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God of mission, Who alone brings growth to your church, Send your Holy Spirit to bring vision to your planning, Wisdom to our actions, Faith to our lives, Hope to our communities And love to our hearts, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
www.sleafordparishchurch.co.uk
March
2019
Prayer
St Denys Bulletin
Welcome to the March
issue of the
St Denys Bulletin
ITEMS FOR THE BULLETIN
If you have an item you would like included in the St Denys Bulletin please email to
[email protected], by the Wednesday before the first Friday of every month. No bulletin in
August or January. If you are not on email, then please write item out in
full and bring to the office. There is no charge for the bulletin but any
donations are gratefully received. Thank you to those who have sent contributions in.
PREPARATION OF NEW ELECTORAL ROLL
Notice is hereby given that under the Church Representation Rules a new Church Electoral Roll is being prepared. All persons who wish to have their names entered on the new Roll, whether their names are entered on the present Roll or not, are requested to apply for enrolment not later than 1st April 2019. Forms are available from the back of the church, the Parish Office or follow the link from the church website. wwwsleafordparishchurch.co.uk Please return all forms to either the Parish Office or Angela Clash.
OTHER SERVICES Each weekday (except
Wednesday) at 8.45am Morning Prayer in St Hugh’s.
Every Wednesday at 10am - Holy Communion either in The
Lady Chapel or St Hugh’s.
March Services at St Denys Sunday, March 3rd Quinquagesima 8am BCP 10am Celtic 5pm Evensong
Weds, March 6th Ash Wednesday 7pm Sunday, March 10th Lent 1 8am Holy Communion 10am Holy Communion 5pm Said Evening Prayer
Sunday, March 17th Lent 2 8am Holy Communion 10am Holy Communion 5pm Taizé
Sunday, March 24th Lent 3 8am Holy Communion 10am Holy Communion 5pm Sunday @ five
Sunday, March 31st Lent 4 / Mothering Sunday 8am Holy Communion 10am Holy Communion 6pm CTSD at St Denys
Sunday, April 7th Lent 5 8am BCP 10am Holy Communion 5pm Evensong
ENVIRONMENT MATTERS
I sit, writing this, in a T-shirt! The outside thermometer reads 16 degrees Celsius. It feels more like a warm April, or even an early June, than February. On the day of writing the news reported a gorse fire on Arthur’s seat in Edinburgh, and moorland fires on the Yorkshire moors and in Wales – scenes rather too reminiscent of last summer. But this time last year many events were cancelled or postponed due to heavy snowfall.
Even if you are sceptical about some of the claims made by climate change pressure groups and what we need to do to avert an environmental Armageddon it is hard to deny that our weather is even more unpredictable than it usually is. But changes in the weather – global warming – is but one aspect of a wide range of environmental issues that are currently in the spotlight. The popularity of Veganuary – the Vegan Society’s push to encourage people to try veganism for a month – is well noted and much of their publicity emphasises the benefits of this diet both for human health and the environment. Although there is much that I disagree with in their publicity they are right when they make the point that what we eat and where it come from has an impact on the planet. The same might be said of what we wear: recent research has shown that a lot a clothes bought today are only worn five times before being thrown out. But if that item of thrown-out clothing has a high nylon content if will take a minimum of 40 years to decompose in a landfill site.
Over the past 40 years the way we live has been radically transformed: from what we eat and wear to our sources of energy and information. All of these changes have had some impact on the world we live in. We live in a finely balanced ecosystem so changes in one area will affect other areas of the
ecosystem – not always in a manner that could have been predicted.
The Bible has a lot to say about the world that we live in and humanities relationship to the environment. Some of the obscure dietary laws and other less read areas of the legal texts in the Old Testament can help us to think more clearly about how we live ethically in the world today. This year’s Lent Course is going to look at some of the key environmental issues of our time and explore how the ancient Biblical texts might help us think and act on these issues more clearly.
Fr Philip
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
ST DENYS, SUMMER FETE 2019
This will be held on Saturday, 1st June from 10am until 2pm.
This is a change from the original date due to the absence of some of the key participants.
2019 PCC MEETINGS at 7pm
Standing / Fabric Committee Monday, 4th March
PCC Monday, 18th March
The APCM will take place on Sunday, 28th April at 11.30am in the church
MOTHERS’ UNION
Meetings take place every 4th Tuesday at 2pm in the Church Hall (except Aug and Dec)
Contact through the Parish Office 01529 413607
At our next meeting on 26th March, we shall be celebrating Lady Day
with a Eucharist service at 2pm in Church.
CHILDREN’S SOCIETY BOXES
These are due for opening during March. Brenda Hitchcock will
collect if you are unable to bring yours to church.
FROM THE REGISTERS
BAPTISMS
Jacob William Pool 10th February 2019
THANKSGIVING SERVICES
Sylvia Mary Armitage 8th February 2019 99 years
Please remember them in your prayers
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE A service will be held on Ash Wednesday at 7pm.
ST DENYS RINGERS Practice every Friday at 7.30pm in the
church Contact through the
Parish Office 01529 413607
SLEAFORD KESWICK BIBLE MINISTRY 2019 7.30pm at the Riverside Church
Friday, 8th March Peter Maiden
Peter has served with Operation Mobilisation for more than 40 years and is now the International Director Emeritus. He has also been involved with the Keswick Convention for 20 years and serves at present as the Minister-at-Large. He is the author of four books and has served for more than 30 years as a elder in his local church.
STAMPS! Thank you very much for the many stamps collected in our box in church for the work of the Leprosy Mission. All kinds of stamps are welcome, foreign as well as GB issues. Whole collections are obviously of value if anyone is downsizing or having a clearout? The work of the Leprosy Mission is vast and still very much ongoing, working in 32 countries across the world. We are asked to pray particularly for the work of two hospitals, Anandaban in Nepal and Purulia in West Bengal, both providing healing and hope for leprosy sufferers. The Mission is aware of the many who live in remote areas, or hide away for fear of diagnosis, and so provides outreach clinics for identifying and treating patients where they are. Your stamps do provide funds to contribute to this work, so if you do receive any letters please save the stamps. Thank you !
Helen Bristow
SLEAFORD MUSEUM TRUST Tuesday 26th March 2019
Talk on "Carres Grammar School: A Hidden History" to be given by Simon Pawley.
Venue: St Denys Church starting at 7.30 p.m. Admission £3 for non-members and £1 for members. Raffle, refreshments, available. Donations welcome.
COMMUNICANTS’ GUILD Meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Church Room
Contact Pam on 01529 700105 At our February meeting we heard Mr Sidney McFarlane, MBE, speak about the new International Bomber Command Centre on the outskirts of Lincoln. His talk was accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation showing how the centre had developed and is still developing.
Our next meeting, on March 19th, is the AGM, which will be held in church after a 7 pm celebration of Holy Communion by the Vicar, who will also chair the meeting.
The April meeting, which is in Holy Week, will feature slides of the Holy Land by ordinand Sara Davies. Sara visited Israel last autumn as a
member of the group organised by the Bishop of Lincoln.
SLEAFORD HISTORY GROUP
‘BULLY BEEF AND BISCUITS -
SANITARY INSPECTORS AT WAR”
BY MR. WILL HATCHETT
Thursday, 21st March
at 7.30pm in St Denys’s Church Room
Everybody welcome
PARENT AND TODDLER GROUP
Every Wednesday, during term time, at 9.30am in the Church Hall
Contact the Parish Office on 01529 413607
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BISHOP’S VISITOR UPDATE
WILLIAM ALVEY SCHOOL
by Beryl Risdell
School activities have resumed after the recent Half Term holiday when everyone enjoyed the exceptionally mild weather. Perhaps spring has sprung early or maybe there will be more of winter to come!
In recent weeks several of the year groups have enjoyed visits out of school as part of their work. The Y1's (aged 5/6)went to Lincoln Castle, the Y6's (aged 10/11) went to Clumber Park and the Y2's (aged 6/7) to NCCD at the Hub in Sleaford. A mixed age group of singing enthusiasts went to the Sheffield Arena to join other children from further afield. The Reception children (aged 4/5) stayed in school and the Fire Brigade came to visit. I'm sure it wasn't an emergency but no doubt it was very exciting for the children!
Collections of copper coins are still being gratefully received towards the cost of the roundel to be erected in Lloyds Bank to commemorate William Alvey. I am happy to take them into school if you have any coins.
I am continuing my visits to Assembly and to Mrs Camm's class to hear “readers” and chat about books.
In a few weeks I shall have been visiting the school as Bishop's Visitor for six years. Everyone, staff and children, all work very hard and I ask for your continued prayers for everyone at the Alvey.
HOUSE GROUPS
There are two House Groups who meet fortnightly on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
Please contact Terry Regan via the Parish Office.
Walter or William or Wxxxxxx?
If you don’t know Yvette in St. Denys’s, you might like to make her acquaintance somewhen. At the far east end of the north aisle, to the right or south of the black and white marble chest-tomb against the wall is a memorial slab or coffin-lid. On it are carved a female head, hands clasped in prayer and two feet in pointed slippers. On the edge is an inscription in Old French: WS KY PAR ICI PASSEZ PUR LE ALME IVEYT PRIEZ KY FU LE FEME HO W DE ROUCEBY KY DEU DE LA ALME HEN AY MERCI. [“You who pass by here, pray for the soul of Yvette, who was the honoured wife of W of Rauceby and on whose soul may God have mercy”]
St. Denys’s really has no right to use this artefact. It was found in a railway cutting just south of Lincoln in the Malandry field when the Grantham-Lincoln railway was being built. The site was originally the chancel of the chapel of the Hospital of Holy Innocents south-east of the High Street/South Park roundabout, Lincoln.
Who was ‘W’? Various Walters and Williams occur in the 1300s. Was one of them this ‘W’?
One seemingly colourful character was a William de Rouceby, described as a merchant. Some of his alleged activities can be described as :”colourful”. Let the Close Rolls of Edward III [1354] tell part of the story:
“Concerning the capture of a certain ship named The Saint Marie of Coronade from Genoa and certain goods and chattels found in the said ship, at the suit of Anthony Compaignon, ’merchant of Genoa,' William of Rouceby having been impeached came into the king's chancery at Westminster, and he says that the aforesaid ship came into The Race of St. Matthew in Brittany and there tarried through three flows and ebbs of the tide, while the mariners of the aforesaid ship, having failed to pay the customs due to the aforesaid lord the king of England in the aforesaid port on the merchandise carried in the same ship, sailed away with the same ship by night, wherefore the said William as one of the retainers of John Avenel, captain and lieutenant of the lord the king in the duchy of Brittany,'' following the aforesaid ship by order of Thomas of Lyndelowe, admiral of the said John Avenel in the aforesaid duchy, captured the said ship together with the aforesaid merchandise near the Scilly Islands in Cornwall, (taking these) for the aforesaid cause as a prize of the said captain's according to the custom of those regions, accounting for the same to the aforesaid John Avenel and answering to him for them ; wherefore he does not think that he ought to be haled at the suit of the said Anthony for the capture of the aforesaid ship and goods and chattels.” Was this Yvette’s husband? Research continues, so ‘watch this space’!
Douglas Hoare.
GROUPS MEETING IN THE CHURCH HALL
Group Day Time Frequency
Move It or Lose It with Kimberley Wilson
Monday 9.15am and 10.15am
Weekly
Weight Watchers Tuesday 10am Weekly all year round
Mothers’ Union Tuesday 2pm Last Tuesday of every month but not Aug or Dec
Communicants’ Guild Tuesday 7pm Monthly on the 3rd Tuesday
Sleaford Museum Trust Tuesday 7.30pm Alternate months on the 4th Tuesday.
Parent and Toddler Group
Wednesday 9.30am During term time
Sleaford Dementia Support Group
For more details: [email protected]
Wednesday 1pm Alternate Wednesdays, 1st and 3rd.
Bolly Wednesday 6.05pm Every Wednesday
Yoga Wednesday 7pm Every Wednesday
Sleaford History Group Thursday 7.30pm Monthly, 3rd Thursday
Sleaford Dementia Support - Carers Group [email protected]
Friday 10am Monthly on the 1st Friday
St Denys Choir (Church)
Friday 7pm Weekly
St Denys Ringers (Church)
Friday 7.30pm Weekly
Sleaford Widows Group Enquiries through the
office.
Saturday 2.30pm Last Saturday in every month except December
Vicar of Sleaford The Rev’d Philip Johnson 01529 304348 [email protected]
Assistant Curate The Rev’d Rhona Knight 01529 300237 [email protected]
Vicar of Quarrington The Rev’d Mark Thomson 01529 306776
Churchwardens Richard Clash 07714 565678 Philip Starks 01529 307144
Director of Music Lee Rooke [email protected]
SLEAFORD PARISH CHURCH
CONTACTS
Lincolnshire Co-operative Ltd Sleaford Funeral Home
Funeral Directors and Monumental Masons Tel: 01529 306311
PCC Treasurer Brenda Hitchcock 01529 302775
The Parish Office Parish Administrator Paula Ireland Parish Office Opening Hours Mon-Fri 9am—12pm 01529 413607 [email protected] The Parish Office Market Place SLEAFORD NG34 7SH Registered charity No: 1127600 www.sleafordparishchurch.co.uk
Sleaford Parish Church
To hire the Church Hall or The Peake Room please enquire at the Parish Office. Baptism and wedding application forms may be downloaded from the website. Enquiries to the Parish Office.
