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` Aldborough, Boroughbridge,Dunsforths, Minskip, Roecliffe April 2020 www.boroughbridgechurches.uk WHO’S WHO MAGAZINE EDITORS VICAR David Bellwood 324276 Rev Karen Gardiner Paul Farrelly 504913 The Vicarage, Church Lane, Email: Boroughbridge YO51 9BA link @boroughbridgechurches.uk 01423 326518 karen.gardiner @leeds.anglican.org Please note that copy for inclusion in any one month should be sent to the Editors by the 12th of the previous CHURCHWARDENS month. ALDBOROUGH Mrs Liz Vose 203503 Mr J Lawson-Tancred 326162 Local Village Contacts: ALDBOROUGH: Mrs S Hynes BOROUGHBRIDGE Tel: 324071 Mr A Weeds 391535 Mrs K Ambrose 322070 [email protected] BOROUGHBRIDGE: Mr P Farrelly DUNSFORTH Tel: 504913 Mrs F. Merchie 322526 [email protected] Mrs P. Denny 322901 DUNSFORTH: Mrs P Denny MINSKIP Tel: 322901 Mr R Beaumont 322365 [email protected] ROECLIFFE MINSKIP: Mrs D Wilson Mr J. Bolland 325091 Tel: 322712 Mr S. Jarvis 322026 [email protected] READER ROECLIFFE: Mr J. Bolland John Francis Moss 07515 825198 Tel: 325091 Johnfrancismoss @icloud.com [email protected] HOSPITAL VISITS Karen would be pleased to know of anyone in hospital or at home who would like a visit. Please let her know as she has no other way of finding out. Thank you. HOME COMMUNION Our team of Eucharistic Ministers can provide communion at home for those who are housebound, or regularly unable to come to church. If you, or anyone you know, would like such a service please let one of the churchwardens know. PARISH WEB ADDRESS www.boroughbridgechurches.uk From the Vicarage........ Dear friends, continuity of care. Please don’t forget, too, those who are at the I am writing this editorial on 17th most vulnerable in our society – March following the Prime those who have no homes to self- Minister’s recent advice on self- isolate in, and those who need to isolating for the over 70s, and the access our local Foodbanks. There Church of England’s decision to will be tremendous pressure on refrain from all public worship for those seeking to help the the time being. We have been vulnerable, so please do be asked to make enormous generous where you can. adaptations to our lives, and at the moment it feels a little like A lot is being asked of us, but we being in shock – things have find out who we truly are in times changed for us all so suddenly and of adversity. I am confident that so drastically. By the time you this town and its villages have the read this, however, we will most ability to bring positivity, probably have settled into these determination, courage and new routines and found new ways compassion into the most difficult to pray and to support one of circumstances. another. Human beings are remarkably resilient and adaptive. Thank you for all you have done and all that you will do as we This is a wonderful town, with weather this together. If you are exceptional social networks. inside at the moment and Boroughbridge Town Council and frustrated because you feel Boroughbridge Community Care, unable to help, do remember that as well as the Churches, will be prayer may turn out to be the doing all that they can to support most important thing of all. those in need (you can read more about this in the coming pages). Look out for one another, have Of course, many of the supporters courage, and press on. and volunteers fall into high risk groups, and will be asked to self- Every blessing, isolate, so there will be a need for more volunteers to ensure Karen A Message from John Dear Friends, telephone or e-mail than by talking face- to-face; by waving at a distance than You may be surprised to read that I do through a handshake or a hug; or plan Family Services beforehand! About by leaving something – shopping, for four weeks ago, when I started to think example – at the doorstep, rather than about last Sunday’s readings – Jesus going in for a chat. Hard though it may meeting the Samaritan woman at the well seem, this may be the right way of – the coronavirus threat wasn’t anywhere obeying Jesus’s commandments to love as immediate as it is now. I thought I God and love one another. would be clever by illustrating just how close the Samaritan woman came to While I am not in any way advocating Jesus by thinking about how enforced isolation as a virtue – other than close people get when speaking with in emergencies such as this, the church each other – and at the same time has for centuries promoted the idea of alerting people to the fact that we might being alone with God as an opportunity have to start physically distancing for individuals to enjoy spiritual reflection ourselves in order to slow the spread of and refreshment, and for deepening their coronavirus. Well that plan didn’t work! – relationship with him – solitude as not only did the spread of the virus opposed to loneliness. If we are to stay catch up and overtake the Church of at home rather than come to church each England lectionary, the most recent Sunday, might we not spend some of that government advice means I have to stay time in reading our Bibles; away from people as much as possible in creative reflection (picture yourself as for seven days – albeit the bit of a runny the Samaritan woman: just how close are nose and sore throat I have probably isn’t you willing to sit to Jesus; what is he the real thing!. saying to you?); and in prayer? And instead of coffee afterwards, what All the advice about spreading viruses about making yourself a drink then shows just how easy it is to pass on picking up the phone? Let’s find unusual something from one person to another – ways of being church in unusual times. by direct contact, by being in proximity, or by leaving something behind. It may be With love, that over the next few months we have to share God’s love with each other by John 5 CORONAVIRUS GOLDEN RULES At the time of writing, the solace when someone is worried. A coronavirus is all over the news, smile can bring cheer, even on the with a great deal of uncertainty phone. If you visit, follow all the about how things might develop official precautions or don’t go. over the next few weeks. This is Golden Rule Three. Don’t give into written, then, with the panic and start hoarding food. There acknowledgement that when you is plenty to go around, so practise read this, we may be in a very the Christian discipline of sharing. different place. I would like to think, Ask your neighbours what they need though, that these “Golden Rules”, and do you best to help them get it. written by the Bishop of St Albans, If you are self-isolating you will of will remain a helpful way of course need some supplies. thinking about the situation in how we relate to one another: Golden Rule Four. Live today to the full. None of us ever know what the Golden Rule One. Each one of us can future holds. In the Sermon on the think about how we can protect and Mount (Matthew 6. 25 – 34), Jesus support our neighbours. So much of challenged his followers to live each the public rhetoric is sowing fear day fully and not be afraid. Every about the danger of other people. time we are tempted to give in to So, taking all the official fear we need to make a precautions, offer help and conscious choice to respond in reassurance to others – and don’t trust and openness. demonise anyone or any group. And, along with just over half the Golden Rule Two: Think about who adults in the UK, don’t forget to may be suffering more than me. For pray. Here’s a suggestion from the those of us who are healthy there is Revd Louise Collins, a Team Vicar in much less to worry about but the Borehamwood, Herts: elderly, the housebound and those with chronic health conditions may Dear God our Shield and our be very anxious. How about each Defender, guide and protect my church undertaking an audit of all neighbour in this time of health the vulnerable people they know emergency; deliver them from all and sharing out the responsibility to harm and may your love and care phone them each day. There’s ever grow in this place. Through nothing like a friendly voice to offer Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen. 6 DUNSFORTH NEWS Dunsforth Draw "The pulpit is a handsome piece of workmanship. It is of Caen stone, and This month the Draw will take place later rests upon a base of alabaster with than usual, so the results will be marble columns. It is hexagonal in shape, announced next month. and upon the six faces are the figures of St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, Forthcoming Events St. Peter and St. Paul. The desk of the pulpit is supported by an angel with We are hoping to hold a talk on the clasped hands and expanded wings. The architecture of St Mary's in the autumn. font, which is placed at the south corner Here is an extract from Wikipedia to whet of the nave, is also of Caen stone, and your appetites .... has a very neat appearance. It rests upon an alabaster base, with serpentine marble columns, and is in perfect keeping with the pulpit.