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Parish Priest Fr Paul Armstead 02392 732786 When I came to St James’ I worried about plenty of things. One of them, oddly, 287 Milton Road PO4 8PG was preaching. I’d written for a living, but always as a ghost writer. Which [email protected] meant that my voice was a ghost’s voice too. I always hid behind what other Assistant Curate Fr Hugo Deadman 02392 651456 people wanted to say and their personalities. 102B Copnor Road PO3 5AL [email protected] So I worried about standing up in the pulpit, because I didn’t know what I

Hon Assistant Priest Fr Paul Ginever 02392 174692 wanted to say or how to say it. I worried about finding my own voice. But I needn’t have worried because I always find a subject and I always get Choir Church Mr Alastair Ross 07889 299078 something to explore. Because you give it to me in what you think and say and [email protected] how you live your lives. So I preach not just Christ crucified and risen, but what Reader Mr Jeff Harvey 02392 828111 that looks and sounds like in Milton. It’s theology, not from the seminar room, Reader Ms Marilyn Palmer but carved out in people’s lives.

Churchwarden Miss Stella Wansborough 02392 642386 And from our conversations on the phone in the past few weeks I reckon I’ve Churchwarden Mr Mark Pearce 02392 426992 got enough material to last a lifetime. Director of Music Mr Paul Freathy 07707 564633 Hall bookings and magazine One comment last week really stuck in my mind. Joan Gray said to me that “it’s advertising Mr Roger Bannister 02392 041100 amazing how people can pull together even when they’re far apart”. Because Magazine Treasurer Mr Peter Garner 02392 812448 that’s what the people of St James’ have been doing with knobs on.

Church services You would have to have a heart of stone not to feel the joy of people seeing one another for the first time in weeks on our Zoom coffee morning last week or the phone calls you make to one another or the relief of being able to join All public services in the church Father Paul at mass from the vicarage. Everyone is sitting around that table, are suspended until further notice. concentrating – albeit virtually. Bridget Wade said she found hearing the snap of

the bread as it was broken very powerful. There is, oddly, an intimacy with one another and with what God is trying to say to us at such moments.

Baptism (Christening), Banns and Wedding arrangements should be made by contacting Fr Paul using the above contact details. We can’t tell how long it will be until we can worship together in the building in the way we are used to. We might think of St James’ as the building – and one Please visit our Website www.stjamesmilton.org.uk Facebook www.facebook.com/StJamesMiltonUk we rightly love. But we, the people, are also St James’ – what St Peter calls the living stones. So perhaps we have learnt something too. About how, as Joan said, how amazing it is how we can pull together even when we’re far apart.

2 1. Say Hello to your Friends Fr Hugo So far a lot of the Hive’s work has been coordinated through its central team. Now it’s going to rely far more on its neighbourhood teams. Since lockdown people at St James’ have been very resourceful in keeping touch, whether that’s on the phone or by email or one of the seemingly Over the last week of May we’ll be distributing a leaflet to each home in endless ways communicating by electronic means! If you’ve not already done Milton setting out what we can do, with the help of our volunteers. That’s so, do try to get to our Zoom coffee mornings – it’s far easier than you think anything from collecting food or liaising with a food bank, to walking the to join in! Just ask one of the clergy for help. dog, to gardening, to collecting prescriptions.

As many of you have noticed, I’ve started posting little films, usually lasting If you’d like to volunteer, then talk to Father Hugo. If you – or anyone you around 30 seconds, of members of the congregation on the St james’ Facebook know – could do with a hand, talk to him as well and we will see what we page. It’s a great way to say hello to friends you might not have seen for a bit can do. – and a great way for them to see you and hear what you’ve been up to **************

I thought I’d do this because it’s good to stay in touch – but also for a To be a Pilgrim theological reasons. We miss being together and we miss being together in our church too, which has such long and rich associations for so many people You might remember in the dim and distant past before Lockdown, that locally. But the church is also its people – what St Peter calls its living stones. we were planning to hold weekly discussion groups at St James’, giving I wanted those little films to show that, although these are strange times people the opportunity to discuss issues to do with faith, and things that indeed, the living stones of the church are still at work and still smiling. interested them – and maybe too things that troubled them.

Let me know if you’d like me to pop round and film you – or if there’s anyone Well, don’t despair, if you were one of the people interested in this idea, you’d particularly like to hear from! because we’re going to revive it by other means.

****************** A few years ago some of us studied some of the sessions on the Pilgrim course, produced by the Church of . This is an excellent resource, Busy Bees at the Hive Fr Hugo providing little films and reflections, passages for Bible study and questions to discuss – and covers lots of different topics. Some of you will know about the work of the Hive, a community organisation, which has been supporting lots of people around the city during I’d like to us the Pilgrim course on the eucharist to offer people the Lockdown. opportunity to think about what it means to them and what other people think it’s all about. That’s something that’s very much on my mind at the The Hive is also setting up local networks, as it would like to help our moment, as I hope I will – at some point soon – be ordained priest and neighbourhoods help themselves and one another. In fact, I think what they’re then have, amongst other things, the privilege of celebrating the eucharist. doing is reviving a very traditional attitude of looking out for and after those So I’d like to walk with you as we discuss it. around you. The Pilgrim course publish little books to accompany the course, which I

can order, and I think will be around £6 per head. We can then meet up I think it’s a wholly Christian attitude as well – and have become the Milton Co online – possibly on Zoom, probably one evening – to reflect and discuss, -ordinator. So too do many of you as around 20 of you have volunteered to pr. If you’d like to join the fun, then let me know. I think we’ll probably help out. start around the middle of June.

4. 3. All in the month of JUNE 75 years ago, on 22nd June 1945 that the Battle of Okinawa ended after 82 days. This battle saw the highest number of casualties in the Pacific Theatre It was: of the war, with more than 12,000 Allies, 110,000 Japanese forces and 140,000 civilians killed. th 250 years ago, on 11 June 1770 that English explorer Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia when his ship ran aground on 70 years ago, on 3rd June 1950 that the first successful ascent of Annapurna it and was severely damaged. in the Himalayas, was accomplished by a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog. This was the first successful ascent of a mountain over 8,000 th 200 years ago, on 19 June 1820 that Joseph Banks, British naturalist, died. metres. Annapurna is the 10th highest mountain in the world. He was President of the Royal Society for 41 years, developed the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, into one of the world’s leading botanical gardens. 65 years ago, on 11th June 1955 that the Le Mans disaster took place when a car span off the track during the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France. The th 150 years ago, on 9 June 1870 that Charles Dickens, British novelist, died. driver, Pierre Levegh, and 83 spectators were killed and over 100 injured. It His books include The Pickwick Papers, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations was the greatest loss of life in the history of motorsport. and David Copperfield. 60 years ago, on 16th June 1960 that Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense film Psycho th 100 years ago, on 11 June 1920 that the Colony of Kenya was established. was released. It was previously known as British East Africa. It gained its independence as Kenya in 1963. Also 60 years ago, on 28th June 1960 that the Six Bells Colliery disaster took place in Monmouthshire. 45 coal miners were killed by a gas explosion. 80 years ago, June 1940, was a dramatic month in World War II. Main points include: 50 years ago, on 29th June 1970 that following the Vietnam War, US troops were withdrawn from Cambodia. rd 3 The German Luftwaffe bombed Paris. th 4 The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk was 40 years ago, on 12th June 1980 that Billy Butlin, British holiday camp completed. entrepreneur, died. Winston Churchill gave his ‘We shall fight them on the beaches’ speech. 30 years ago, on 1 June 1990 that US President George Bush and Soviet th 5 The Battle of France began. leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement to end the production of th 10 Italy declared war on France and Britain. chemical weapons and to destroy existing stocks. Canada declared war on Italy. The North African Campaign (Desert War) began. Also 30 years ago, on 22nd June 1990 that Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, was th 11 The siege of Malta began. dismantled. It remained an official crossing point between East and West th 14 German forces entered Paris. Germany until re-unification in October. The guard house is now on display th 17 French government minister Charles de Gaulle (later in a museum. President of France) relocated to Britain. th 18 Winston Churchill gave his ‘Finest Hour’ speech. 20 years ago, on 10th June 2000 that the Millennium Bridge in London nd 22 France surrendered to Germany. opened. It closed again two days later because it swayed uncomfortably th 30 Germany invaded the Channel Islands. when people walked in step. It reopened in Feb 2002 after changes were made.

5. 6. My ‘Lockdown’ Thoughts’ Jeff Harvey My TWG has also made me very aware of other folks’ problems during these difficult times of Covid 19, especially of course for those who are Several years ago when I was trying to juggle Reader Ministry with my full sick, and for the families of those who have died. Its also given me the time occupation, (I was at the helm at St Margaret’s alongside two opportunity to keep in touch remotely, with all those parishioners and wonderful Churchwardens, due to the long term sick of the Parish Priest, residents that I am unable to visit personally. and a subsequent interregnum), I was finding little or no time for private prayer or meditation. Above all, however it has, without a shadow of doubt, brought home to me, that God loves us all and is there for us, at any time of the day or My Spiritual Advisor advised, that in my very heavy diary entries and night, and for whatever reason. workload, I needed to put the letters TWG in the odd space or two that remained. “TWG,” I asked , “What is that”. “Time with God,” replied my I have a wise Spiritual Director, May God continue to bless him, and may Spiritual Advisor. we, by God’s grace, be also blessed, as we find our own TWG.

Over the past eighteen years or so, I have adapted that principle, quite ****************** successfully, even though the pages that the letters appeared on, have been sometimes sparse. A bright new tomorrow Peter Garner

At the commencement of ‘Lockdown,’ It is fair to say that I was in a state of shock, as suddenly ALL my public ministry had been taken away from There’s a bright new tomorrow me, which meant no sermons, no leading of services, no Hospital Waiting for everyone to enjoy Chaplaincy, no Home Communions, no visiting of parishioners in their The journey is in finding out Rest Homes ,and arguably the worst thing of all, no physical presence in When we open that new door. Shearwater Care Home where I have had a very fulfilling Ministry, representing all of us at St James for the past six years. The Bible gives us guidance And along with prayer and deeds What on earth was I going to do? I promptly entered in every page of my When all these are put together diary, TWG, and it has paid off! They arrive at life’s creed.

Time with God every day, whether it be through online streaming of So lets get started on our journey services, (which are in abundance, and particularly good), to reading, private With those who already follow prayer and meditation has enabled me to look at life in a quite different And together join with them way. To make our BRIGHT NEW TOMORROW

This has included shopping for us both, on Marjorie’s behalf,( as she is on twelve weeks isolation), regular trips to the chemist for her medication, numerous other errands, dog walking , and generally being ‘on hand’, helping with the housework, and keeping my office reasonably tidy, (including a mass sort out of books, possibly for use by Ordinands and Readers in Training on the Portsmouth Pathway).

7. 8. Smile-lines Holy Day for June One-line quiz questions 4th June St Petroc, the founder of Padstow

If you would like to be in Cornwall this summer in search of peace and 1. What time of day was Adam created? quiet, Petroc is the saint for you. Especially if you used to find Padstow a Just a little before Eve. bit too crowded for your liking! He would have sympathised. 2. Who was the fastest runner in the race? This 6th century abbot is Cornwall’s most famous saint. Petroc set sail Adam. He was first in the human race. from South Wales, landed at Haylemouth, and founded a monastery at Lanwethinoc – now called Padstow, after him (Petroc’s Stow). 3. Why are atoms Catholic? Because they all have mass. Padstow must have been popular even in those days, because about 30 years later Petroc, in search of some peace and quiet, moved on to build 4 Why didn’t they play cards on the Ark? another monastery at Little Petherick (Nanceventon). Here he must have th Because Noah was always standing on the deck decided to try some 6 century equivalent of ‘Fresh Expressions’, because he engaged with his local community by building a mill and a chapel. 5. Why didn’t Noah ever go fishing?

In time, Petroc began feeling crowded again. So he tramped off to the He only had two worms. remote wilds of Bodmin Moor, where he lived as a hermit – until some 12 monks turned up to join him. Firmly, Petroc kept them all housed in a 6. Did Eve ever have a date with Adam? monastery on a hilltop, while he enjoyed his private space in a cell by the No — just an apple. river. 7. Why did the unemployed man get excited while reading his Bible? But even here Petroc was not alone. One day a terrified stag came rushing He thought he saw a job. through the woods, pursued by the hunt. Petroc flung open the door of his cell, and the panting animal took refuge. When the huntsmen arrived 8. Does God love everyone? on the scene, they did not dare to argue with the famous holy man, and Yes, but He prefers ‘fruits of the spirit’ to ‘religious nuts’. went their way. The stag’s gratitude made him tame, and Petroc would come to be portrayed with a stag as his special emblem. 9. Why couldn’t Jonah trust the ocean? He just knew there was something fishy about it. Petroc was buried in the monastery in Padstow but in c.1000 his shrine and relics, including his staff and bell, were translated to Bodmin. Here 10. What kind of man was Boaz before he married Ruth? they have stayed ever since, except for a short, unplanned trip to Brittany Absolutely ruthless. in 1177, when they were stolen and carted off by a naughty Canon of the Church. Henry II intervened, and everything but a rib of Petroc was 11. The good Lord didn’t create anything without a purpose. eventually returned. Mosquitoes come close, though.

12. What’s so funny about forbidden fruits? They create many jams.

9. 10. The following are actual call centre conversations…. Thoughts from Rita, a member of the 8am community

Wrong number I have been thinking about what to write about life in a pandemic so here goes: Customer: “I’ve been ringing you on 0700 2300 for two days. Why didn’t you answer?” I feel nature is at its best at the moment from the birds singing to the Travel agent: “Where did you get that number from, sir?” bluebells in the woods that I see on my daily exercise, people seem nicer and I Customer: “It’s there on the door to your Travel Centre.” love seeing a family out on their bikes together or walking and people have Operator: “Sir, they are our opening hours.” time for each other I feel in one way we are being taught a valid lesson on what matters in life not what we think matters. Other side? I miss things like going to visit my parents who are in their 80's but every night Caller (enquiring about legal requirements while travelling in France ): “If I at 7.30pm we have a watts app video dance with them or a quiz been a register my car in France, do I have to change the steering wheel to the struggle getting mum to understand a smart phone but she can answer the call other side of the car?” now.

Sure Listening to my parents about a kind neighbour giving them some rabbits or pheasants to make a stew with which is what it was like when we were Then there was the caller who asked for a knitwear company in Woven. children. Operator: “Woven? Are you sure?” Caller: “Yes, of course. That's what it says on the label; Woven in Everything that I'm used to doing has stopped work, visiting family, football, Scotland.” going to church going for a Costa but one day it will be back and I really hope people stay a little bit as they are at moment and carry on doing things as a And finally family and not putting money and work before other things.

Makeup ************************ My life in lockdown Jill Chalmers Every morning, a little girl would go in the bathroom to watch her mother as she I am Receptionist at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth and I have been blessed to was putting on her makeup to go to work. But during coronavirus, the be able to work all through the lockdown albeit it only one or two days a mother stopped bothering with makeup, much to her daughter’s confusion. week with a decrease in numbers at work from 200 to 17 or less. But this “Mummy,” she cried early on in the lockdown: “Come back! You forgot to enables me to leave my home for a working day and leaves me time to clean kiss the toilet paper goodbye!" my house, garden and maybe do a little more cooking and not dash here there and everywhere and actually sit down to a meal and be mum to be three cats Not a bride and I have had a couple of rooms repainted in my house.

“Something’s wrong with me,” sighed a young lady after a wedding. “I’ve I found the lockdown a weird experience. I, personally, never thought it would been a bridesmaid twice, I even caught the bouquet, too; but I’m still come to this, queueing in shops, social distancing and frustrated angry people single.” with just cause, some of which I have had to argue with, I feel to test me in my “Next time,” advised her grandmother, “don’t reach for the flowers; reach life as a Christian. for the best man.” 11. 12. In my lifetime I have seen two Churches close to. The first being my Parish And can it be Marilyn Palmer Church of St Margaret's and now temporarily St James' Church who all made my very welcome when I had the upheaval of coming to another Church. It Charles Wesley A&M no 588 was strange it first, like the new girl at school, but I knew more people at St James' than I did at St Margaret's through the connection of my late mum. And can it be For example, Margaret Baber, who was school secretary where my late mum That we are here and you are there taught. in dark and difficult days? That we are here but beyond us now As with all there was new birth at St Margaret's which had to be and I fought a promise beckons us on? to keep the new Parish Centre open and the Church to stay as at Eastney / where I live as there are very little shops at all these days in my And can it be area. I feel from the coronavirus at St James' Church there will be new birth A promise that contains such hope as there will be with the world as a whole. shines for others far away? For those who suffer, those alone, ******************** and those whose journey is unknown?

Inspired by Winston Churchill 's attitude to success which involved keeping And can it be positive whenever he failed. That righteousness is ours through The Co Vid 19 pandemic...... the love of Christ alone?

WAKE UP 2020 That the dungeon of our isolation will flame with light in time?

2020 is born, full of hope before crash landing by the hidden enemy A wake-up global call, teaching us new ideals, whilst locked away in our And can it be beautiful Spring, That his light will flame for those Wondering whose turn is next to face the visored angels of the NHS..... calling on his name? Yet And the way, the truth and the light of life Every cloud has a silver lining will set us free again? and Love and Kindness will always overcome and shame the greedy and selfish minority... And can it be Take time to That we can own Listen to the lapping waves in their constant mesmerising dance the righteousness of the divine? Look upwards to the cleaner message of the empty skies And then we can claim a crown Breathe in the mountain air of our very own? Listen to the Song of Nature creating new life Smile as you recall a silly moment in your life Yes it can. Give thanks for friendships past and future We are never alone. The moon reassures and goes to bed as the sun reappears And our life carries on another day wiser. Madeleine Salvetti

13. 14. Calendar for thought and prayer From the Registers

Monday 1 S Justin Our schools Funerals Tuesday 2 Feria Departed of June Wednesday 3 Martyrs of Uganda Persecuted Christians Stephen Woodage Kingston Cemetery Thursday 4 Feria Home schooling David Hopgood Kingston Cemetery Friday 5 S Boniface Exeter diocese Jim Essery Portchester Crematorium Josephine Merriman Kingston Cemetery Saturday 6 Feria Local media Brian Dell Portchester Crematorium Sunday 7 Trinity Sunday Our parish David Blake Portchester Crematorium Monday 8 Feria The unemployed Barbara Tindal Portchester Crematorium Tuesday 9 Feria Those on furlough Wednesday 10 Feria Local community centres Thursday 11 Corpus Christi Restoration of holy communion Friday 12 S Barnabas Missionaries Saturday 13 Feria The City Council On Tuesday 2nd June we remember before God all the departed of the month and those whose funerals have taken place during the last month. Sunday 14 Trinity 1 Our Parish Monday 15 Feria Local businesses Tuesday 16 S Richard Chichester Diocese MEN‘S FELLOWSHIP and LADIES GUILD Wednesday 17 Feria Aid agencies Thursday 18 Feria Diocese of Ho Will not be meeting during this period of social isolation.

Friday 19 Feria Portsmouth Deanery 200 CLUB Saturday 20 Feria The Roberts Centre Sunday 21 Trinity 2 Our parish Results of Draw No 565 Monday 22 S Alban City and Diocese Drawn on 16 May 2020 on a video link with Father Paul Tuesday 23 S Etheldreda Sisters of Bethany Wednesday 24 Birth of S John Baptist Children’s services 1st £15 91 Lisa Britton Thursday 25 Feria The Queen Friday 26 Feria Funeral directors 2nd £11 165 Christine Justice

Saturday 27 Feria Teachers 3rd £9 181 Sue Bannister Sunday 28 Trinity 3 Our Parish Monday 29 Ss Peter and Paul Wymering parish 4th £7 198 Barbara Griffin Tuesday 30 Feria Archdeacon elect Jenny 5th £5 24 Miss E Randall

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