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Dear Friends
Here we are at the beginning of another year and the older you are the quicker they seem to come round.
Time for most of us is in short supply. We budget it as carefully as do our money. For the sake of our health we are encouraged to set aside some time for physical exercise, but dont forget our spiritual lives also reap benefits from a little careful planning.
For clergy the saying of the daily office means that prayer and bible study are built into their lives. For lay people it is not always practical to set aside a similar amont of time each day but just sixty minutes a week could make a considerable difference.
It has been calculated that it takes some 21 days to get into a new habit - but only 72 hours (3 days) to lose it! For most people, if they are not in the habit of daily prayer and bible reading, the interval between Sunday services is just too long. A solution could be to take just 60 minutes out of your week for your spiritual health; ten minutes to plan, three sessions of ten minutes a week to read a bible passage and pray about it. Twenty minutes to 'relax with God', to be with him, perhaps while walking or listening to music, or something else which you enjoy. This 'relaxation' time is special - it gives space to allow us to focus on what is important and to 'join up' all the different aspects of our lives.
One last word - or rather a 'first word'; don't forget at the start of your programme to ask for the guidance of the Holy Spirit without which all our good intentions inevitably come to nothing
oremus bible browser to prepare your readingThe traditional Plough Supper will be held in the Church Hall on Sunday 11th January 2004 following the evening service.
Tickets from Bill Flegg £ 3-00 each.
The Choir Kneelers are now ready to be worked on. If you are interested in making a kneeler or would like more details, please contact Kim Hallam (348178) or Liz Spratley (342401). You can either work the canvas, make–up the completed canvas into a kneeler or both.
Also if anyone would like to make a donation to help towards the cost of the kneelers please see either Liz or Kim.)
Many readers will know that our youth groups operate a Fair Trade stall at the back of church after the 10am service on the first Sunday of most months. This stall sells a wide variety of goods from around the world which have been traded to the benefit of their producers rather than that of multinational trading companies. Such trade helps the poor to work their way out of poverty and reduces dependency on aid - it is all part of the Christian mission to bring Good News to the poor.
If you wish to buy more fairly-traded goods, the Co-op's own brand of coffee is now entirely fairly-traded, along with their own brand chocolate which they converted to fairtrade a few months ago. It is good to see these things available in mainstream supermarkets at reasonable prices and of good quality, and it would be good to reward such progressive thinking, and to help the poor to help themselves, by buying these goods. (You'll still get the widest range from the youth group stall, though!)
Mark
The bells were rung half muffled on 2nd December in affectionate remembrance of our friend Terry Richmond. Our thoughts and prayers remain with his family.
There are a lot of homeless spiders in both the ringing chamber and the bell chamber. This is due to an early spring clean carried out recently by the ringing team.
Now that the spiders have gone we have a little more space for anyone who wishes to take up bell ringing. We meet most Friday evenings from 7.30 to 9.00 pm. Any beginners or ex ringers joining our happy team will be made most welcome.
Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas bookstall and to those volunteers who helped to man it. Special thanks to Ann and Cled, who returned unsold items to the Stamford Christian Bookshop.
Following this success, a range of books and other items with Lent in mind will be on sale after the 10 o'clock service on 8th and 15th February 2004.
Please let me know if you have any special requests.
Bet
Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, try to improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the shops, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths We take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Sounds attractive on your table as well as delicious
Grease a 2 pint pudding basin. Place all pudding ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat together for 2-3 minutes until well mixed. Divide in half and to one half add the cocoa powder and to the other the orange rind and colouring if used. Place dessertspoons of each mixture alternately in the basin. Level top and cover with foil. Steam for 1½-2 hours.
Sauce, place all ingredients together in a saucepan. Stirring continuously over a moderate heat, bring to the boil and cook for 2-3 minutes until thickened and smooth. Turn out the pudding and serve with the sauce.
Over the last few year Margaret Flegg has contributed a lot of recipes to this magazine, all of them very attractive. Whether you have carefully filed them or not, it is possible to find Margaret's recipes using the archived Internet edition of Priory News and searching for a recipe name or an ingredient. If you look at the left-hand side of this page you will see the Priory News Archive with a simple search engine: type in what you're looking for and click "Go". You will be presented with a list of the issues that mention that word, with the context in which it is mentioned. For example, searching for "beef" yields recipes in April 2001 and 2002 as well as two articles on farming and on food in Malaysia!
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