Benefice Newsletter August & September 2018
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BENEFICE NEWSLETTER AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 2018 Your Gateway to the churches of Patrick Brompton, Crakehall, Hornby, Spennithorne, Finghall, & Hauxwell RECTOR Revd Chris Lawton, The Vicarage, Patrick Brompton DL8 1JN 01677 450920 [email protected] Loving Living Learning 1 MINISTERS WITH PERMISSION TO OFFICIATE Revd. Laura Wilford 5 Cookson Way, Brough St Giles 01748 830017 [email protected] Revd. Lisle Ryder 01677 450180 Fr. Philip Carrington 01677 425 077 READERS Joyce Blundell 01748 812668 Tony Gibson 01748 830017 CHURCHWARDENS Crakehall St Gregory’s Myra Sheild 01677 427970 Gill Bartram 01677 424517 Finghall St Andrew’s Colin Thorpe 01969 622471 Hauxwell St Oswald’s Rosi Keatinge 01969 623416 Dyno Keatinge 01969 623416 Hornby St Mary’s Vacant Patrick Brompton St Patrick’s Alistair Clark 01677 450414 Spennithorne St Michael’s Margaret Crocker 01969 625479 Norma Croft 01969 624077 Please do not hesitate to contact any of the above for further information CORNERSTONE PASTORAL CARE Cornerstone is here to provide a 'listening ministry' within a safe, accepting and confidential environment. Our aim is to give emotional and spiritual support to church members and the wider community. We also offer help and information concerning practical matters such as shopping, transport, odd jobs, etc. The pastoral team includes those who have had training in 'active listening' and who collectively have experience of – Hospital and Prison Chaplaincy, the Samaritans, Counselling and Nursing. All volunteers are insured and checked by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS – formerly CRB). Please contact: 01677 937124 HOME COMMUNION If you are unable to attend church because of illness or any other difficult circumstances and you would like communion at home, please contact the clergy or one of the readers. 2 Saint Oswald of Northumbria Extracted from Wikipedia by Dyno Keatinge As we celebrate St Oswald’s day on the 5th August this year here in Wensleydale, it is appropriate that we know more about him as he was a very special local Saint and several Dales churches are named in his honour amongst others throughout England. In fact, he is venerated widely in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox communions and has a pan-European reputation including, for example, the current St Oswald’s church in Bad Kleinkircheim in northern Austria. After the usual continuous internecine struggles of the dark ages, he became King of Northumbria from 634 until 641. His elevation took place after the very small army of Northumbria managed to defeat Cadwallon the King of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia at the battle of Heavenfield near Hexham which followed Oswald’s elder brother’s attempt to negotiate peace and subsequent murder by Cadwallon. This victory was miraculously inspired as St Oswald had a vision of Saint Columba the night before the battle in which he was told: “Be strong and act manfully. I will be with thee. This coming night go out from your camp into battle for the Lord has granted me that at this time your foes shall be put to flight and Cadwallon your enemy shall be delivered into your hands and you shall return victorious after battle and reign happily”. Oswald described his vision to his Council that morning and all agreed that they then would be baptised and accept Christianity after the battle. Thus, it turned out and Cadwallon’s army was routed and he himself was killed. After the victory Oswald was nominally the most powerful king in our island and he was described as being “ordained by God as Emperor of all Britain”. He helped to promulgate the Christian faith by the request to the Irish to send a cleric to help in converting his people and subsequently Bishop Aidan of Lindisfarne was successful in this task. Oswald himself is portrayed by the Venerable Bede as being very generous to the poor and to strangers. However, his luck ran out when in 641 he was defeated by the pagan Mercians under Penda at the battle of Maserfield near Oswestry (sic. Oswald’s tree!) and his body was dismembered on the battlefield. Quite quickly after this event he became associated with local healing miracles involving relics of his body parts such as his arm when dropped by a bird endowed a local ash tree with ageless vigour. Likewise, Oswald’s head was interred in Durham cathedral and one uncorrupted arm associated with his acts of generosity to the poor is supposed to have ended up in Peterborough abbey (Oswald’s chapel exists there today) having been stolen by Abbey monks from its original home in Bamburgh. Other bones ended up in St Oswald’s Priory in Gloucester at the behest of King Alfred the Great’s daughter Aethelflaed who along with her nephew King Aethelstan became strong promulgators of the Oswaldian cult. Let us then remember a good and holy man who does not deserve to be left in relative obscurity locally. We should be proud of our forebears! 3 WW1 CENTENARY AFTERNOON Tea and cakes Harmby Village Hall th Saturday 18 August 2pm-4pm Displays of photographs. Homemade cakes. Raffle. Songs from the wars 'All profits from afternoon tea and cakes sales and all profits from raffle and collection go to Help For Heroes. Help for Heroes is a registered charity in England and Wales (1120920 and Scotland (SC044984)' FINGHALL BARREL PUSH Many thanks to everyone who supported the Finghall Barrel Push & Village Fete on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. Excellent weather attracted a large crowd to watch the Barrel Push Competition and enjoy many other attractions on offer. Following the event, the Organising Committee have been able to donate just under £4,000 to three charities. The chief beneficiaries being Bright Red (blood cancer) and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, with a smaller donation awarded to the Swaledale Mountain Rescue. Wensleydale Filling Station Venue Change From February 2018 onwards, we are changed the Venue for Wensleydale Filling Station. We meet at Newton Le Willows Village Hall DL8 1SP 19:00 to 21:00 For more information please contact: Pauline Hirst 01969 667841 [email protected] Our next meetings are : September 14th Peter Whittington Wigan & All Saints Centre th October 12 Brian Wilson St Barnabas Teaching Centre Sheffield DEADLINE FOR ITEMS FOR THE NEXT NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 15 for October /November ISSUE [email protected] 4 PARISH LUNCHES - ALL ARE WELCOME! Parish Lunch at the OLD HORN INN, SPENNITHORNE Next lunches are Wednesday 15 August and Wednesday 19 September at 12.30. £10 per head for a 2-course meal. Please ring Jeff or Diane at the Old Horn Inn on 01969 622370. Parish Lunch at the QUEEN’S HEAD FINGHALL is on Thursday 20 September 12.30. £10 per head. Please confirm your place by ringing Myra Shield on 01677 427970 by Monday 17 September Patrick Brompton Community Events Patrick Brompton Village Show and BBQ Saturday 18 August, in the Old Schoolroom and on Jubilee Green. Show schedules can be obtained from 01677 450937 / 01677 451837 and from PB or N-le-W Bus Shelters and viewed from the PB website . Deadline for entries:- Thursday 16th August 5pm Entry fee for each exhibit: 50p Saturday 18 10am - 12.00 Staging of entries 2.30pm Open for viewing Teas and Coffee available. BBQ JUBILEE GREEN All Welcome 4.00pm Bring your own meat, cutlery, plates, drinks. Some tables and chairs provided, bring your own if you can. A range of delicious salads, bread and deserts provided. Hot drinks £1.00 BBQs fired up ready for you to use from 4.30pm St. Patrick's/Community Events Coffee Mornings continue at The Old Schoolroom, PB 10.00 - 12.00, Saturday 4 August. Saturday 1st September. Come if you can! 5 TOTALS COLLECTED Hackforth £87.27 Hornby £80.00 Patrick Brompton £118.18 Crakehall £614.22 The total for Bedale and district was £2,498 Very many thanks to all who took part in Christian Aid week, especially Crakehall Guides who delivered envelopes round Crakehall and Patrick Brompton ,making it easier for the door to door collectors who do such a sterling job .Of course a big thank you to all those who donated to such a life giving cause. Myra Crakehall Guides and Brownies We meet in the Village Hall on Tuesdays during school term-time Brownies open to girls age 7-10. Tuesday from 17:30 to 19:00 Guides open to girls age 10-14. Tuesday from 19:00 to 20.30 All are welcome. If you are interested, please call 0800 169 5901 or go to www.girlguiding.co.uk/joinus for further information. 6 SPENNITHORNE & HARMBY MOTHERS’ UNION Visitors and potential new members are always welcome. Please contact Chris on 01969 622471 for further details. Meetings are usually held on the fourth Thursday of the month at Harmby Village hall. In August Members are asked to support the Afternoon tea for Help for Heroes on Saturday 18 August 18 In Harmby Village Hall from 2.00pm. Thursday 27 September Revd. Chris Lawton will be talking about ''Beautiful people – Broken Lives”. Harmby Village Hall from 7pm till 9pm. NEWTON LE WILLOWS COFFEE MORNINGS VILLAGE HALL 10 - 12 Every third Saturday of the month 18 August and 15 September . Come along and enjoy a natter, good coffee or tea and pleasant company. See you there! Members of St. Michael’s PCC would like to thank all who supported, in any way, their Annual Summer Fair on the 20 July. Over £1,000 was raised. 7 HACKFORTH TABLE TENNIS RESTARTS ON MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER from 6-30pm onwards at Hackforth Village Hall. Come and enjoy, all abilities welcome. Contact Betty Burke on 01677 422276.