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HAPPY EASTERAND

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The

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APRIL

2020

St. James's, Dursley &St. Mark's, Woodmancote

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The Ewelme Benefice

The parish of Dursley and the parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield

Web Site – www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk

RECTOR

Revd Canon Michael CozensIs on sabbatical and is due back in mid April 2020.

Until then please contact people below.

ASSOCIATE PRIESTS

Rev Ian Gardner, Chestal Lodge, 9 Chestal, Dursley, GL11 5AANB NEW E-mail: [email protected]: 546895

Rev Jane Wood, 11 Spouthouse Lane, Cam, GL11 5JPE-mail: [email protected]

Contact via Parish Office Tel: 549280

READER

Mr Tony King, 2 Lower Poole Close, Dursley, GL11 4LU

E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 298897

CHURCHWARDENS.

Mr Austin Meares, 38 Woodmancote, Dursley, GL11 4AQTel: 544677

Mrs Caroline Marrow, 7 Norman Hill Road, Tilsdown, Cam, GL11 5RGTel: 544221

PARISH ADMINISTRATOR – Clive Orchard

Office Hours are: 9.00am – 12.30pm Monday to Friday.

Address letters to: The Rectory, Broadwell, Dursley, Glos, GL11 4JE

[email protected]: 549280

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC.

Mr Nigel Davies, M.A., B Mus., F.R.C.O, 5 St John Street, Thornbury, Bristol, BS35 2AUTel: 01454 416867

PCC: VICE CHAIRMAN – Mr Austin Meares, 38 Woodmancote, Dursley, Glos GL11 4AQTel: 544677

SECRETARY –E-mail: [email protected] - Mr Peter Kirvan, 28 Budding Way, Dursley GL11 5BE E-mail: [email protected]: 542186

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APRIL

CONTENTS

Letter from Revd Ian....…...........................................................2,3

Coronavirus important information.................................................5

Seven Words from the Cross.........................................................6

Join the Parish Giving Scheme.......................................................7

St Mark’s News............................................................................8

Music Notes and Bells..............................................................10,11

Diocesan Messenger ..................................................................14

Bishop Rachel speaking in the House Lords...............................16,17

Recipe......................................................................................19

Tribute to Bishop David..............................................................22

Mouse diary...............................................................................25

Editors: Marlene Powell Tel: 01453 545706Valerie Meares Tel: 01453 544677

Jenni Norris Tel: 01453 543996

Advertising please contactPhilip Staddon Tel: 01453 544312

e.mail address [email protected]

PLEASE SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO:

Marlene PowellTel: 01453 545706or Valerie MearesTel: 01453 544677or Judith Staddon Tel: 01453 544312 e.mail [email protected]

and Jenni Norrise.mail [email protected]

Message from the editors:

Any opinions expressed in the magazine are personal views only...

Marlene, Judith Valerie and Jenni

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DEADLINE FOR THE MAY 2020 ISSUE IS

SUNDAY 13th APRIL

Dear Friends

I do hope that you are well and keeping safe. We are all trying to live as best we can within the constraints that the Coronavirus has necessarily placed upon us all. The scale of this pandemic is huge and crosses international boundaries. In these circumstances the task of government is extraordinarily complex and the response of health services, carers, volunteers and businesses in adapting to changing times, magnificent and humbling.

There is nothing normal in these days. Perhaps alone the season of spring arrives as ever with the beauty of life in all aspects of it's glory and wonder. Look out and around, see and hear and there you will find vivid colours, new buds and the chirping and singing of robin, blackbird and wren. Here, in those transcendent moments of normality, life goes on.

I confess to being unable to express anything that might help in making sense of what we are all going through. There are no easy words and these are not normal times. However, what I do see and hear about, is the generosity and ingenuity of people. That, I can understand, appreciate and say thank you!

Thank you for the support of one another in community; thank you for the selfless commitment of NHS and care staff in their caring and their compassion; and thank you too for the clever people who know how to make social media work for good and communicate and encourage us with tweets, face time, videos etc... THANK YOU ALL.

When thinking about how I might characterise what I wanted to say in this letter, I thought of an image. The image is a hand or hands. Beautiful, craggy, young, old, frail and strong hands. These hands of ours have been washed and washed again, because that is how we can help stop the spread of the virus.

Hands that reach out to offer support and help to those unable to get out. Hands that reach for the phone to talk to someone who might otherwise would be lonely and alone. Hands too that hold and cuddle those closest to us when we are most frightened and many of us are now frightened and confused.

Yet this April 2020 has a story to tell once again. In these dark times it is a story of hope and love in the midst of human chaos and confusion. It begins with rough hands that nail a broken body to a wooden cross. Hands pierced and driven into the wood. Hands that sagged, as life ebbed out of it on that wooden cross. Hands that bore the broken body down from the cross and carried it to the tomb. Despairing hands, wiping away the tears.

Yet, early in the morning hands, a woman's hands, that so wanted to grasp and hold the Lord she loved, were gently rebuffed,

“ Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned and said to Him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her. JOHN 20. 16-18.

My words remain inadequate. Yet, I trust still, in the love and compassion of human beings. I trust too in the love of God and his son Jesus Christ, with whom and in the Spirit the story continues. Love conquers. May we hold onto that, today and the days to come.

Yours in Christ

Ian

This RS Thomas poem is an inspiration.

.I have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small fieldfor a while, and gone my wayand forgotten it. But that was the pearlof great price, the one field that hadtreasure in it. I realise nowthat I must give all that I haveto possess it. Life is not hurryingon to a receding future, nor hankering afteran imagined past. It is the turningaside like Moses to the miracleof the lit bush, to a brightnessthat seemed as transitory as your youthonce, but is the eternity that awaits you.

Churches of St Giles, Holy Cross & St BartholomewChurchwardens Ann Hardy 860876, Pauline Thomas 01453 860047

Churches of St James the Great & St Mark’s, DursleyChurchwardens Austin Meares 544677 Caroline Marrow 544221

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Ewelme Benefice

In response to the Archbishops’ guidance, all public services have been put hold until further notice.

Congregations are urged to be in the forefront of providing practical care and support for the most poor and the most vulnerable during the crisis, They say that we may not be able to pray with people in the ways that we are used to, but that we can certainly pray for people and offer practical care and support.

They ask that we carry on supporting the local foodbank and buy extra provisions for it. Ensure the night shelters wherever possible are kept open. That by our service, and by our love, Jesus Christ will be made known, and the hope of the gospel – a hope that can counter fear and isolation - will spread across our land.”

We are urged to become a different sort of church in these coming months: hopeful and rooted in the offering of prayer and praise and overflowing in service to the world”

Pastoral Care:

Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus, we have been advised by the Bishop that only essential visiting should take place at the moment. We are keen to continue our care and support through telephone calls.

Please let Marion Kee (860364) or Pat Jones (860696) (Uley), or Revd Ian Gardner (546895),Revd Jane Wood /Churchwardens (Dursley) know of those who need to be contacted or those who are in hospital and we will get in touch.

The above has been taken from the pew sheet produced by Clive in the Parish Office. If you would like a full copy please e.mail the Parish Office and hard copies will hopefully distributed, although the churches are now locked..

From Revd Richard Morgan... Seven Words from the Cross......

There is a tradition in some churches to have three hour service on Good Friday, classically centred on Jesus' Seven Words from the cross. Those words point to and sum up so much of the meaning of the cross and the whole gospel. Here are some verses meditating on them. [You could sing them to the tune of 'Rock of Ages.']

Jesus hanging crucified,

For us, with us, bore our pain;

Taking all our griefs, he died

That we all may live again,

By his anguished mortal strife

Bringing resurrection life.

Christ displayed God’s meaning there

In his words upon the tree,

Love to show, all ill to bear:

So he won God’s victory,

All God’s purpose to complete,

Life to win and death defeat.

‘Father, Father. pardon them,

For they know not what they do.’

Jesus comes not to condemn,

But to pardon me and you.

God is love and will forgive;

By that grace the world will live.

‘Truly now I say to you,

You will be with me this day

In God’s garden,’ – life made new,

Where all ills are done away.

To the thief upon the cross,

Christ gave life that cancels loss.

‘Mother dear, behold your son.

Son, behold your mother here.’

Christ, the Father’s chosen One

Holds our human loves so dear:

Family, friendship, nature’s love

Are so prized by God above.

‘My God, my God,’ Jesus called,

‘Why have you forsaken me?’

By the weight of sin appalled,

By creation’s tragedy,

Plunged into hell’s deepest pain,

Jesus raised the world again.

Having born the very worst,

Faithful to the Father’s will,

Then Christ Jesus said, ‘I thirst!’

All the scripture to fulfil.

May his loving thirst inspire

Us, God’s goodness to desire.

‘It is finished!’ Jesus cried,

Hanging there for you and me,

- Called in triumph as he died,

- Winning love’s full victory

In the great decisive strife,

Ending death and bringing life.

‘Into your hands, Father, I

Place my spirit.’ At the last,

Jesus, when he came to die,

Thus in faith and love held fast,

Showing us how we too must

Give ourselves to God in trust.

Christ, our Sacrifice and King,

God’s example for us all,

Saving Lord of everything,

Raiser up of those who fall:

By God’s Spirit, your own breath,

Lift us up to life from death.

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ELECTORAL ROLL

REASONS TO BE ON THE ELECTORAL ROLL

1)To support your church and show that you are a registered member of your church family

2)To be able to attend and vote at the APCM. Your vote is important but you must be on the Electoral Roll.

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The Electoral Roll was completely revised in 2019, which means it was started from scratch and everybody needed to sign up, regardless of whether they had been on the Roll before.

Unfortunately, there are considerably fewer names on the new Electoral Roll than the old one. Clearly some people will have died or moved away, but, if you have not yet signed up, PLEASE do so now.

Names added from now until March 2021 will not count for the 2020 APCM but will be added when the Electoral Roll is updated for the 2021 APCM.

PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH. Thank you.

Chris Raffle, Electoral Roll Officer

JOIN OUR PARISH GIVING SCHEME AND HELP THE CHURCH

In April, I will be standing down as Treasurer for St James and St Mark after 15 years. This, and the impending closure of our local branch of Lloyds Bank from July has led me to review the variety of ways that people contribute financially and regularly to our church.

It seems to me that there are 3 linked objectives:

· To make giving easy

· To maximise the opportunities to recover gift aid where eligible

· Wherever possible to move away from cash giving which is the most labour-intensive process for the treasurer and will become even more so with the closure of the bank

The way of giving which best meets all of these objectives is the Parish Giving Scheme. Donations can be made on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis by Direct Debit. Even though the donations are made to the PGS, donations are transferred in full to the parish chosen by the donor and cannot be used elsewhere. Any gift aid associated with the donation is automatically transferred to the parish account avoiding the need for the treasurer to make a separate claim – which, in itself, is highly labour intensive and time consuming.

A unique feature of the scheme is the option for the donor to commit in principle to increase their donation annually in line with inflation. Whilst this is a voluntary decision, it is one that potentially could have a huge impact on the life and future of our church.

So, if you are not already a member of the scheme please consider joining by completing a Parish Giving Scheme Gift Form, available at the back of the church, using the code 064DURS to ensure the money comes to St James, or speak to one of the churchwardens or myself.

Peter Kirvan, Treasurer

Message from the editors....As you will all have a lot more time at home and hours to fill, why not look through your photo archives maybe and write something to make a magazine for May. If there is not sufficient material, and there is nothing to report and no future dates at the moment, we too will have to close.. So we beg you to keep the magazine going. Also many, many thanks to Clive for printing them for us.

Marlene, Valerie, Jenni and Judith

St Mark’s News

Dear Friends

As I ended my letter last month I was looking forward (or not), to my knee replacement operation. So, as I write now it’s four weeks behind me. I would be lying if I said it’s been easy, but I am getting about without any crutches and waiting (there’s a lot of that) for my stamina to return, the coronavirus to go away and the weather to improve! It’s not much to ask – is it? I have not yet returned to church, and am not likely too, any time soon by the looks of things. Early on in my recovery the Revd Jane was very kind and brought me home communion and we had a good old natter, which was very nice. I thank everyone for their prayers, cards and good wishes.

We also wish Nancy Walker belated Happy Birthday wishes for the 18th March when she celebrated a significant birthday.

Anyway it’s chin up, pray for each other, help each other as best we can and hope for the sun to come out.

With all Best wishes

Judith

I took this picture last year when we should have been at Chelsea Flower Show. So this year Clare and I decided to go and with my op out of the way we thought we were all set, but of course the best laid plans of mice, men and me etc........

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Movement to Music for the over 60’s

and less able of any age aims to improve

strength, mobility, co-ordination and balance.

Barbara Weldon

St. James Parish Centre, Dursley

Tuesdays

2.00pm – 3.30pm

You can be Standing or Seated.

Refreshments and Social time afterwards

For more information call

Barbara Weldon

01453 766421

email: [email protected]

MUSIC NOTES

April 2020

It's all about joining in! Quite by accident I found myself watching the Commonwealth Day Service televised live from Westminster Abbey, and was duly impressed with the way in which the C of E is so good at hosting large-scale formal occasions. However, as the cameras panned round during the hymns, I was amazed to see a complete lack of participation on the part of a substantial percentage of the congregation; some of whom didn't make the slightest effort even to mouth the words! The National Anthem too appeared to baffle many present.......although they may have been Republicans!

There is no doubt that, as a nation, we are in danger of losing the ability to sing communally (something which is more and more apparent at Weddings and Funerals) and this trend has its roots firmly in the classroom. Music as a curriculum subject is becoming squeezed to the point of extinction, especially in state schools where resources are stretched very thinly. It is sad to think that our future choristers and instrumentalists will mainly come from the independent sector, unless something is done to protect and encourage the importance of music on the school timetable. Much is made of team sports and the benefits of working as a team, but that is exactly what members of orchestras and choirs have to do!

In the latter years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century the Gloucestershire composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst along with Cecil Sharp (good name for a musician!) acted in time to save literally hundreds of traditional folk tunes from extinction. Many of these wonderful tunes (whose ancestry is lost in the mists of time) were incorporated into school song books for many years. I can vividly remember such gems as “Dashing away with the smoothing iron”, “O No John”, “Waly waly” etc sung in front of a large speaker broadcasting the BBC “Sing Together” programme aimed at primary schools.

Vaughan Williams and his contemporaries acted in time to save an important part of our musical heritage. Would that they were here today to rescue and preserve things like standard repertoire hymns, and

traditional folk tunes which have completely disappeared from the vast majority of schools.

In what seems to be a musical desert, it is heartening to note that in rural Wales school choirs are still considered important, and S4C (the Welsh language channel) does much to promote this. For example, the Urdd (Youth) Eisteddfod gets a whole week of televised coverage, and at Christmas 2019 a Carol Writing Competition was held. This was won by the school which my grandfather attended in 1905! Ironically my grandfather was completely tone deaf (!) but it didn't stop him singing hymns very loudly until my grandmother poked him in the ribs! But at least he joined in unlike a significant proportion of Westminster Abbey's Commonwealth Day service!Nigel Davies

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Bellringing

Bellringers Outing

Subject to developments regarding coronavirus, this year’s ringers outing will take place on Saturday 27 June. It will be based around Monmouth where we will end up. The first tower, confirmed, will be Cadicot and the last Monmouth, five towers in all which will be announced when they have confirmed our request to be able to ring. All are welcome to join us.

Cost will be £15 per head not including lunch which will be arranged beforehand.

To book a place on the coach, please contact Liz Byrne 01453 543536

Quarter Peals rung at St James’

On Sunday, 16 February 2020, In 45 minutes

1260 Grandsire Triples

1 Ian Unsworth; 2 Catherine White-Horne; 3 Anne Pope; 4 Elizabeth Byrne; 5 Timothy Soanes; 6 Philip Pope;7 Frank Byrne (Conductor); 8 Andrew Ward

For Choral Evensong

On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, In 46 minutes

1250 Yorkshire Surprise Major

1 Helen Binstead; 2 Lizzie Lindsell;3 Ian Unsworth; 4 Andrew Binstead

5 Timothy Soanes; 6 Elizabeth Byrne (Conductor);7 Frank Byrne;8 Philip Pope

For Ash Wednesday

Frank Byrne

Fundraising for Longfield

This year is being a tough one for seven of my friends, all of whom are on a cancer journey and very sadly one of them has just moved on to symptomatic control. The other six are enduring the rigours of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. It made me realised how lucky I am to firstly not have that diagnosis and secondly what a privilege it is to support them as they go through this difficult time. Prayer is such an important scaffolding to all support.

Longfield is our local service and although not all of my friends fall within their support area I wanted to give something to this amazing service for people with life limiting illness and their families, which wasn’t available at the time my dad died, when I was just 16. In those days you just had to rely on friends and family to get you through the before and after.

To this end I have signed up to do a 10,000ft free fall parachute jump on June 20th in aid of Longfield. I am actually quite a wimp when it comes to heights and you will never get me on a roller coaster or other theme park ‘fall’ rides, but terrifying as it sounds and I am sure it will be I have decided that it cannot be a scary as being told that you have a cancer diagnosis. So I am taking the plunge in both senses!

You may see me with a sponsor form after services but if anyone would like to sponsor me it is preferable to use my just giving page.https://www.justgiving.com/Caroline-Marrow

If any of you fancy joining me then I believe that Longfield are still looking for others to do the jump. Many thanks Caroline Marrow

Wednesday Writers

The group will need to go virtual for the time being. We will resume as soon as it is safe and feasible to do so. In the interim if anyone would like to correspond and put forward their ideas by email and/or via the Ewelme Benefice Facebook page, please do so.

I have just received the 2020 edition of the Writers and Artists Yearbook. At an initial glance there are good chapters on: Literary Agencies, Self Publishing, and The Publishing Process. I will digest all this information and more in the interim and then we can discuss later in the year. Meantime, regard the book as for general reference and if anyone would like to fire a question at me, I will try to find the right page in my big new book to give you an answer!

I am continuing with some poetry ideas of my own here and have sent some ideas away to publishers. However, it really is difficult at this stage to set the right tone as everything seems to have changed. I am trying to adjust to the changes and keep writing going at some level..

All best Elizabeth Oakley

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Being advocates for flourishing, through initiatives which combat injustice, environmental destruction, exclusion and isolation

Candles for change: Pauline Farman, Churn Valley Benefice

“What happens to your candle-ends; wax chipped off those window ledges following a carol service; wax shavings from making candle-ends fit; votive-candle bits and containers, etc? Does it all end up in the bin and subsequently in landfill? If so, there is a solution.

“Put your candle-waste into a separate bag or bin and it can be recycled. The Recycled Candle Company recycles candle-waste from cathedrals, churches, hotels, pubs and the general public. It is then made into new candles that they sell. It won’t make any money for your church, but it won’t cost you anything either, except you will know that you are helping the environment as it’s not going into landfill.

“You may think that the little waste you generate is negligible, but remember we have a cathedral, an abbey and hundreds of churches across the diocese who all use candles at some time or other and many in their congregations do so in their homes, and not just when there’s a power cut. So, don’t hide your light under a bushel (or landfill), recycle it and it will shine for longer. Diocesan Environmental Officer, the Revd Arthur Champion, the Revd Cate Williams and the Revd David Minns (Churn Valley) all endorse this scheme.”

Pauline says that she is happy to coordinate the collection of the candles. Contact: [email protected] To sign up for Eco Church visit https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk

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Bishop Rachel spoke in the House of Lords, during a session on topics around International Women’s Day and the United Kingdom’s role in advancing equalities for women everywhere....

My Lords, it is a privilege to participate in this debate although I am disappointed not to be at the UN Commission on the Status of Women this week which was to celebrate the Beijing platform for action, published 25 years ago, which saw countries agree to dedicate themselves unreservedly to addressing the constraints and obstacles to gender equality, thus enhancing the empowerment of women and girls all over the world.

Our own Government’s commitment to advancing equalities for women and girls worldwide is laudable, and I particularly welcome Baroness Sugg’s new role. The UK has a strong role to play, and girls’ education is crucial.

Last year, I had the privilege of visiting Egypt with the charity Embrace Middle East and visited some inspiring community projects enabling women and girls – Christian and Muslim – to be educated not only in literacy but also in issues of health including the prevention of FGM.

Education empowers women and girls to be agents of change in their communities which benefit everyone….

Across our world women and girls are also being agents of peace – and there are many examples. Last summer I visited a project in Israel where Jewish and Arab are working together to produce olive oil and other products – their business and relational concerns rise above division amidst political negotiations… which are being led by men.

Advancing equality is not only about women achieving positions in institutions that have been designed by and for men – it is also about wider society being shaped by women’s voices and experiences. It is also about men and women working together as equals. This benefits everyone and is about every person having equal value and the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

This commitment to justice and human becoming is core to Christian belief and faith. However, sadly this is not reflected in the continued prevalence of domestic abuse across our world, here in the UK, and indeed present among people of faith and no faith.

It is abhorrent – and I declare an interest as an ambassador of Restored, a charity that campaigns against violence against women. Violence against women affects every sphere of life and there are many groups across different faiths and around the world who are committed to gender justice and using their voices to be part of the solution. I was delighted last week to be alongside a passionate group of women, including Nicole Jacobs the Domestic Abuse commissioner, at the launch of the Faith and Violence against Women and Girls Coalition here in the UK.

So I look forward to the introduction of the Domestic Abuse Bill in your Lordships’ house, and constructive discussions about that legislation including proper intervention and support for children of domestic abuse, as well as migrant women. Anyone of any age and in any circumstances who is suffering domestic abuse deserves appropriate support and a path to safety.

So much of what we’re talking about today is rooted both in women and girls being valued – and being able to value themselves. So before I finish I want to touch on one final area which is that of women in the criminal justice system. A high percentage of these women have experienced some form of abuse themselves; self-esteem is low and we know that for many of these women, specific provision in the community, particularly in women centres, is far more effective regarding transforming lives and reducing crime.

As I have spoken about in your Lordships’ house before, I serve as Bishop to women’s prisons – and am President of the Nelson Trust – I welcomed the government’s production of a female offenders’ strategy in June 2018. This encouraged trauma-informed and gender-sensitive provision. Nonetheless the strategy is grossly under-funded – and the 5 million pounds of funding for community provision over two years, will run out in June. I hope the spending review takes account of the potential financial benefits of community alternatives to custody for women, notwithstanding their effectiveness for rehabilitation and wider society.

Sunday 1st October – Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

8.00amSaid Holy Communion at St James

10.00amParish Communion at St JamesTradecraft stall after the service.

11.30amHoly Communion at St Mark’s

Tuesday 3rd October

2.00pmHarvest Communion at the Hollies

10.00amJIMMY’S Toddler Group in the Parish Centre

7.30pmAll-age planning group Choir Room

Wednesday4thOctober

11.00am Home Communion at Henlow Court

2.30pmPrayer Group meets at St Mark’s

7.30pmDeanery Synod meeting at Wotton

5thOctober

3.00pmPastoral Group at the Rectory

Friday 6th October

10-4pmTyndale Art Trail in St James

Saturday 7th October

10-4pmTyndale Art Trail in St James

8thOctober – Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

8.00amSaid Holy Communion at St James

10.00amAll-age Service at St James

11.30amNo service at St Mark’s

12.00amHarvest Lunch in the Parish Centre

12.00-4pmTyndale Art Trail in St James

4.00pmChoral Evensong at St Mark’s

Tuesday 10th October

10.00amin the Parish Centre

9.30amParish Centre Committee Meeting

11October

10.15amHoly Communion at St Mark’s

12October

Saturday14th October

10.30amMessy Church in St James’

15thOctober– Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

Deadline for November Magazine Said

Parish Communion & Celebration of Nigel Davies’ 25 years at St James11.30amNo Morning Prayer at St Mark’s

1.00pmChoir Lunch in the Parish Centre


10.00amin the Parish Centre

19thOctober

Saturday 21st October

7.00pmCrossword Quiz night in the Parish Centre

22ndOctober– Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity

Parish Communion

11.30amMorning Prayer (BCP) at St Mark’s

6.30pmChoral Evensong


10.00amNO Half Term

Thursday 26th October

Friday 27th October

2.15pmPoetry Group meets in the Omega Rooms

Saturday 28th October

7.30pmVisiting Ringers from Bisley

Sunday 29th October – Last Sunday after Trinity

Magazine Issue

8.00amHoly communion at St James

10.00amParish Communion

11.30amMorning Prayer (CW) at St Mark’s

Tuesday 31st October

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Here is a recipe to try out now we have plenty of time and you have managed to get the ingredients.......

Hot Cross Bun Recipe.

300ml full-fat milk, plus 2 tbsp more

50g butter

500g strong bread flour

1 tsp salt

75g caster sugar

1 tbsp sunflower oil

7g sachet fast-action or easy-blend yeast

1 egg, beaten

75g sultanas

50g mixed peel

zest 1 orange

1 tsp ground cinnamon

For the cross

75g plain flour, plus extra for dusting

For the glaze

Tablespoon sugar

Mixed spice

3 Tablespoons water

Bring 300ml full-fat milk to the boil, then remove from the heat and add 50g butter. Leave to cool until it reaches hand temperature. Put 500g strong bread flour, 1 tsp salt, 75g caster sugar and 7g sachet fast-action or easy-blend yeast into a bowl. Make a well in the centre. Pour in the warm milk and butter mixture, then add 1 beaten egg. Using a wooden spoon, mix well, then bring everything together with your hands until you have a sticky dough.

Tip on to a lightly floured surface and knead by holding the dough with one hand and stretching it with the heal of the other hand, then folding it back on itself. Repeat for 5 mins until smooth and elastic. Put the dough in a lightly oiled bowl. Cover with oiled cling film and leave to rise in a warm place for 1 hr or until doubled in size and a finger pressed into it leaves a dent.

With the dough still in the bowl, tip in 75g sultanas, 50g mixed peel, zest of 1 orange, 1 finely chopped apple and 1 tsp ground cinnamon. Knead into the dough, making sure everything is well distributed. Leave to rise for 1 hr more, or until doubled in size, again covered by some well-oiled cling film to stop the dough getting a crust.

Divide the dough into 15 even pieces (about 75g per piece). Roll each piece into a smooth ball on a lightly floured work surface. Arrange the buns on one or two baking trays lined with parchment, leaving enough space for the dough to expand. Cover (but don’t wrap) with more oiled cling film, or a clean tea towel, then set aside to prove for 1 hr more.

Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Mix 75g plain flour with about 5 tbsp water to make the paste for the cross – add the water 1 tbsp at a time, so you add just enough for a thick paste. Spoon into a piping bag with a small nozzle. Pipe a line along each row of buns, then repeat in the other direction to create crosses. Bake for 20 mins on the middle shelf of the oven, until golden brown.

Gently heat sugar, water and spice to make the glaze, brush onto the hot buns.

If you do manage to make some, it would be really good to share them with your friends or neighbours being careful to keep a safe distance.

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Good Friday 2019

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Published: March 12, 2020..... Tributes have been paid to the former Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd David Bentley, who has passed away following his retirement to Lichfield.

Bishop David was Bishop of Gloucester from 1993 to 2003 and became an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield on his retirement.

He and his wife Clarice have had a long and happy retirement in Lichfield where they have enjoyed being active members of the Cathedral congregation amongst other local groups and societies. Bishop David died on Wednesday 4 March at Queen’s Hospital in Burton aged 84 after a short illness.

Pictured: Bishop David (left) with Bishop Rachel and Bishop Michael Perham, also a former Bishop of Gloucester.

Bishop Michael said: “Bishop David was a lovely man and a pastorally gifted bishop. It was truly a blessing for our diocese that Bishop David and Clarice retired to Lichfield and I appreciated his ministry here very much.”

The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, said: “It is with great sadness that I heard the news of Bishop David’s death. He was a faithful follower of Christ and showed integrity and care in his leadership in the Diocese of Gloucester and I am personally thankful for the privilege of being one of his successors.”

The Revd Canon Andrew Stead, Lichfield Cathedral’s Canon Precentor, said: “Bishop David was an active and supportive member of the worshipping community at Lichfield Cathedral. His ministry here in his retirement as well as his companionship and friendship has been valued and appreciated hugely by so many people. He was a man of great compassion and wisdom, encouragement and prayerfulness. We offer to Clarice and the family our condolences, our love and our prayers at this time. Bishop David will be sorely missed by so many and we give thanks for the blessing of having him here as one of us. May he rest in peace, and rise in glory.”

Bishop David was a loving and much loved husband, father and Grandpa. He and Clarice have four children and 13 grandchildren and he will be greatly missed. His two sons-in- law are also bishops in the Church of England. He was ordained in 1960 and served in Bristol and Guildford dioceses and as Bishop of Lynn in Norwich Diocese between 1986-1993 before becoming Bishop of Gloucester. His ashes will be interred at Gloucester Cathedral where he spent many happy years.

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Remembrance Poppies

This year the current poppies that we have need to be rearranged so that they hang better and consequently store more easily. The ones that, for the past two years, have hung on ribbons over the balcony need removing from the ribbon and sewing onto netting. The windowsill ones would also look better sewn onto strips of netting.

The additional display for this year will be around the statue of Mary in the Lady chapel and for this we will need an additional 500+ poppies. We will probably need some new poppies knitted to ensure an even cover across the whole balcony as well.

The renewing of the poppies can be done at home. I will cut the netting into pieces that will fit between the posts of the balcony or windowsills and so these will be manageable sizes. If you are able to help with this please catch me one Sunday or just turn up at a meeting in St James on Wednesday 6th May at 2pm. I hope at this time we will just spend about an hour taking the poppies off the ribbon and making up home sew parcels.

If you are able to start knitting poppies then please do so as these can be added to the packs in May and that way there is no last minute fixing. If you are reading this at home and unable to get to church but would like to help out with our tribute to our heroes then I can arrange to get a pack to you.

The poppies can be knitted or crocheted using any pattern, and in any shade of red. Please do not fasten a button for the centre as this added to the weight for hanging and makes attachment not so easy. If knitting simply knit the last two rows and cast off in black and if crocheting start with 1 or 2 black rows.

Looking forward to hearing from you and hopefully seeing many of you on 6th May – that is if we are allowed out but I’m sure there will be a way of achieving the refurbishment, meantime keep knitting!

Caroline Marrow

Mouse Diary….

When MBFTLP popped by to see if I was bearing up I was in my quiet corner with both paws covering my nose and whiskers. Well I can see you, even if you can't see me, said MBFTLP. Also you do seem glum. It’s the circumstances you see, I said, I am on my lonesome due to the general situation and the general situation means quite a lot of us are on our lonesome altogether if you see what I mean. As for me well in the end I had to resort to chatting to Himself Upstairs. So what did He say? said MBFTLP. I think, I said, it was along the lines of keep up the good work with the Romans. It was MBFTLP who scratched her head at this point rather than me. What have the Romans got to do with it? she enquired. Well, I said, I was just about to polish up my speech when the general circumstances came upon us and I stopped for the time being. But now I am here, said MBFTLP, you can let me know what your speech would have been like. Ok, I said, jumping up to perch on my plinth, (otherwise known as a couple of kneelers to you and me) whilst waiving both paws in the generally more optimistic direction of the upper firmament. It goes as follows: Friends, Romans, countrymen.. lend me your ears.. However, I don't think MBFTLP really got the message nor appreciated the spirit of the oratory on this occasion.. She was distracted by a letter she had received that morning. It's from The Easter Bunny, she said. Don’t remind me about him, I said, we have this every year. He bounces up and down the side aisles during the day and eats me out of house at home every evening before setting down to watch his favourite programmes and I can’t get a word in edgeways. Well look on the bright side this year, said MBFTLP. He says he is bringing all his friends and relations this year. So you will have lots of company after all and you won't have to worry so much about the general situation. I pondered this proposition for a moment and then agreed things might not be so bad after all for the time being. There is only one extra thing outstanding, said MBFTLP. In order to keep everyone on track could we have another special key at the bottom of your column?

Special Key

MBFTLP: my best friend the lady photographer;

Hypocaust: the sort of thing we need under the church floor in winter;

Legion: when you have a lot of something, (hopefully not too many of the Easter Bunny's friends and relations;

Whetstone: the kind of thing MBFTLP is lending me for weather forecasting:

Romans: down past Cam and near the station car park.

WHAT DO I BELIEVE AND WHY………..Jennifer Kendrick.

1. I believe God is omnipresent - in other words everywhere, all the time, has no age or shape, but is always available if we choose to stop what we are doing and quietly listen! He is a teacher, a friend, a guide and redeemer who advises but does not bully or insist on compliance.

2. God answered my prayers when my Granny asked me to promise to help her by not to crying at my Daddy's funeral! I cried a lot beforehand and smiled on the day!

3. God protected me when I stood, alone face to face with a very angry man threatening me with a knife in a small confined space. I remember being calm and very still and eventually escaped unharmed but have no idea how I got away!

4. I have believed in God for as long as I remember. Jesus has always been my very best friend. My granny used to sit me on her knee and sing "thine forever, God of love, hear us from your throne above, thine forever may we be, here and in eternity" and I felt safe.

5. There are so many Bible stories it is hard to pick just one, but I love Daniel in the Lion's Den that gives me courage to face difficult situations.

6. Everybody has an opinion about God, some positive, some not so positive. Reading, asking questions, thinking, talking, listening and hearing are all ways of gaining useful information.

7. The Holy Trinity for me is three parts of the same family. God the parent figure, Jesus the offspring and the Holy Spirit represents the elder whose wisdom and experience adds objective understanding to our thoughts. Individually effective, but together formidable!

8. Faith gives me comfort and reassurance that if I trust and obey my conscience, there will be support, even if the way is hard.,,,,

Wallowing in Nostalgia!

The weekend of the 8th - 9th February was probably not the best time to travel, and certainly not the best time to visit one of the country's windiest locations, but for a long time I had promised myself a trip to Blackpool in order to visit old haunts and in particular to attend the church where I was Assistant Organist.

As a sixth-form pupil at Blackpool Grammar School with Music as one of my A level subjects, I was taught by a young, rather brusque Yorkshireman called John Askew. Like many secondary school music teachers in the 1960's he also looked after the music in a local church; St Stephen-on-the-Cliffs. This was the Anglo-Catholic church (incense with everything!) in a town of twenty parishes. The boys and men's choir was of an excellent standard and the ceremonial was second to none. Having been vicar since 1950, The Venerable Geoffrey Gower-Jones was a force to be reckoned with, and ruled with a rod of iron. Pity help the server who moved diagonally in the sanctuary!

At that time I was singing in the choir at my father's church (in fact ,the neighbouring parish to St Stephen's) and was not getting much help or encouragement from his organist, so when the advert appeared in the press I applied, and out of four applications became the Assistant Organist at St Stephen's.

The salary was £25 a year which equates to 50p per week (but petrol was just 4s (or 20p) a gallon!) and I had a free organ lesson (worth £1 a session). For that I was expected to accompany services, (including the 6am Ash Wednesday service for men's voices), the Friday rehearsal and take the probationers' rehearsal at 9.30am on a Saturday morning. It proved to be invaluable training and it is something for which I am most grateful. Neither the Venerable (in the days when Archdeacons had parishes!) nor the Director of Music would put up with anything slip-shod, and all went like clockwork with around 250 communicants on a Sunday morning. So after a gap of over fifty years, I returned to St Stephen's, along with Storm Ciara, for the Solemn High Mass. Unlike just about every other Blackpool church which has not been demolished, St Stephen's remains almost exactly as it was back then. The service with all its ceremonial has changed very little; indeed one of the servers from 1967 was still serving! I found myself joining in without accessing the service booklet, but nearly got caught out as they still say “thee” and “thou”. However, I had no trouble in singing the creed to Merbecke's ancient music proving how some things “stick”. The Sunday School sat

at the front for the beginning of the service and left just before the sermon. After the service (8 minute sermon!), which lasted a couple of minutes over the hour, sherry was served in the recently completed west end.

In my day the services were accompanied on a rather lovely but small two manual Harrison organ placed in a similar position to that of St James' organ. In the 1970's the opportunity was taken to replace it with a large three manual Willis from a redundant church in Blackburn which just wouldn't fit into the organ loft, and so it was placed at the West end of the church in what is truly a hideous case! This instrument was rebuilt by a group of amateur organ builders and was never as good as it could have been in its new location. As early as the mid 1980's it began to give serious trouble, and by the end of the century it was replaced with a large digital instrument with the speakers planted in the hideous case. The pipes of the Willis organ remain in place.

The “new” organ is certainly loud and has much colour, but with a choir in single figures (5 on the day I went) it didn't need to be overtaxed! The hymns were slow and ponderous, with lots of “own speeds” in evidence. I found myself thinking that John Askew would definitely not have approved, and “words “would have been had, as there were when I got a couple of wrong chords in “O Thou the Central Orb”..........

Eventually John Askew moved to St John’s church in the centre of town for a few years until he (having taught at the Grammar School for nearly 40 years) and his wife retired to France. After his move from St Stephen's, just at the time I was completing my Teacher Training, the Archdeacon rang my father and asked if I would like to return to Blackpool and be his organist with the words “I'll see that he gets a teaching job”........such was the way of things back then!!But if you find yourself in Blackpool and feel the need for a good dose of incense I can still recommend a visit to St Stephen-on-the Cliffs. Just be prepared to breathe several times in the line of a hymn!

Nigel Davies

Church Mouse.....

Well, I have to say its been a bit of a squeeze on the home front this month. Why? Mr Knitted Dinosaur has got much too big for his boots. In fact, he is too big for the church. Jammed in that corner and with him looking more superior and supercilious by the minute, I have spent much of the last week wondering what to do about him. I tried poking, prodding, and pinching, but to no avail. Because I am such a little person, and he is about one hundred leagues taller than me with his head going up to the roof, all my efforts have sadly come to nothing. So I might have to seek some further advice. What to do if your special creation does not turn out as you had thought, does not do what you say, has got a life of its own, and can't be much bothered with you anymore? Ring any bells? I thought I might ask Him what to do. Because we have got to the stage whereby two was ok (Him and me) but three is a crowd, (Him, me, and Mr Dinosaur).

I do get cross because Mr Dinosaur is out of kilter with the zeitgeist (I normally have my paw on that as you know). He is not supposed to be here. He is supposed to be extinct and not here causing trouble for me in the church. Also, I did tell Mr Dinosaur that he is not in The Bible at all. Not even in the section with all the animals in Noah's Ark. I think his temper got rather inflamed at this point, because he banged his head on the roof and stomped about a bit in his corner. But offending him did not work either. He's decided to stay put. I suppose one way out might be for me to scarper off to theological college in order to study what to do if your creation runs pretty much amok on your own home patch. If I spend enough time on this he might be gone by the time I come back. Perhaps you could hold another barbecue in the churchyard and entice him out with nice smells of hamburgers, sausages and onions? (Something for me to come back for too).

Mouse was helped in the writing by Elizabeth Oakley

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WHAT’S WEIGHING YOU DOWN?

ON A RECENT RADIO BROADCAST, Dennis Rainey talked about Double Eagle II, the first hot air balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The men piloting the magnificent craft caught an air corridor that carried them all the way across the Atlantic. But when they were just off the coast of Ireland, they flew into heavy cloud cover and ice began to form on the Balloon’s outer shell. They lost altitude, dropping from twenty thousand to ten thousand feet in a matter of hours. They did everything they could to save the balloon. They threw out video cameras, food rations, and even a glider with which they had planned to land. At about four thousand feet they transmitted their location and then threw the radio overboard. Finally, at three thousand feet they broke through into sunlight. The ice came off in sheets, and the great balloon soared all the way into France. The Bible says that in order to run and win your life’s race, you must ‘lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares’. And it’s a lot easier to identify the sin you need to drop than the weight you need to drop. Why? Because often the weight is legitimate, and includes responsibilities, pressure, obligations, schedules, and entanglements. Today you need to stop and take an inventory of what you’re carrying. You need to face each thing squarely and ask yourself, ‘Did God give me this to carry, did someone else give it to me, or did I decide on my own to pick it up?’ Whatever is weighing you down today – lay it aside!

Excerpt from UCB Word for Today

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Breakwater

The wind's song

Sings at summer dusk.

Sails slip and pass and

Congregate in coteries.

Lights are consumed by

Surface sensations.

Behind, the spray flung

On rocks, resists.

This then is the

Premonition

You wanted to show me:

Eternity.

Elizabeth Oakley A Dursley Poet

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

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Michael Patrick Charles Easey 10th March at St James with burial in Dursley Town Cemetery

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You're there in almost every churchFortunately. A symbol of everyday care.We normally walk past incidentally en route To the fixed bright colours of the windows.

But then again, on the way back from there,Past the font and other architectural features,May wonder for a moment, and stop and stareAt your very varied beauty marking the year.

And then again, the stages of life in browns, Yellows or russet red, depending on whenWe just turned up on that ordinary day onOur tour of West country churches.

Elizabeth Oakley

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The Diocesan Messenger, August 2016

Journeying On – Vision 2016

Since early May, ideas, dreams and inspiration have been pouring in to the Vision Team at Church House, sent by churches and communities across the Diocese. From practical suggestions to broader ideas and concepts, a huge range of people have contributed. We have received feedback from pre-school children to those in their 90’s—everyone’s views have been included. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to respond.

Now we are in August all of this information has been collated and is being discerned and formed into key themes, which will shape the life of our Church for the next five years. The main body of this work will take place on the weekend of 4 and 5 August by a group of people from around the Diocese. We ask that you pray for this work and the people involved.

The themes and priorities that will be identified to form our Vision will be shared through the Vision newsletter on 12 September. We hope that people across the Diocese will then prayerfully reflect on this and discuss thoughts with their local clergy. There are plans in place to hold deanery wide meetings to provide feedback, which will be communicated soon. Please visit the vision website for more details HYPERLINK "http://www.vision2016.org.uk" www.vision2016.org.uk and subscribe to the Vision newsletter to receive updates and information.

Between 28 to 30 September, clergy from across the Diocese, informed by the conversations they have had, will come together to share thoughts about the Vision and its implementation. There will be the opportunity to refine the priorities that have arisen.

In October and November, the final refinements will be made to the Vision, alongside plans for how we will start to implement them.

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SUNDAY SERVICES

St James 8.00am Holy Communion

10.00am Parish Communion Junior Church and Crèche available. 6.30pm Evensong 2nd & 4th Sundays and festivals

For All-Age (family) and informal evening services, please see diary on the centre pages.

St Mark’s

11.30am 1st Sundays, Morning Prayer (BCP)11.30am 3rd Sundays Morning Prayer (CW)

WEEKDAY SERVICESSt James’

Monday to Saturday 9.00am Morning Prayer

Monday to

Thursday and Saturday 5.00pm Evening Prayer

Thursdays10.00am Holy Communion.

Home Communions by arrangement with the clergy.

CHURCHES CLOSED AND SERVICES CANCELLED

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