Pew Sheet – 5th January 2025
Dates for your Diary
Monday 6th The Epiphany
10:30am Holy Communion, St Mary’s Church
Wednesday 15th
M.U. All Ireland Holy Communion Service 10.30 a.m. St Mary’s Church with Teas/coffees afterwards in the Parish Hall.
Saturday 18th
Reading Workshop 10 till 12 St Mary’s Church
Wednesday 22nd
7:30pm Ecumenical Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, St Mary’s Church
Thursday 23rd
5-6:30pm Confirmation Classes begin in the Parish Hall.
Saturday 25th
8pm The New Year’s Ball Canon McCrea Hall 25euros
February
Sunday 2nd Candlemas
9:30/11am Services as normal
5pm Service of Wholeness and Healing St Mary’s Church
Wednesday 5th
8pm First of the Zoom online talks ‘The Music of our Praise – the wonderful world of music for worship’. (continuing on Wednesdays 12th & 19th)
Reading Workshop
If you are interested in reading the lessons in church, please do put this date in your diary.
St Mary’s Church from Saturday 18th January 2025 from 10am until 12 noon.
The Rector will conduct a Workshop designed to help you understand what reading in Church really means. It is not just about getting up to the lectern each Sunday and reading aloud some text, but about proclaiming the word of God in time-honoured fashion in our Christian community.
Just let the Rector know if you’d like to take part so that she can have enough booklets printed.
Confirmation classes
The Confirmation Classes begin on January 23rd.
They will be held in the Parish Hall each Thursday from 5pm until 6:30pm. Candidates will need to get in touch with the Rector as soon as possible as it isn’t possible to join in the classes once they’ve begun
The New Year’s Ball
25th January 8pm Canon McCrea Hall St Mary’s School, Waterpark Tickets : 25 euro
More details nearer the time but put the date in your diary now!
Music Notes 05-01/2025
Hymns at St Mary’s
128 Hills of the North, Rejoice!
643 Be thou my vision
195 Lord, the light of your love
646 Glorious things of thee are spoken
Our opening hymn today was written by Charles Oakley (1832-1865) at the request of Thomas Valpy French (1825-1891). French worked for the Church Missionary Society in India and became the first Bishop of Lahore in 1877. The missionary spirit was a strong feature of the Protestant faith during the nineteenth century and the words of the hymn as they appeared at the time reflected the idea of the world-wide mission of the church. The text was later altered to reflect a more modern inclusivity in the thought that the light of Christ shines in all corners of the globe.
The names of tunes are often interesting and tell us something about the life of the composer. In this case, Martin Shaw composed the tune Little Cornard giving the hymn a fresh popularity when it appeared in 1915. Shaw spent his honeymoon at Little Cornard which is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. The beautiful All Saints Church in the village dates to the 14th-15th century and has two bells in the tower dating to 1399.
All Saints Church, Little Cornard
If you are interested in history and village churches, may I recommend The Salisbury Organist on YouTube which features small village churches and their organs – beautiful buildings and an insight into the world of the village organist.
Bébhinn 087 2285965 bebhinnmuire@gmail.com
After a quiet year in 2024 our drama group is planning to stage 3 One act plays in early May.
Preliminary readings for these plays will take place on Monday 13th January in the Parish hall at 7.30PM.
We would like to encourage as broad a range of participants as possible
Newcomers are especially welcome and previous experience is not a requirement.
Random Notes CDLXXVII
Odd British place names (from long-winded to weird)
Boat of Garten. Gatehouse of Fleet. Ramsey Forty Foot. Hetton-le-Hole. Great Slaughter. Great Snoring.
Nether Wallop. Wookey Hole. Wombwell Bachelor’s Bump. New Invention. Dollar. Queen Camel. Pratt’s Bottom. Up Down Goosey. Honsey. Crook. Boggy Bottom. Haltwhistle. Applecross. Twatt. Barking Battle. Church. Rock. Sandy. Hassocks. Stone. Mousehole. Amble. Angle. Puddletown. Wool. Wigtown. Wick. Peel. Appletreewick. Piddletrenthithe. Glossop. Great Longstone. Leatherhead. Yelling. Dull. Ugly. Foulness.
Blackness. Muck. Mold. Eye. Tongue. Upton Snodbury. Kippen. Loggerheads. Sale. Brindle. Settle. Tiptree. Chipping Sodbury. Ecclefecham. Bitchfield. Sizewell. Upper Swell. Oakegates. Pudsey. Giggleswick. Rum. Ramsbottom. Ripple. Tow Laes. Tong. Beer. Old Scone. Saltcoats. Bunny. Foxholes. Nomansland. Shotts. Burntisland. Henfield. Cowbridge. Duckinfield. Catford. Deer. Leek. Liphook. Yell.
And, finally, Symond’s Yat (if you don’t know what a Yat is, that makes two of us!)
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