresting old man. He was quite friendly, but told me it would be impossible to put Hova teachers among the Sakalava. He was anxious to send me to the King, who lived two days further on, nearer the Mozambique Channel; but he said I must go alone, the Hova with me would not be allowed to travel through their country. I asked him if he could guarantee their safety while I went, but he was doubtful as to what might happen, so of course I could not leave them.
He promised to do what he could to prepare the other chiefs if I would re-turn, which I promised to do. He gave me an ox, and we dried some of the meat for our return journey, which was about 150 miles. When I got home my wife, who had remained alone with our children at Ramainandro, did not recognize me! We had had a very rough time.” (McMahon pp 88-9) Travel in Madagascar is still demanding. Bishop Oliver has a nine mile walk from the nearest road to visit Anivorano Nord, our linked parish. And cy-clones still devastate buildings. Their church was destroyed a year or two back and now the priest’s house which also serves as temporary church is about to collapse. We have sent £150, the proceeds of the collection at our Harvest Festival Mass, to go towards the rebuilding, and at least twenty peo-ple have taken boxes to collect loose change. for the same project. The mon-
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