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In this edition

Face coveringsFrom 8 August, face coverings will be mandatory in places of worship. The Church of England continue to strongly advise that face coverings should be worn by all those attending a place of worship, including ministers, worshippers, staff, volunteers, contractors and visitors, where there may be other people present. Please remember that a face covering is not a replacement for physical distancing and regular hand washing.

Church calendar 4Parish letter 5The Transfiguration (6th August) 6Poetry Corner 7Psalm 40 8Archbishop Stephen 9Radegund (13th August) 13God in science 14To the Saints of the Diocese 15Clare of Assisi (11th August) 16The Lockdown Lifts 17Monica and Augustine 18Ways to give at Holy Trinity 19God in the arts 20Morning Prayer 21Wordsearch 22Crossword 24Recipe: Chocolate fudge cake 26Bible Bite 27Mouse Makes 28Sodoku 29


Church calendarAll are welcome to join us at our services. If you are new to Holy Trinity, please feel free to make yourself known to us. Refreshments are served after services on a Sunday.

If you are housebound, unwell or in hospital we can arrange to visit with Holy Communion. Please speak to a member of the ministry team.

Sunday 1 August 11.00am Holy Communion

Wednesday 5 August 12.15pm Holy Communion


Wednesday 12 August 12.15pm Sext



Sunday 23 August 11am Holy Communion

Wednesday 26 Aug 12.15pm Sext

Sunday 30 Aug 11am Holy Communion

Church openingsDuring the Coronavirus pandemic, the church building will be open on Sundays from 10.30am to 12noon and Wednesdays from 10am to 3pm.





Wednesday 12 August 12.15pm Sext



Sunday 23 August 11am Holy Communion

Wednesday 26 Aug 12.15pm Sext

Sunday 30 Aug 11am Holy Communion

Parish letterI will never forget the feeling when, on the 22nd March, I read the psalm, broadcasting on zoom for the first time, in an empty church. The quiet was eerie; the stillness unnerving. For months, the virus had been a world away, just a name that like so many others would bring havoc to people and places far away, but never reach here and never really affect me. I think reading the psalm and looking at the empty pews was the moment it really hit – this was not only serious, but potentially life changing.

Weeks of empty streets and endless statistics followed. Briefings told us the tragedy of the situation, people I knew became ill – dark times, yes, but buried deep in the darkness there was light. Like so many others, I enthusiastically clanged a wooden spoon against a pan and clapped the NHS on a Thursday evening. I made contact with people neglected for too long. I started painting! It was a way of coping and adapting to a new situation.

We at Holy Trinity, have all had to cope with a new situation on a Sunday morning – a new normal. It was amazing yesterday, Sunday 2nd August to see so many back at church again, to see our community worshiping together once more.

What both Adam and I would like to say is thank you. Thank you for your patience, your encouragement and your thanks! We all know that the new way of doing things on a Sunday morning is not how we would like it to be. It’s far removed from the services we are used to, but for the moment, this is the way it has to be. Church and government advice, mandatory rules and new laws have to be implemented. What is of absolute importance is that we keep everybody safe. We are doing this, we are all coping well with it and we are all back together!

Please keep the work of Holy Trinity and all the churches of York in your prayers as they open again and welcome their congregations back.

Mark Wharfedale, Churchwarden


The Transfiguration (6th August)

A glimpse of Jesus’ future glory

The story is told in Matthew (17:1-9), Mark (9:1-9) and Luke (9:28-36). It was a time when Jesus’ ministry was popular, when people were seeking Him out. But on this day, He made time to take Peter, James and John, His closest disciples, up a high mountain. In the fourth century, Cyrillic of Jerusalem identified it as Mount Tabor (and there is a great church up there today), but others believe it more likely to have been one of the three spurs of Mount Hermon, which rise to about 9,000 feet, and overlook Caesarea Philippi.

High up on the mountain, Jesus was suddenly transfigured before His friends. His face began to shine as the sun, His garments became white and dazzling. Elijah and Moses, of all people, suddenly appeared, and talked with Him. A bright cloud overshadowed the disciples.

Peter was staggered, but, enthusiast that he was - immediately suggested building three tabernacles on that holy place, one for Jesus, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. But God’s ‘tabernacling’, God’s dwelling with mankind, does not any longer depend upon building a shrine. It depends on the presence of Jesus, instead. And so, a cloud covered them, and a Voice spoke out of the cloud, saying that Jesus was His beloved Son, whom the disciple should ‘hear’. God’s dwelling with mankind depends upon our listening to Jesus.

Then, just as suddenly, it is all over. What did it mean? Why Moses and Elijah? Well, these two men represent the Law and the Prophets of the Old Covenant, or Old Testament. But now they are handing on the baton, if you like: for both the Law and the Prophets found their true and final fulfilment in Jesus, the Messiah.

Why on top of a mountain? In Exodus we read that Moses went up Mount Sinai to receive the sacred covenant from Yahweh in the form


of the Ten Commandments. Now Jesus goes up and is told about the ‘sealing’ of the New Covenant, or New Testament of God with man, which will be accomplished by His coming death in Jerusalem.

That day made a lifelong impact on the disciples. Peter mentions it in his second letter, 2 Peter 1:16-19, invariably the reading for this day.

The Eastern Churches have long held the Transfiguration as a feast as important as Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension and Pentecost. But it took a long time for the West to observe the Transfiguration. The feast starts appearing from the 11th and 12th centuries, and the Prayer Book included it among the calendar dates, but there was no liturgical provision for it until the 19th century.

Poetry Corner

The word became stretched and crept among us

It is the tense vocation of language to contain and constrain meaning. Some words are better than others − ‘alas’ sounds nothing like keening. Some words deepen another − to be troubled is to be found bereaving. It is the tense vocation of language to contain and constrain meaning.

Pádraig ó Tuama, from Sorry for Your Troubles.


Psalm 40 - desperation to security

‘I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.’ (Psalm 40:1).

‘Dear God, I pray for patience, and I want it now!’ Most of us can identify with this prayer, especially as we face an uncertain future. Psalm 40:1-3 describes how David waited patiently on God (lit: ‘I waited, waited for the Lord.’). Do we also intensively wait on God?

David speaks of falling into a deep, dark well and sinking deep into the sludge: ‘a slimy pit of mud and mire’. This expresses his desperate helplessness that threatened to take his life. We don’t know what David was going through, but in our current situation we can easily identify with him.

David cried out to God, who answered his prayer: ‘He lifted me out of the slimy pit, he set my feet on a rock’. There is a world of difference between quicksand and rock, as God lifts us from desperation to security. Waiting on God is not inactivity, but it means engaging in service to God and others, as we discern His will and accept His wisdom and timing.

In response, David offers praise to God: ‘He put a new song in my mouth. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.’ His song is an expression of gratitude and trust in God, who can deliver us from every sort of pit and mire. People of praise never take their life for granted and they are credible witnesses to others, with a personal story of faith to tell.

‘Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, who does not look to the proud.’ Whatever our current circumstances, we can confidently turn to God alone for help, as our loving heavenly Father.


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Twelve women and men who had prepared to be ordained Deacon in York Minster on Sunday 5th July, were Licensed during approved online ceremonies that afternoon to begin their ministry in a lay capacity in their training or 'title' parish in the Diocese of York. The law requires that an ordination service should include Holy Communion and be open to the public to attend; while public worship in the Church of England is subject to strict limitations due to the Coronavirus pandemic, this made ordination temporarily impracticable.

It is hoped that the candidates will be ordained in York Minster in late September, subject to confirmation in the coming weeks.

The candidates are introduced below; please uphold them all in your prayers as they begin their ministry in these unexpected circumstances, but confident of God's grace.

Lay Worker start for new Curates

Kirsty Dennett looks forward to serving as Assistant Curate in her home parish of Clifton, York. Vicky Earll will serve as Assistant Curate at St Michael-le-Belfrey, York. Will Ellis will serve as Assistant Curate in the Parish of Whitby. Jane Emson will continue to serve as a ‘Multiply Minister’ helping to build a new worshipping community at Brambles Farm and Thorntree in Middlesbrough. Nick Garside will serve as Assistant Curate in Rural Ainsty (Bilton in Ainsty; Healaugh; Hessay; Moor Monkton and Wighill). Phil Grayson will serve as Assistant Curate at Sherburn-in-Elmet with Saxton.

Fiona Hill will serve as Assistant Curate at Scarborough, St Columba and St James with Holy Trinity. Vanessa Kirby is thrilled that her curacy is at St Oswald’s and St Chad’s in Middlesbrough. Alan Leach will serve as Assistant Curate at All Saints, Rudston. Mark Poole is excited to serve God and His people as Assistant Curate in the Benefice of Rural East York (Dunnington, Holtby, Stockton-on-the-Forest and Warthill). Jane Robson will serve as Curate in Great Ayton with Easby and Newton under Roseberry. Richard Townend will serve as Assistant Curate at Emmanuel Church (East Riding Archdeaconry).

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Archbishop Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell took up the historic Braganza Crozier – his staff of office – in a short ceremony at York Minster, following the legal Confirmation of his Election as the 98th Archbishop of York. The Confirmation of Election marked the moment at which Stephen became Archbishop of York, and included music from York Minster Choir and Manor Church of England Academy, York.

In a video following the service, young people from across the north of England read a letter written by the mediaeval religious scholar Alcuin of York. Stephen offered his first address as Archbishop of York; prayers were offered for the new Archbishop, the Diocese of York and the Northern Province of the Church of England, as well as for the wider world in these difficult times.

Archbishop Stephen’s ministry begins

Archbishop Stephen


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Following the service, the new Archbishop made a short walk of pilgrimage through the streets of York to the shrine of St Margaret Clitherow, where he was welcomed by the Rt Revd Terence Drainey, Roman Catholic Bishop of Middlesbrough.

After a few moments of prayer, Archbishop Stephen returned

to the Crypt of York Minster where he prayed at the tomb of St William of York before moving to the Minster's High Altar to take up his Crozier where Archbishop Sentamu laid it down on the 7th June.

Knock three times In place of the custom for a new bishop or Archbishop to knock three times on the Cathedral Door with his Crozier to request admission to his Enthronement Service, Archbishop Stephen walked to the Minster's West End and knocked three times on the inside of the door which was then opened to the world.

Dean of York the Rt Revd Dr Jonathan Frost said, “This reversal of the usual symbolism is intended to signify the openness of the Church to the world and reflects Archbishop Stephen’s desire to share the good news of Jesus Christ with the communities it serves.”

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Archbishop Stephen said, “The Church is the body of Christ. As such we are being formed in his likeness to be sent out into the world to bring hope, healing and wholeness. I like the symbolism of opening up the doors of the church as we go out and see and be where God is already at work.

“As I take up the role of Archbishop of York, my focus will be on prayer, and I want to begin by praying for the unity of the Church, for all those persecuted, and for the Northern Province of the Church of England. May we be united as the body of Christ, of one mind and purpose to see God’s Kingdom here on Earth.”

A huge adventure Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said, “I am so excited about working with Archbishop Stephen to communicate the good news of Jesus Christ. The next few years are going to be a huge adventure. We will be exploring our way into being a new Church in a new world.

“I’m sad we’re not able to all be together in York Minster to celebrate, yet. But we know that God is present to us at all times through the Holy Spirit. I’ll be praying for Archbishop Stephen as he officially begins his new ministry and as we begin that new adventure.”

The Dean of York added: “We look forward to being able to gather more fully to celebrate the beginning of Archbishop Elect Stephen’s ministry in due course. For now, we are happy to welcome Stephen and his family in great love and we pray for him as he prepares for the challenges and the joys that his office will bring.”

“May we be united as the Body of Christ…”


God in scienceParable: The Strength of a SeedAt this time of year we enjoy the fruits of our gardens, fields and hedgerows: vegetables ripen, crops are harvested, and berries begin to show bright among the leaves. Much of this growth started with a few seeds in spring: the miracle of life coming from small dead-looking things. There is a league table of long-lived seeds. The winners so far are from the narrow-leafed campion, buried by squirrels in the Siberian permafrost over 30,000 years ago. When those seeds finally germinated, they became healthy plants that flowered and produced seeds of their own.

The Bible contains many links between seeds and spiritual growth, and the parable of the sower is the most famous (in Matthew 13). A person may hear or experience something of God which has the potential to germinate into a life of following Him, resulting in the fruit of others coming to know God too. But things can happen that snatch that seed away, killing it before it has finished germinating, or choking its growth.

What about the knowledge of God that gets trampled, churned too deep in the mire of life to receive the warmth and light it needs to develop into faith? Buried seeds don’t always die, but they can lie dormant, remaining alive but inactive until the earth is turned over. The possibility of that moment of connecting with something divine, scrap of knowledge, or snatch of conversation resulting in a changed life may seem infinitesimally small, but it’s not zero. The seed may be incredibly tough, just waiting for a chance to grow.

The Gospel narrative plays on the fact that it took a long time for the disciples to understand the full implications of Jesus’ teaching: a germination process that took many of them three or more years. They could have been discouraged, but Jesus was not. I don’t think it’s too much of stretch to draw out of the parable of the sower to include the observation that it can take a long time, sometimes decades, for people to work their way through the various barriers, sticking points, and phases of forgetfulness that may keep them from following through on their spiritual experience. When we finally receive – or are open to – the encouragement, challenge, or experience that helps our faith in Christ grow, we can experience the rich fruit of a transformed life.


Radegund (13th August)St Radegund (518-87) is a saint for anyone who has suffered domestic abuse. She is also a reminder that domestic abuse can occur in any family, however wealthy, and can span the generations, so that some women go straight from violent father to violent husband.

Radegund was born in 518, the daughter of Berthaire, king of Thuringia in east-central Germany. Berthaire was a brutal man, and Radegund grew up surrounded by violence and intrigue. When she was only 12, she was captured by the Franks, converted from paganism to Christianity and at 18 was given in marriage to Clotaire, a king of the Franks.

Sadly, Clotaire’s nominal Christianity did not affect his own natural bent for violence and immorality. Though Radegund was said to have been both beautiful and good, Clotaire was repeatedly unfaithful to her, ridiculing her for her childlessness. When, six years into the marriage, Clotaire murdered Radegund’s brother, she fled the court for her life, and sought refuge in the Church.

Radegund took the veil at Noyon, and became a deaconess, known for her alms-giving. But it seems that a lifetime of violence had left deep scars on her spirit, and instead of enjoying her newfound peace and freedom, Radegund turned savagely upon herself. She became an extreme ascetic, refusing most foods. She began to self-harm, binding her neck and arms with three iron circlets which badly cut into her flesh. Sadly, it seems that although her body was freed from the violence of her father and husband, her spirit was still in subjection to violence and suffering. Though she was a Christian, she never took her rightful possession of the joy, love and peace that God offers to all believers through the grace of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Still, Radegund meant well and God blessed her as much as she would let Him. She founded the monastery of Holy Cross at Poitiers, which became a centre for scholarship (the nuns spent two hours a day in study) and also of Radegund’s various peace-making activities.

Various ancient churches in France and England were dedicated to her, as well as the Cambridge College now known as Jesus.


Clare of Assisi (11th August)Prayer and simplicity

In the year 1212 Clare, the 18-year-old daughter of a local Count, heard a young preacher called Francis. A few years earlier he had caused a sensation in the centre of the town where they both lived, Assisi in Italy, by stripping himself of his wealthy clothes and declaring that from now on he would live the life of a peasant. This, he said, was in obedience to the call of Christ, for whom the poor were ‘blessed’ and the rich were in peril of judgment.

Francis gathered a group of seven men prepared to embrace what he called ‘joyful poverty’ for Christ’s sake, but that day he was to enlist a female disciple. ‘You are a chosen soul from God’, he told Clare, when she expressed her eagerness to embrace the same strict rule as his male followers.

In due course, after a period in a Benedictine convent, Clare and her sister Agnes moved into the church of St Damiano, which Francis and his friends had restored, and gathered there a group of like-minded women. Eventually Francis made Clare the abbess of a religious Order, at first called the ‘Order of Poor Ladies’, eventually, and universally, to be known as the ‘Poor Clares’. Unable to operate an itinerant ministry like the men, Clare’s sisters concentrated on a life of prayer and simplicity. In fact, their dedication to poverty was such that it affected the health of many of them.

Francis and Clare remained friends and colleagues over the next 14 years in this remarkable movement of renewal and mission. During the preceding century (as we can learn from Chaucer, among others) the religious Orders had in many cases substituted indulgence for discipline. Francis and Clare found this scandalous, and despite opposition from high places, set out to demonstrate that an effective Christian message required an appropriate Christian lifestyle. For them, poverty was not a burden but a joy - a release from the delusions of power and ambition. Their witness made an enormous impact on the poor people of Umbria and beyond, who saw an authenticity in


their lives which spoke as eloquently as their words.

Clare helped to nurse Francis through his final illness, which lasted several years. She lived for 27 years after his death, like him suffering from the effects of long years of strict austerity. She died in 1253 and was canonised two years later. She is buried in the basilica of St Clare in Assisi, a few hundred yards from the basilica of St Francis. In life they proclaimed the same message of sacrificial love and service, and in their deaths they were not divided. Her special day is 11th August.

The Lockdown Lifts

There's life in the town! No longer 'locked down'! The people stroll out in the sun The majestic trees Sway in the light breeze Like they wanted to join in the fun!

Like light after dark! We can walk in the park! Buy our tea, and sit out on the grass! We can chat to our friends As our loneliness ends And we smile at the strangers we pass!

Yes there are still queues Which cease to amuse But things are no longer so black! As they sing in that song - You miss what is gone, But it's great when at last it comes back!


Monica and Augustine (27th and 28th August)

Mother and son

On consecutive days this month (27th and 28th) the Christian Church celebrates a mother and her son. The mother is Monica, and her son is Augustine. The story of their relationship and how, after a long process, they both came to share the same Christian faith is a moving one, and perhaps has a message for anxious parents today.

Augustine was born in 354 and grew up in north Africa in the area we now call Algeria. His mother, Monica, was a deeply committed Christian. His father was not. In those circumstances she was deeply (one might say desperately) concerned that her clever young son should also believe and be baptised. But, in the way of wilful offspring, he steadfastly refused. Eventually Monica’s patience ran out. She stood outside the priest’s house and noisily asked why a mother’s anxious prayers had not been answered. He appeared at a window and rebuked her. “It is not possible,” he said, “that God has not heard your prayers and will answer them in His own way.”

He was right, but it took a long while. By now Augustine had a mistress and a young son, and had moved to Milan in Italy, where he became Public Orator. However, it eventually happened – a moment of conversion in a garden, instruction and then baptism by the great Bishop Ambrose of Milan. Monica’s prayers were answered. Her gifted son was ordained and shortly became a bishop in Hippo, north Africa, and one of the greatest theologians and teachers of the Christian Church. Monica died the year before that happened, but I think we may assume that she died content. Her priest many years earlier had been right!

You can read the story of Augustine’s journey to faith in his ‘Confessions’.


Ways to give at Holy Trinity

While the Church is closed, although expenditure is less, we still have to pay our bills, keep the building in order and, most importantly, sustain the worship and ministry of this Church.

Giving by standing order is the best way of giving, and we encourage any one who considers Holy Trinity Micklegate ‘their church’ to give in this way if possible. However, not all, of course can do that. If you normally give by putting an envelope in the plate, do think about giving similarly while we are unable to gather for worship together. Details of how you can make an individual donation (or indeed set up a monthly one) are shown below.

Thank you: your generosity helps us to survive and thrive.

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God in the arts

The Transfiguration – beholding the Glory

TQ – Tingle Quotient – is the name given to those things that can produce a tingle down the spine or a frisson of excitement. It could be a piece of music or the sight of an evening sunset at sea. We look, we hear, and our sense of wonder as something sublime unfolds before us produces delight and awe. We see a hint of glory that can even lead us to worship.

I think the monk who lived in cell no 6 at the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence must have felt that when he entered his room and saw for the first time the fresco of the Transfiguration that Fra Angelico had painted. I am sure the sight would have stopped him in his tracks, just as Peter, James and John were stopped in their tracks as they beheld their Lord transfigured before them on the mount.

From 1436 Fra Angelico painted a whole series of frescoes for the convent from the High Altar to the Chapter House to the cells of the monks. Here in cell no 6 there is a restrained simplicity and directness about the Transfiguration. One of the three disciples looks out towards us, while the other two are caught up in wonder and awe as they look on Jesus with the faces of Moses and Elijah on either side.

Here Fra Angelico is not seeking to impress a wealthy patron: he is providing a focus for devotion and prayer for the monks of his community. The scene speaks to us of that sense of awe and reverence.

On August 6 we celebrate the feast of the Transfiguration. The Gospel accounts relate that special moment of revelation to the inner group of disciples. The glory shown to them evoked a sense of wonder and marvel, but also a sense of loss. For the glory proved elusive and just out of human reach. The moment of revelation passed, and the disciples had to go down the mount again to meet the crying needs


of the world, all but forgotten when they were with their Lord on the mountain top.

The monk in his cell would ponder the glory of Fra Angelico’s fresco, knowing that he would be called from his cell to take up his monastic duties. But the painting would go with him to sustain and nurture his life. It is the same with us: we have moments of glory. But they pass, and we must return to our daily lives. As we look on this month’s painting, we sense that glory and wonder which can sustain us through life. As Thomas Jones says in his poem on this episode: Like a pearl we hold Close to our hearts what we have heard and seen.

Morning Prayer

When morning in russet and saffron clad Is mantling the hills in a dew-soft plaid To the song of the moorland two-wings glad Let my heart upraise;

When light creeps in through the chinks of the door When the mist ascends from the mountain floor, When the ocean shimmers like burnished ore, Let me give thee praise.

O God of the morning, Christ of the hills, O Spirit who all the firmament fills, O Trinity blest who all goodness wills, Keep us all our days.

From Prayers of the Western Highlanders


Wordsearch - The Transfiguration

August is a quiet month as far as the Church calendar is concerned, except that during the 11th century, some church fathers slipped in an important day - the Transfiguration of Jesus, when His disciples were given just a glimpse of His future glory (Matthew 17, Mark 9, Luke 9).

Jesus took Peter, James and John, his closest disciples, up a high mountain. This is often identified as either Mount Tabor (there is a great church up there today), or one of the three spurs of Mount Hermon, which overlook Caesarea Philippi. High up on the mountain, Jesus was suddenly transfigured before His disciples. His face began to shine as the sun, His garments became white and dazzling. Elijah and Moses, of all people, suddenly appeared, and talked with Him. A bright cloud overshadowed the disciples, and a divine Voice spoke out of the cloud, saying that Jesus was His beloved son, whom the disciples should ‘hear’. God’s dwelling with mankind depends upon our listening to Jesus.

Then, just as suddenly, it is all over. What did it mean? Why Moses and Elijah? Well, these two men represent the Law and the Prophets of the Old Covenant, or Old Testament. But now they are handing on the baton, if you like: for both the Law and the Prophets found their true and final fulfilment in Jesus, the Messiah.

That day made a lifelong impact on the disciples. Peter mentions it in his second letter, 2 Peter 1:16 - 19 - invariably the reading for this day.


Answers on the back page.


Crossword

ACROSS1 and 3: Two of the disciples who witnessed the transfiguration of Jesus (Luke 9:28) (4,3,5)3: See 1 Across 8: ‘Let us draw — to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith’ (Hebrews 10:22) (4) 9: O Simon is (anag.) (8) 11: Form of government under the direct rule of God or his agents (10) 14: How Jesus found his disciples when he returned to them after



praying in Gethsemane (Luke 22:45) (6) 15: In The Pilgrim’s Progress, the name of the meadow into which Christian strayed, which led to Doubting Castle (2-4) 17: Glad sin rat (anag.) (10)20: Spinal column (Leviticus 3:9) (8) 21: Valley of the Balsam Tree with a reputation of being a waterless place (Psalm 84:6) (4) 22: ‘The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of one — — sees clearly’ (Numbers 24:3) (5,3) 23: Adam and Eve’s third son (Genesis 4:25) (4)

DOWN1: David’s great friend (1 Samuel 20:17) (8) 2: ‘The Lord... will bring me safely to his — kingdom’ (2 Timothy 4:18) (8) 4: ‘I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; — — or wine touched my lips’ (Daniel 10:3) (2,4) 5: Seeking to vindicate (Job 32:2) (10) 6: Female servant (Isaiah 24:2) (4) 7: ‘For Christ died for — once for all’ (1 Peter 3:18) (4) 10: ‘Offering spiritual sacrifices — to God through Jesus Christ’ (1 Peter 2:5) (10) 12: Jesus said that some people had renounced this ‘because of the kingdom of heaven’ (Matthew 19:12) (8) 13: One of the three men thrown into the furnace for refusing to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image (Daniel 3:20) (8) 16: ‘You have — of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry’ (Luke 12:19) (6) 18: ‘There before me was a white horse! Its rider held — — , and he was given a crown’ (Revelation 6:2) (1,3) 19: Equipment to Charity Hospitals Overseas (1,1,1,1)


Recipe: Chocolate fudge cakeHere is a quick and delicious chocolate cake to lift the spirits. The chocolate fudge icing which accompanies this treat is also the easiest, most economical, and delicious that I’ve yet discovered, and doesn’t require much butter, icing sugar, or much sieving.

Ingredients for the sponge280g (10 oz) plain flour 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda2 tablespoons cocoa powder 2 eggs400g (14 oz) sugar 225ml (7 fl. oz) milk or yogurt90ml (3 fl. oz) vegetable oilIngredients for the icing200g (7 oz) granulated sugar 50g (1½ oz) cocoa60ml (2 fl. oz) milk 50g (1½ oz) butter1 teaspoon vanilla

Method1. Heat the oven to 375ºF/180ºC/Gas 5 and line a large roasting tin

with baking parchment, or for a large sandwich cake, prepare two deep sandwich tins.

2. Put all sponge ingredients into a food processor. Whizz all the ingredients together to form a smooth batter. If you do not have a food processor, simple mix together the dry ingredients, separately mix the wet ingredients, them combine the two.

3. Put the tins in the oven and bake for about 25 minutes, or until a knife can be inserted into the cake and come out clean.

4. Allow the cake to cook for a few minutes, and then lift out and cool on a wire rack.

5. Now for the icing. Put all the ingredients in a saucepan in which you can use an electric whisk, if you have one. If not, time for some elbow grease...!

6. Bring the mixture gently to the boil so that the sugar melts as it heats, and then boil for one minute. Then whisk the mixture for three minutes until it is soft and thick.


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Crossword answersACROSS: 1, John. 3, And James. 8, Near. 9, Omission. 11, Theocratic. 14, Asleep. 15, By-path. 17, Stalingrad. 20, Backbone. 21, Baca. 22, Whose eye. 23, Seth.

DOWN: 1, Jonathan. 2, Heavenly. 4, No meat. 5, Justifying. 6, Maid. 7, Sins. 10, Acceptable. 12, Marriage. 13, Shadrach. 16, Plenty. 18, A bow. 19, ECHO.

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Wordsearch answersTransfiguration; Jesus; mountain; Tabor; Hermon; Caesarea; Philippi; high; shine; face; cloud; transformed; white; dazzling; Elijah; Moses; dwelling; mankind; Law; Prophets; Peter; James; John; fear; glory

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