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Parish Magazine Parishes of Rolvenden and Newenden 2021 MARCH ONLINE Parish Magazine Parishes of Rolvenden and Newenden Associate Team Priest The Revd Chris Hodgkins 01580 389587 [email protected] mob: 07843220684 Please note Chris' day off is Friday Reader Judy Vinson 01580 241504 [email protected] St Mary the Virgin, Rolvenden Churchwardens Elizabeth Marshall 01580 241529 ea.marshall@btinternet .com Hon. Secretary Ann Paddick 01797 252334 Hon. Treasurer William Barham 01580 240852 Sacristan Elizabeth Marshall 01580 241529 Organist Geoffrey Davison 01580 241685 Bellringers’ Assoc. Captain Linda Smith 01580 241783 St Peter, Newenden Churchwardens Frances Jones 01797 252563 [email protected] Hugh Edmonds 01797 252196 [email protected] Hon Secretary Ellen Hannavy-Cousen 07861705638 [email protected] Hon. Treasurer Sue Bourne 07879 403424 Sacristan Rhoda Smith 01580 292041 Magazine Administration Judy Vinson 01580 241504 [email protected] Magazine Subscriptions Sue Bourne 078794 03424 Published by Rolvenden P.C.C. This month's cover: Early morning sunrise - Sally Sawyer Primrose Northrop Primrose Minister’s Letter-Lent Dear All As I sit writing this letter on the second day of Lent I am reminded of all those things I have missed over the last year. The church celebrations, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Trinity and of course Christmas. They still happened but without the pomp and ceremony that we have become used to. Perhaps the pandemic has enabled us to go back to the sacredness of our church festivals and allowed us to engage with them in a more spiritual way. I’ve also missed my family and friends. The gatherings we would normally have during the year just haven’t happened. I only managed to see my Mum for a few hours in October, for which I am extremely grateful. I am not alone, many of us have had to make these sacrifices during the last twelve months and perhaps there is comfort to be found as we all have a shared experience. We can empathise with each other and be sensitive to each other’s needs. In many ways it is like we have had a year of Lent. A year where we have had to give things up. A year where we have gone out into the wilderness and found out what it is that really matters. On the first Sunday of Lent we heard the Gospel account of when Jesus went out into the wilderness. He was alone for forty days and was tempted by Satan. However, Jesus wasn’t really alone, yes he had left his family behind, but his father, God, was with him. We are told in Mark’s account that ‘he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.’ God provided for him during his time in the wilderness. If we look at Matthew’s account we see that it is only after the forty days, when Jesus must have been at his lowest, weak and hungry, that he resisted temptation and then the Angels came and waited on him. We have been extremely lucky that during the past year, through the efforts of many in our community, those who have found themselves alone and very much in a 3 wilderness have been helped. Perhaps this help has come during their wilderness experience or maybe at the end, but what is clear is that God has been at work. We are not alone. It is during Lent that we examine ourselves, our spiritual lives and our relationship with God. We prepare to greet the risen Jesus on Easter Day with shouts of “Alleluia!” We may still be in Lent but each time God works through you to help someone in need the shout goes out “Alleluia!” May God bless you and keep you. Chris Reverend Chris Hodgkins E From the Registers E Funeral February 5th Christina Hicks at St Peter’s followed by cremation at Tunbridge Wells February 16th Joan Blakey at Charing Magazine Matters Last month we did not have the space to introduce you to two new regular contributors. So here is the belated introduction. • If you come to Campfire you will know Cris Descher who is hosting Shine for Kids, a children’s page, which will come sometimes with a competition and sometimes just a fun activity. It will have a parallel presence on St Mary’s and St Peter’s Facebook pages. • Hazel Beaney is following in the steps of Peter Austen, keeping us alive to the weather and the natural world. The territory will be broadly the same, both Peter and Hazel are keen gardeners and observers of nature, but Hazel will bring a different angle. The blue pages are heavy with information relating to Lockdown and Covid. The pages are now stapled into the printed magazine. They won’t get lost but, if you usually pin them up somewhere, you are going to have to attack the magazine with a small knife to open the staples. Finally, some of you who have a printed magazine delivered may be wondering what happened to the annual collection of Magazine Subscriptions last month. From 2021 we are moving the subscription renewal date to June which means your 2020 sub is covering an additional four months: a small gesture to make up for the issues that you did not receive last year when we had lost access to the photocopier. If you are a new subscriber we will add the appropriate number of issues to the June request. 4 Some more on Prayer Last month Sylvia reflected that ‘prayer is natural and everyday and we may spend more time at it than we think’. But praying, like so many other activities, comes more easily if we have some guidance when we start. There is some rather good guidance readily available for you, when you want it in your own home. Enter Reverends Lindsay and Jeanette beavering away in St Mildred’s with their 10 x 10 format, 10 videos of around 10 minutes covering a topic, and they have completed one called Prayer – Where to start and how to keep going. The title comes from a short book by Archbishop Stephen Cottrell. The titles of the 10 videos start with: What is prayer and how do I start? Where and when should I pray? How should I pray? How do I build prayer into everyday life? And so on right down to number 10, Now I’ve started praying, how do I keep going? All 10 videos are stored together on You Tube and this is the link. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKllhw- qY5nMBfZVqkNOlhDV50unRIBSm For those of you who are unable to access online or prefer a book here are the details:Prayer – where to start and how to keep going by Stephen Cottrell. Published by Church House Publishing ISBN 9781781402146 Paperback £7.99 Whether you go online or get the book, may you find this resource takes you further and deeper into prayer. Judy V 5 Church Service Calendar for March As was the case last month both St Mary’s and St Peter’s are shut for public worship but still very much open for private prayer. It is not clear when worship might resume but when it does the times will most likely be to the usual pattern, the main services being 9:15am at St Peter’s Church 11:00am at St Mary’s Church 3:00pm on the first Sunday in St Mary’s churchyard for Campfire. This month we continue with the season of Lent followed by Palm Sunday, this year the last Sunday of March. Palm Sunday marks the start of Holy Week which will take us to Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. The altar frontal is already purple for Lent, will turn to red for Palm Sunday and will completely disappear for Good Friday. Our Sacristans are continuing to signal to us all this moving of the Church’s calendar. When we resume worship it will be in the weekly newsletter and on the churches’ Facebook pages, there will be posters and you may even here a loud shout from the vicarage. For now, here are the dates and their place in the liturgical calendar. Sunday 7th March, Third Sunday of Lent Sunday 14th March, Fourth Sunday of Lent – Mothering Sunday Sunday 21st March, Fifth Sunday of Lent Sunday 28th March, Palm Sunday Thursday 1st April, Maundy Thursday Services online In the meantime, the benefice, the group of 9 churches of which we are a part, is being served by online worship from St Mildred’s Tenterden. You will find the services on St Mildred’s website: www.cofetenterden.co.uk/ go to Worship, events and daily bulletin E On Sunday mornings there is a live streaming: Eucharist at 9:30am a second service at 11:00am. The type of service varies from Sunday to Sunday Both are preceded by music – a good time to prepare for worship. The live streamed services are available afterwards to suit your day. E Weekdays there are daily pre-recorded services: Morning Prayer from 7:00am Night Prayer from 7:00pm You will find a live streamed Night Prayer on St Mary’s and St Peter’s Facebook pages 7:00pm Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and available afterwards Going into Church Both St Peter’s and St Mary’s remain open for private prayer. Everyone is most welcome to come in and find that special peace that seems to be in the very stones where they have absorbed generations of prayer, prayers of hope and despair, joy and thanksgiving. Come in to pray, to light a candle, or just sit in that safe quiet space for a while.
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