Deeping St James Parish Church Magazine
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From the Curate
Dear Friends,
One of the alarming things about preparing a calendar for the parish magazine each month is how quickly the time seems to fly by. Already it's September and two thirds of the year has gone.
Many will feel sad to see the end of summer with its opportunities for outdoor living and holidays and trips further afield, but each season brings its own benefits. The demise of the warmer weather also brings, if not the end of, at least a reduction in mowing the lawn and bites from insects…then there's the possibility of enjoying things that would be to oppressive in the heat, like toasted teacakes round the fireside…quite apart from joys like brisk walks through the woods resplendent with autumn tints.
There's much to look forward to at Church too as we gather for worship and hear once more the regular contributions from our choir and children's groups back from their holidays as well as the special events and celebrations happening each month. As the darker days draw near, the benefits of the new lighting system will be even clearer!
We cannot stop the march of time, but by taking each day and season, enjoying their benefits and giving thanks to God for them, we make every day meaningful and ourselves closer to God and his love.
Readings for September
To see your reading in advance without having to mark your bible pages, you can copy your reference and paste it into the oremus Bible Browser (or type in your reference) and print out the reading. The translation used in church is the New Revised Standard Version.
3rd September, 12th Sunday after Trinity:
- Morning: Deuteronomy 4: 1-2, 6-9; James 1: 17-end; Mark 7: 1-8, 14-115, 21-23
10th September, 13th Sunday after Trinity:
- Morning: Isaiah 35: 4-7a (08:00 only); James 2: 1-10, 14-17; Mark 7: 24-end
- Evening: Exodus 14: 5-end; Matthew 6: 1--18
17th September, 14th Sunday after Trinity:
- Morning: Isaiah 50: 4-9a; James 3: 1-12; Mark 8: 27-end
24th September, 15th Sunday after Trinity:
- Morning: Solomon 1: 16 - 2: 1, 12-22; James 3: 13- 4: 3, 7-8a; Mark 9: 30-37
Home Groups
- Bible Study: On holiday until September
- Priory Prayer Group: 7th and 21st September at 19 Ascendale
- House Group: Every Wednesday, 7.30 pm at 45 Crowson Way - Everyone welcome
Notices
2006 Lincolnshire Historic Churches Trust Sponored Cycle Ride and Walk
The sponsored cycle ride in aid of church and chapel preservation across the County is being held this year on Saturday 9th September, and sponsorship forms are available in church with lists of participating churches and chapels. If you would like to take part in the ride or walk, please collect your forms and gather your sponsors while you can.
If you are not riding but can afford time to man the church to welcome visitors, there is a sign-up rota on the display board inside the church: please sign up and be ready to greet riders and sign their forms.
Music on the Lawn
The social committee are pleased to announce that £ 583-49 was raised towards the Hall Refurbishment at the concert on 15th July. It was truly a wonderful evening and everyone who contributed is thanked for their support.
Church Ladies Fellowship
The fellowship starts again on 7th September at 7-45pm with the opening service in the Church followed by a bring and share supper in the Church Hall. New members are welcome to share our friendship at any time, to listen to speakers, go on varied outings including a evening meal at a local restaurant. Ring Margaret Flegg for further information.
Alpha Supper 2006
The next Alpha Supper will be held on 14th September at 19:30 at the Vicarage. All are welcome: please bring someone you know who might like to know about the Alpha Course without obligation. There is no charge for the supper, and there is a recorded talk by the Rev Nicky Gumbel about the Course.
It would help enormously if those who intend to come would let the Vicar or Martin Fisher (423959) know a few days in advance, please. If you've done the course yourself, do come along to the supper with a guest. We look forward to seeing you.
Harvest Thanksgiving, Lunch and Auction
The harvest festival this year is on 1st October. Gifts this year will be auctioned to help the less-fortunate, and any suitable foods would make an excellent gift to thank God for his great goodness in supplying our needs and raising funds to redress the imbalance in humankind's distribution of God's material gifts.
Following the service the annual Harvest Lunch & Auction of produce will take place in the Church Hall. A hot Lunch of Chicken Pie & Vegetables followed by assorted sweets will be served at 12-00pm. Wine or fruit juice will be served as part of the meal.
Tickets are available from Bill Flegg, adults £5-00 children under 12 £3-00 (please note that the number of tickets are limited).
Those not attending the lunch are always welcome to come to the auction which should commence at approx 1-15pm.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Wedding Celebration
A wedding is one of life's great moments, a time of celebration and joy involving family and friends. While we cannot have the day itself all over again we can all join together in God's presence to thank Him for the gift of marriage, to share in our memories, and for those who are husband and wife, to recall the vows they have made to one another.
Everyone is invited to this celebration on Sunday 24th September at 3pm which begins with the Thanksgiving Service in Church. The bells will be ringing and the music will include a selection of wedding favourites.
Refreshments, (including a wedding cake!) will be served afterwards in the Church Hall. Bring your wedding photographs to share with us all!
News from Explorers, Climbers and Scramblers
Our summer break ends on Sunday 10th September, starting off in Church at 10am. The first few minutes of the service will be used for the commissioning of the leaders, assistants and helpers of our Children's Groups and then the children will be taken to their groups for their session in the Church Hall and return, as usual, for their blessing and refreshments after the service.
We shall begin September by looking at the early life of David the shepherd Boy and see how he was protected by God during his early life before he went on to be Israel's greatest king.
This year our celebration of harvest will focus on the abundance of quality and choice which we have in this country, and thanking God for it. We shall be using resources which Tear Fund have developed and contrasting our varied diet with that of the Quechua families who live high in the Bolivian Andes. 'Food' is 'lawa', a wheat and potato hot broth, and is the same whether it is breakfast, lunch or dinner - if you are lucky enough to get three meals a day, that is. Stunted growth and reduced immune systems are rife among these people so we shall be looking at how we can help with a new project which is supporting the Quechua to build and maintain greenhouses. This will enable them to grow fruit and veg to vary their diet and introduce essential vitamins and minerals.
Explorers (7 - 11), Climbers (5 - 7) and Scramblers (under 5) are on holiday now but will meet again on Sunday 11th September at 9.50am in the Church Hall. New members are always welcome. Please contact Andrea (Climbers and Scramblers) on 344926 or Alison (Explorers) on 345890 for more details.
Priory Online
We try to keep up-to-date information on this site for parishioners and potential visitors alike, and if you have a question about what is going on at the church, it is often easier and quicker to look at the website than to telephone the Vicarage!
The parish church's rotas are posted on the front page of the site, in the left-hand column below the navigation buttons, along with the PCC agenda and other useful notices. The relevant notices for the week are headlined in the centre column. News and information for the children's and youth groups are on their own pages and when relevant you will find topical information about the Alpha Course and our annual Rose & Sweet Pea Show and Garden Fete on their own pages, too.
If there are other things you would like to see on the site, please let the Vicar know - and if you see out-of-date things, please let him know, too, because it is all too easy not to notice when things need updating!
CHRISTIAN PRAYER
All Glory
WHEN Moses came down from Mount Sinai after receiving the Ten Commandments from God, his face shone with the glory of the Lord. To the Israelites 'the glory of the Lord looked like a devouring fire on the mountaintop' (Exodus 12.17). These theophanies, or shewings of God in the Old Testament, indicate the basic experience out of which regular worship was constructed for the Jews. The first four Commandments speak directly of God: the second six speak of human relationships as they should arise out of belief in God and our recognition of his glory.
When Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount and outlined the new law of love, he was not denigrating the decalogue. 'Do not suppose that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets: I did not come to abolish but to fulfil' (Matthew 5.17).
When St Paul speaks of the authority of the law and the prophets he inevitably recalls the glory on Mount Sinai and in the face of Moses. He writes: 'How much more does the glory of God show forth in Jesus Christ'. We shall be, 'transformed into his likeness with ever increasing glory, through the power of the Lord who is the Spirit' (2 Corinthians 3.8). Out of this mystical experience, shared by St Paul with the Corinthian church, we learn the wonderful truth that we can all see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Perhaps English spirituality, particularly since the Reformation, has taken on a rather different note and laid almost too much emphasis on sin and confession. The 1662 Prayer Book has a good deal of reference to the 'devices and desires of our own hearts' whereas The Alternative Service Book 1980, stresses the positive aspects of Praise and Glory in daily worship. The declaration of the Glory of God will always be vital in worship.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen.' This Psalm ending in the new Prayer Book strikes the note I believe to be very important today.
The Old Testament is full of Songs in Glory: the Song of Moses in Exodus 15; the Song of Hannah in I Samuel 2; the songs of David and Solomon in 2 Samuel 22 and I Kings 8. The whole book of Psalms, which constitute the hymns of Israel, and the purple passages of praise and glory in the writings of the greater and lesser prophets, all testify to the Glory of God. Glory must be our prayer for the present day and age. Let it be 'All Glory'.
N.W.G..
COOKING WITH MARGARET
Apple & Raisin Crisp
- 3 oz butter
- 1½ oz moist brown sugar
- 1½ oz Demerara sugar
- 5 oz rolled oats
- 2 large cooking apples
- 2 oz seedless raisins
Grease a deep 8½" pie plate. Cream butter and sugar together and work in the rolled oats. Peel and core apples, slice into plate and add raisins. Spread mixture over apples. Bake in a moderate oven Gas 4, 350° F, 180° C for 45 minutes until crisp and golden brown.
Serve hot or cold with cream or custard.
Registers for July 2006
HOLY BAPTISM
We welcome to the Lord's family:
- 9th: Charlie Stephen Rigby 55a Linchfield Road
- Erin Mary Fisk 43 Hereward Way
- Benjamin James Britton 43 Hereward Way
MARRIAGE
We congratulate:
- 9th: Michael James Dunk and Karen Lesley Smith
FUNERALS
We commend to God's keeping:
- 7th: Patricia Rose Welsh (66) (ashes interred 25th July)
- 19th: Dennis Wilfred Toynton (81)
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