The Parish Magazine of St Stephen’s Church Guernsey
Vittorio Carpaccio, The Vision of St Augustine, 1502-1508 Scuola degli Schiavoni, Venice
July/August 2018
From the Editor We thought it appropriate to delve into St Augustine, since his feast day on 28th August gives us a good excuse to investigate this great Doctor of the Church. We all of course know who he is, but we thought that it would be interesting to flesh out what he has done for Christian thought and the bases of our faith today. Herein are several ruminations on this brilliant Christian philosopher and man of God. In addition, we have a new contributor, Fr John Luff, who has been researching the curates of St Stephen’s Church (perhaps a curious life’s work, you say, but we jumped at the chance to learn more of our history). This magazine will be a double issue (July and August), so you will find extra pages to compensate for the extended length of time. We hope that you will enjoy the magazine, a true communal effort for which we remain ever grateful to our contributors. Claudia Moore
A Thinking Faith
On 28th August, we will celebrate the Feast of St Augustine and therefore mark the anniversary the Bishop of Hippo’s death in 430 C.E.
Augustine was heavily influenced and informed by both the Greek and Latin philosophical traditions. He used the dialectical tools and ideological framework provided by these traditions to understand (and later explain) Christian theology.
Augustine’s faith was essentially a thinking faith, endeavouring to bring together the belief of his heart and the abilities of his mind. This is well illustrated by the fact that his favourite verse from scripture was a (mis)quotation from Isaiah 7. 9, ‘If you do not believe, then you will not understand.’ Faith seeks understanding: faith first, understanding afterwards. This is the leitmotif of his 15-book work, On the Trinity.
Augustine was a prolific writer and preacher. He produced his Confessions (an autobiography), The City of God (a work which endeavours to account for the sack of Rome by the Goths in 410 C.E.) and more than 1,000 sermons, homilies and letters. In these writings, we encounter Augustine’s extraordinary powers of rhetoric and his theological vision. Augustine made a significant contribution to developing a thinking faith, and it is a legacy that is still with us today. Augustine believed that God is beyond the range of the human mind; but he did not let the limitations of the human mind deter him from his pursuit of a greater understanding of God.
In St Augustine, we meet one of the most fascinating figures in the whole history of the Church. Together with Jerome, Ambrose and Gregory the Great, he forms the group known as the Latin Fathers. Despite Augustine’s intellectual distinction, it is not always easy to find him to be coherent as he deals with the deepest mysteries of faith. How can God be both eternal and yet both create and become part of time? How can we be totally dependent on grace, and yet also free? Augustine points us to these mysteries, beyond himself.
As we remember Augustine on his feast day, let us resolve to ‘think about our faith’ in courageous, new ways. Under God, we have the freedom to engage with our Christian beliefs; to ask probing questions; and to make progress even when we do not have all of the answers.
Fr John Moore
Church Diary—July 2018 Sunday 1 The Fifth Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Said Mass (Family Min) Fr Marc 11.00am Sung Mass Fr Marc Monday 2 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group 7.30pm Ladies’ College Leavers’ Service Tuesday 3 Thomas the Apostle 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 4 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 5 11.00am Beechwood Leavers’ Service Friday 6 Thomas More, Scholar, and John Fisher, Bishop of 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel Rochester, Reformation Martyrs, 1535 Saturday 7 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee Morning Sunday 8 The Sixth Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Said Mass (Family Min) Fr John 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John 12.30pm Baptism of Charlotte Le Page Monday 9 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 10 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, Father of 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Western Monasticism, c. 550 Thursday 12 Friday 13 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel Saturday 14 John Keble, Priest, Tractarian, Poet, 1866 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee Morning 4.00pm Taizé Service Sunday 15 The Seventh Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Said Mass (Family Min) Fr John 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John 12.30pm Baptism of Brodi Ian Stephen Smith tbc Parish Picnic Monday 16 Osmond, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 17 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel tbc Guernsey Concert Youth Brass Wednesday 18 Elizabeth Ferard, first Deaconess of the Church of 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel England, Founder of the Community of St Andrew, 1883 Thursday 19 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, and his sister Macrina, Deaconess, Teachers, c. 394 and c. 379 Friday 20 Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, 4th century; Bartolomé de 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 Saturday 21 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee Morning Sunday 22 The Feast of Mary Magdalene and the 9.30am Said Mass (Family Min) Fr John Eighth Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John 12.30pm Baptism of Riley Skipton Monday 23 Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 24 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel tbc Guernsey Concert Youth Brass Wednesday 25 James the Apostle 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 26 Anne and Joachim, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Friday 27 Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel Saturday 28 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee Morning Sunday 29 The Ninth Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Family Service Fr Marc 11.00am Sung Mass Fr Marc Monday 30 William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, Olaudah Equiano 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group and Thomas Clarkson, Anti-Slavery Campaigners, 1833, 1797 and 1846 Tuesday 31 Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel
Church Diary—August 2018
Wednesday 1 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 2 Friday 3 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel Saturday 4 Jean-Baptiste Vianney, Curé d’Ars, Spiritual Guide, 1859 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee Morning Sunday 5 The Tenth Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Said Mass (Family Min) Fr Marc 11.00am Sung Mass Fr Marc
Monday 6 The Transfiguration of Our Lord 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group 7.00pm Mass
Tuesday 7 John Mason Neale, Priest, Hymn Writer, 1866 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 8 Dominic, Priest, Founder, Order of Preachers, 1221 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 9 Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers’ Union, 1921 Friday 10 Laurence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel Saturday 11 Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Poor Clares, 1253 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee Morning Sunday 12 The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Said Mass (Family Min) Fr Marc 11.00am Sung Mass Fr Marc
Monday 13 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor, 1667 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 14 Maximilian Kolbe, Friar, Martyr, 1941 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 15 The Blessed Virgin Mary 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 16 Friday 17 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel Saturday 18 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee 1.00pm Short Lunchtime Concert-Jon Pickard 7.30pm Full Evening Concert-Jon Pickard
Sunday 19 The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Said Mass (Family Min) Fr John 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John 12.30pm Baptism of Imogen Grace Turvey
Monday 20 Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 21 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 22 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 23 Friday 24 Bartholomew the Apostle 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel Saturday 25 10.00-11.30am Drop-In Coffee Morning Sunday 26 The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 9.30am Family Service Fr John 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John
Monday 27 Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 10.00am ‘Little Treasures’ Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 28 Augustine, Bushop of Hippo, 430 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 29 The Beheading of John the Baptist 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 30 John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Friday 31 Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 7.00pm Mass Resurrection Chapel
Looking Further Ahead
Sep 8 Saturday (tbc) Wedding of Laura McBride
Sep 9 Sunday 12.30pm Sunday Club Barbecue and Games
Sep 15 Saturday 2..00pm Wedding of Jessica Santos and Marcus Piercy
7.30pm RAFA Concert
Sep 30 Sunday Harvest Festival
Oct 7 Sunday 12.30pm Dedication Festival Lunch in the Community Centre
Oct 8-12 Guernsey Pilgrimage to The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Oct 13 Saturday 7.00pm Quiz Evening in the Community Centre
Oct 16 Tuesday 11.00am Beechwood Harvest Festival
Nov 9 Friday 10.20am Ladies’ College Remembrance Day Service
Nov 17 Saturday (tbc) Supper and Evening of Jazz with Alison Castle and the Elastic Band in the Community Centre
Taizé comes to Guernsey!
A service of music interspersed with times of silence, prayer, meditation and adoration in the style of the Taizé Community
Saturday 14th July 2018 4.00-5.00pm St Stephen’s Church, St Peter Port
St Augustine of Hippo
We have all heard of St Augustine of Hippo (not the 6th century St Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of the church in England). However, what do we really know of him? We thought that he would be a good subject for this double issue, so that we can discover who he was, why he is so important to the development of Christianity and why he is still so relevant to us today. Here is a brief biographical sketch:
Augustine was born in 354 C.E. in Thagaste, in the Roman province of Numidia, in what is now Algeria. His mother Monica was a devout Christian who was an (perhaps the) important aspect of Augustine’s life. His father was not a Christian. They were Berbers (an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, still present today), but their household was a Romanised one, where Latin was spoken. The family was upper class and had most probably been Roman citizens for generations.
Augustine, considered gifted from a young age, was sent at the age of 11 to study at a school some 20 miles south of Thagaste. When he was 17, he went to study in Carthage. He became a brilliant scholar and, when Carthage seemed too small, he moved to Rome to found a school there. Shortly after his arrival however, he won the job of rhetoric professor in Milan, one of the most enviable academic appointments in the Latin world. Through his studies, Augustine had become very knowledgeable of the philosophies behind many of the faiths of his time. Initially, Augustine was not attracted to Christianity (in spite of his mother’s urgings and constant prayer). Then he met Bishop Ambrose of Milan, a brilliant orator who led Augustine to a deep faith in Christianity. He was baptised in Milan by Bishop Ambrose at Easter Vigil in 387 at the age of 31; his son was baptised with him. He wrote of his conversion in Confessions, which has become a classic of Christian theology and a key text in the history of autobiography. It speaks of Augustine’s life, and also of time, causality, free will, the nature of man, grace and many other defining concepts of Christianity.
You may have heard that he had a mistress with whom he lived for over 15 years and with whom he had a son. He dearly loved this woman, whose name has not been passed down to us. He ended the relationship, sending
her back to Algeria, so he could marry someone of his ‘rank’, as befitted his status as a prominent figure. Ultimately, he did not marry, choosing the celibate life (a choice, as he was under no obligation to do so).
Augustine returned to North Africa in 388 with his son, his mother having died shortly before their departure. He was ordained a priest in Hippo and several years later became Bishop of Hippo. He became a famous preacher and was recognised as a man of formidable intellect, zealously converting and educating his flock, while leading a monastic life in the episcopal residence. He died in 430, on 28th August, now commemorated as his feast day. His mother Monica is commemorated on 27th August. Augustine spent the last days before his death closed in his room, posting on his wall where he could see them the texts of the seven penitential Psalms to wrestle one last time with his sins before meeting his maker.
More than 5 million words of his writing survive, still relevant today, and have greatly influenced the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and so many others. He is one of the original four doctors of the church (the title given to those saints who had made significant contributions to theology or doctrine), along with St Gregory the Great, St Ambrose and St Jerome.
Quotes from St Augustine’s writings:
‘Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence.’
‘You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.’
‘In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.’
‘The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.’
St Augustine and the British Heresy
When Dr Samuel Johnson was a child in petticoats, his mother one morning put the Book of Common Prayer into his hands, pointed to the collect for the day, and said ‘Sam, you must get this by heart’. She went upstairs, but by the time she had reached the second floor she heard him following her, ‘What’s the matter?’ said she? ‘I can say it’, he replied, and repeated it directly.
When I was a child I would not have wanted to compete with the petticoats and I could not have recited a collect two minutes after reading it but, in common with some of my generation, I was required to learn many by heart, which, years later, was a consoling and mutual ability when visiting the elderly sick. ‘Lighten our darkness…’, the collect at Evening Prayer, was a favourite one in the dimmed lighting of the night in a hospital ward which alone shone from the nurses’ table.
Some seventy-two of these collects were translated by the English reformers from the Latin Prayer Books (known as ‘sacramentaries’) of the 5th and 6th century popes. A word which occurs regularly is ‘Prevent’ as in ‘Lord, we pray that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works….’ (17th Sunday after Trinity), or that for Easter Day ‘...that by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect.’
‘To prevent’ is one of those words which has completely changed its meaning. It has slipped by gradual degrees from the sense of arriving first with intention of helping, to that of arriving first with the intention of hindering. In order to explain this complete reversal of meaning our modern Common Worship reformers, helping or hindering, changed for us the wording of the collect to ‘Go before us, O Lord....’
When the early popes used in their prayers such expressions as: ‘by thy special grace preventing us’, they were calling to mind the teaching of St Augustine, the third and last of the great teachers who developed Western theology, not in Rome, but what is now known as Algeria. This
was the birth place of the Latin Bible, not in Italy, but among the North African Roman colonies. As it was in the British colonies, which were more ‘British than the British’, so it was in the Roman colonies which were ‘more Roman than the Romans’, while in Rome itself all things Greek were generally preferred.
A difficulty that Augustine had arose out of the teaching of a British monk named Pelagius, who was very concerned about the moral degeneration of the period and the deterioration creeping into the Church. It all seemed far removed from the days of the persecutions when Christians seemed able to live much nearer to their ideal. Pelagius felt they could be good if they would only try, so called upon them to pull themselves together and be the kind of people the Gospel expected them to be. To Augustine this was altogether too shallow. He thought that the human race was prone to wickedness and could only be delivered by the special providence of God, that is to say by the Grace of Prevenience by which God takes the initiative, ‘goes before’ in order stir our conscious effort and that this Grace has to be one of continuous help.
It has often been said, and not without considerable truth, that Pelagianism has always remained, as it began, a distinctively British heresy: the idea that we can rely upon our own self-confidence to do the good and decent thing. It sometimes creeps into the admonitions of our leaders in their urging us ‘to build up the Kingdom of God’. A view in very sharp contrast to the views of Augustine, who thought we have no power to help ourselves except through the Grace of Prevenience and the Grace of Continuance. We can recognise this double aspect of grace taught by Augustine and handed down in one of our favourite collects to be found among the Table Prayers in the Book of Common Prayer, and most anciently recited by the priest disrobing after the celebration of Mass:
‘Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works, begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life.’
Fr Leslie Craske
The Curates of St Stephen’s
Having spent most of my ministry as a curate and in chaplaincy in my home island, until taking charge of two churches in Birmingham, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to find out about others who had served in a similar way in Guernsey. This has led to me compiling lists of all known clergy who have served as curates in the island parishes. I have also collected information on all the incumbents, and other clergy who have lived in the island in retirement. This, I have to say, is an on-going task, as I keep on discovering people I have missed. I may have omitted some of St Stephen’s curates, as some only stayed for short periods, but I have tried, from family history sources, parish magazines, and newspapers to compile as accurate an account as possible of all those known to me at this time.
These men seem to have come to Guernsey for various reasons. Some had definite family connexions with the island. Others certainly came for health reasons. A ‘change of air’ was often recommended by physicians for those who were unwell in the days when medical knowledge was not so far advanced as it is today. Thus we find many with chronic lung conditions repairing to Switzerland and other places where the weather was finer, and the atmosphere clearer. In the nineteenth century it appears that Guernsey was also recommended as a place where recovery might be made, or, when health improved, as a place where work might be taken on before returning to England. Others may have come for unspecified reasons, at which perhaps we can only guess. I will leave you, the readers to judge. Some of these men were extremely well connected. Others were of much humbler stock and many, it must be said, went on to do much appreciated, and indeed, brave work for the extension of the Kingdom of God here on earth. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.
The Revd Henry Nassau Rynd
So far as I can discover, Henry Nassau Rynd was the first priest to take services at St Stephen’s after its consecration in 1866. The church was at that time a chapel of ease of the Town Church, and curates-in-charge were appointed by the Rector, the Very Revd William Guille. Some of his curates also conducted services, but Mr Guille himself had become incapacitated by a ‘serious illness’ – possibly a stroke, which rendered him incapable of officiating in church.
Henry Rynd was born at Dublin on 4th November 1820. He was one of five sons of Major Thomas Rynd of the 100th Regiment of Foot (the Prince Regent’s County of Dublin Regiment) and Jane Ann McKay. The 100th was disbanded in 1818, and Major Rynd went on half pay. The family lived for a time in France, but then
came to Guernsey, and lived at Belle Vue, St Peter Port, previously the home of the wealthy Dobrée family. The Rynds were a wealthy family of Irish landed gentry, the most famous of whom was probably Francis Rynd, the physician who developed the hollow needle used in hypodermic syringes. Major and Mrs Rynd both died in Guernsey, and are buried in a vault in the Cimetière des Frères.
Henry and three of his brothers attended Elizabeth College. After further tuition, he was admitted to Trinity College, Dublin to study for Holy Orders, and graduated BA, also passing the Divinity Testimonium, a requirement for ordinands, in 1844 and MA in 1849. He was ordained deacon in 1844 in the diocese of Winchester to a title at St Michel du Valle, Guernsey, and priested in 1845. In 1846 he was appointed Perpetual Curate of Stockbridge, where he remained until 1860. In June 1851 he married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Colonel Thomas Kennedy, and sister of the Revd John Doyle Kennedy, a Guernseyman who later became Rector of St Sampson’s. Mr Kennedy officiated at the ceremony.
From 1860-65 he was ‘without the cure of souls’ living at The Wilderness, Box, Wiltshire. The reason for this is not known, but ill health may have been the cause, or perhaps as he was a wealthy man with a wife and nine children, he wanted to devote time to them and their education. Perhaps it was Henry’s brother-in-law, by then Rector of St Sampson’s, who in 1866 alerted him to the need for a priest at St Stephen’s. He seems to have been there only for a short time, because later that year the Revd Otho William Steele was appointed, and remained for six years. At the same time Henry returned to Wiltshire, and took up duty as curate of St Saviour’s, Bath. In 1867 he was appointed Vicar of Shinfield, near Reading, where according to reports he was highly and deservedly esteemed.
In his latter years he had serious problems with his eyesight, necessitating painful operations. He seemed to recover, went about his duties and was able at least to take part in the services in his church. However in his last weeks he suffered from increasing weakness, and died on 4th June 1890, in the 70th year of his age. The Reading Mercury of Saturday 14th June gives a moving account of the funeral, typical of the times.
His family consisted in all of ten children, eight daughters and two sons. Apart from one son who went to Texas and became a rancher, and a daughter who married a doctor, none of them married, or had any profession. Following his death his widow and eight children moved to Goodrest, and large mansion in Holly Walk, Royal Leamington Spa. An insight into their wealth can be gained from the fact that when Mrs. Rynd died in 1910 she left approximately £25,000 in England and Ireland, the equivalent of £2.75 million today. Fr John Luff
Friendship Lunches
There will be no lunches in July or August when many people are away. The lunches will resume in September. We extend our gratitude to Jean and Rosalyne Le Huray for their hard work, their excellent planning and production of wonderful meals, and for their offering of the opportunity for people to socialise in a relaxed atmosphere.
Everyone truly enjoys these lunches. The date of the next lunch will be announced at the end of summer.
St Augustine’s Confessions
In 397, Augustine had reached a watershed in his life. Since 391, he had been forced to adjust himself to a new experience, as a priest and bishop. This change affected him deeply. The writing of the Confessions was an act of therapy. It is a poignant book. It is an exceptionally difficult book. Augustine had been forced to come to terms with himself.
He wrote that a man cannot hope to find God unless he first finds himself: for this God is ‘deeper than my inmost being’, experience of Him becomes ‘better’ the more ‘inward’. Above all, it is man’s tragedy that he should be driven to flee ‘outwards’, to lose touch with himself, to ‘wander far’ from his ‘own heart’: ‘You were right before me; but I had moved away from myself. I could not find myself: how much less, then, could I find You.’
For Augustine, progress in wisdom, measured at this time in his life by the yardstick of his understanding of the Holy Scriptures, could only depend upon progress in self-awareness. It is this therapy of self- examination (expressed in Confessions) which has, perhaps, brought Augustine closest to some of the best traditions of our own age.
Excerpts from Peter Brown’s ‘Augustine of Hippo’
Confessions is available on Amazon. Some 300 pages of brilliance, passion, intricacy and sophistication-an extraordinary narrative of conversion. Henry Chadwick’s translation brings it all to life.
The Jesse Window Restoration Appeal
Between October and April the Caritas Charity run a café at the Saturday Farmers’ Market in the hall at St Martin’s. On four occasions this year St Stephen’s has been asked to cover for Caritas from 9.00am to 12.00 pm on the Saturday, a task that a small group of us willingly took on. We sold tea, coffee, cakes and savoury items. Combining the four occasions we raised over £500 towards The William Morris Jesse Window restoration appeal.
During the summer months the Farmers’ Market is held outside at Sausmarez Manor which has its own café, so we were surprised to be asked by Peter de Sausmarez to provide refreshments on 5th May as his café would be shut for that day and two or three coaches were expected. By the end of the morning we had made £444 which, added to the other money raised, took us over the £1000 mark, which for 15 hours work is excellent and a large boost to the Jesse Window appeal. We thank Carolyn, who runs the café, for her assistance with allowing us to use the café equipment and providing a gazebo for us to work under.
Having worked the indoor market this year, hopefully we will be asked to do it again on future occasions. If we do, we ask for our parishioners support by either providing cakes etc. for us to sell or making a donation towards the cost of the ingredients.
We offer grateful thanks to those who have been supporting us this year, by donating cakes and savouries and working at the market, selling and washing up.
We appreciate that not everyone can make cakes but you can still help in other ways. We need at least six large cakes and savouries to have enough to cover sales for three hours. When we know that we are to run the café we will advertise the event on the Sunday bulletin the week before, plus a list of people to contact if you can assist in any way.
It is an excellent way of raising money and fun to be involved in, whether by providing food or physical assistance. Well done and many thanks to all those involved. David Amory
‘It was Do-able’
Sometime last year it was decided that we should put on an event to help publicise to the wider community our beautiful William Morris stained glass windows, and the importance of raising money to repair and restore them. The idea of making a floral carpet down the main aisle, (as has been done twice before at church), was suggested and put to Nicky Jee. She straight away said ‘Yes that’s do-able!’ and from then on the planning and preparations began. Nicky drew the symbols for the roundels to represent eight of the biblical characters portrayed in the Jesse window at the west end of the Church and these were then given to various groups attached to the church to complete. They were delighted to be involved. The Ladies’ College and the College of Further Education were approached to see if they would like to take part and they agreed that the students would study the windows and the work of William Morris and produce some art and craft work for the Festival. On the day before the Festival, a willing team from the congregation sat for the morning cutting ivy leaves for the carpet, while at the same time the students were busy assembling their artistic creations. By the next day the Tree of Jesse Festival was ready and open for visitors. The carpet looked amazing and all the art work was very impressive. The Festival lasted 10 days and many people visited and were very interested in the displays. They were also delighted to see our beautiful windows, especially as many of them were keen to go up in the organ loft and get really close to the detail in William Morris’s designs. So many visitors had no idea that there were these great art treasures in St Stephen’s Church and it is important that we continue to promote these windows so that more and more people can enjoy them. We had two main reasons for putting on the Festival: one was to involve the community (especially the young people) in appreciating the windows; and secondly to increase the public’s awareness (both locals and visitors) of these treasures and ask them to help us raise the money to save the windows for future generations. We are so grateful to everyone who was involved in the event, including the students, stewards, leaf cutters and carpet layers and a special thank you to Nicky for saying ‘it was do-able’..…..and it was !!! Ann Goss We received so many positive comments from the visitors and seeing the church through their eyes, we realise how blessed we truly are. They have been amazed by just how many William Morris windows we actually have. Many have commented on the ‘Stations of the Cross’ and how beautiful and unique they are. They loved the way ‘we present our treasures in an uncluttered manner, which makes the church so beautiful, open and inviting.’ Another person said ’We have never been in a church as beautiful and peaceful as this.’ Marg Kaines
Do you know…? St Stephen’s Church is blessed to have a very diverse and lively membership. From time to time, the Parish Magazine will feature an interview with a worshipper from one of our congregations, so that we can all get to know each other just a bit better!
This week, we interviewed: Graham Moullin We know that you’re a Guernsey man. Could you tell us about your childhood? I was born in Guernsey and was an only child. When I was three years old, my mother and I were evacuated during the war, while my father stayed here. It was a long journey to Bolton, in Lancashire; I remember taking the boat and a train, and then stopping twice to spend the night in school shelters before reaching our destination. During our time away, we had no news of my father until the Red Cross facilitated the exchange of 25-word messages which would take three months to arrive. Before those messages, we did not know whether he was dead or alive. When we returned to Guernsey in 1946, I was able to pick out my father from the crowd waiting for us at the White Rock because I recognised him from the wedding photo my mother had kept with us. He was wearing the same suit that he had worn on his wedding day. In the beginning, my father could not understand what I was saying because of my broad Lancashire accent! From that time, I remember that my family had saved all the chocolate that had arrived in the Red Cross food parcels that were finally allowed by the Germans, and had kept all of it for me. Only later did I realise what a sacrifice that represented for them. What would you like to say about your walk with God? My mother was a Methodist. The family that welcomed us in Bolton were Mr and Mrs Hardman. They were Anglicans. They recommended a Methodist church in Bolton, which we attended in the mornings; and then we went to an Anglican service with the Hardmans in the evening. To this day, I remember Mrs Hardman kneeling in front of the fire to say her prayers before she went to bed. The Hardmans became like family to us. Mr Hardtman died during the war, but I used to go back and visit them once a year. When we returned to Guernsey after the war, our family went to St Andrew’s Methodist Church. And how about your studies? I left the island to work and study accountancy in London. Once I arrived in London, I became involved in a Methodist church and ran their Youth Club. From time to time, we would have Methodist missionaries who would come and
speak at church; and frequently they would tell us that accountants were needed in those mission outposts. Once I had finished my studies and qualified as a certified accountant, I contacted the Methodist Mission Society. The need for accountants was great, but funding was lacking. Finally I applied to the Anglican Educational Diocesan Office, which was looking for someone to serve in West Nigeria and supervise the accounts of a thousand primary schools and fifty grammar schools. I left for Nigeria with my first wife and our first child. We stayed there for two and one- half years. You lived in the UK on your return – tell us a little about that, and about your decision to come back to Guernsey. I returned to Sussex with my wife and our (by then three) children, and held a number of positions in central London. In 1985, we moved back to Guernsey. Our children were grown, and chose to remain in the UK; but the move allowed me to be closer to my widowed mother. We bought an old farmhouse in St Andrew’s and renovated it. Sadly, my wife died of cancer not long after our move. And then there is this delightful love story between you and a certain Val Pilkington… Val and I met through St James, as we were both on the Council. Val was a presenter with BBC Radio Guernsey at the time, and I was working at Jackson’s as their group accountant. Val and I became very good friends. One thing led to another (as things sometimes very fortuitously do) and we eventually married. We had our wedding blessed in the Lady Chapel in August 2008. Val and I first came to St Stephen’s when it organised a Flower Festival (not the recent one for the Tree of Jesse, but the previous one). We were keen to see the emblem of St Stephen’s that was part of the floral carpet. We began to attend the 9.30am service and have continued to do so ever since. I was confirmed in the Anglican Church at St Stephen’s in March 2009. Later in November 2009 I was invited to become a server for the 9.30am service. When I came back from Nigeria, my life (both professionally and at home) was very busy; and since that time, prayer has always been important to me. Throughout the years, I have treasured a collection of prayers that you can read every day. It is called A Time to Pray. Even though you are retired, it does seem that you are busier than ever, and you serve as a Trustee of the St Stephen’s Community Centre. In 2012, I was asked by Fr Philip Carrington to take a look at the books of the Community Centre. I reviewed the accounts, made suggestions, and as these things sometimes happen, I agreed to be the Treasurer. I have served in this way for six years now. It is not at all a burden. In fact, I enjoy it; and it keeps me in the ‘numbers game’.
‘Anglo-Catholic’….matters St Stephen’s Church has a long and rich Anglo-Catholic tradition. Each month, the Parish Magazine will feature an article about one aspect of this tradition, which contributes so much to our corporate worship and the life of our church community.
The Ambo: Launch Platform for the Word
It is said that ‘when the Sacred Scriptures are read in Church, God Himself speaks to His people, and Christ, present in His word, proclaims the Gospel’ (General Instruction of the Roman Missal).
Throughout the history of church architecture, various furnishings were designated to facilitate the reading of the Scriptures and the exposition of the Word of God.
The ‘ambo’ (a word of Greek origin, supposed to signify a mountain or elevation) is an elevated desk or pulpit from which the Gospel and the Epistle were chanted or read in the early churches and basilicas. From the ambo, all kinds of communications were made to the congregation; and sometimes the bishop preached from it (as in the case of St John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople who died in 407 C.E.).
Originally, there was only one ambo in a church, placed in the nave, and provided with two flights of steps (one from the east, the side towards the altar; and the other from the west). From the eastern steps the sub-deacon, with his face to the altar, read the Epistles; and from the western steps the deacon read the Gospels, facing the people.
The inconvenience of having one ambo soon became manifest, and as a result in many churches, two ‘ambones’ (the plural form of ambo) were erected. When there were two, they were usually placed one on each side of the choir, which was separated from the nave by a low wall.
Ambones are believed to have taken their origin from the raised platform from which the Jewish rabbis read the Scriptures to the people, and they were first introduced into churches during the fourth century. They were in universal use by the ninth century, and reached their full development and artistic beauty in the twelfth century. Ambones were usually built of white marble and enriched
with carvings, inlays of coloured marbles and glass mosaics. They then gradually fell out of use, and by the fourteenth century were largely superseded by pulpits.
Pulpits, properly speaking, were primarily used for preaching, and developed in the late Middle Ages as a place separate from the proclamation of Scripture. Interestingly enough, the concept of the ambo as an important place from which the Scriptures were both read, proclaimed and explained was re-established in the twentieth century.
The word ‘ambo’ is then a richly-charged term. It signifies the rediscovery and return of the liturgically-celebrated proclamation of Christ’s presence in the Scriptures to the people of God. It is no mere functional bookstand, but is also a signifier of the importance of Scripture itself. Because Christ is present in the Scriptures proclaimed, and He himself proclaims the Gospel through his earthly minister, the reading of Scriptures is indeed a liturgical act. In liturgical celebrations, the realities of salvation history are not offered as ‘reminders’ only, but are presented anew as mysterious realities, making them effective in the life of their hearers.
Unlike an altar, which has numerous theological meanings and many explanatory references in the Church’s liturgical books, practical directions for the design of an ambo are given in very general ways and in relatively few places. One reads: ‘There must be a place in the church that is somewhat elevated, fixed, and of suitable design and nobility’ (The Introduction to the Lectionary for Mass, 32). An elevated ambo corresponds with both the practical considerations of being seen and heard; and an ambo is fixed to the floor to indicate the permanence of Christ amidst His people.
More than a lectern and more than a pulpit, the ambo gives a glorified visual amplification of the minister of the Word who sacramentalises Christ Himself speaking to His people. Christ speaks the Word to our ears, through the sacramental mediation of His minister . Fr John Moore
The Influence of St Augustine
Apart from Jesus Christ and St Paul, St Augustine is arguably the most influential figure in the history of Christianity. As both the Bishop of Hippo (located in Northern Africa) and a notorious philosopher, Augustine shaped the doctrines of the Catholic Church and created the basis for orthodox belief up to, through and beyond the Protestant Reformation. Four major themes of Augustine’s theological and philosophical thought are particularly meaningful to contemporary Christianity.
Original sin The notion of original sin refers to the ‘fall of man’ (Adam’s act of disobedience) articulated in Genesis 1, through which Adam and his progeny inherited an unavoidably corrupt and fallen human nature. Augustine is responsible for fashioning this doctrine, though a bleak and under-explored version of it existed prior to his own evaluation. The force of Augustine’s position echoed loudly throughout the Church and officially became doctrine in the Council of Carthage (418 C.E.).
Grace The notion of grace is not particular to Augustine. It is a major theme throughout the Pauline epistles and was heavily discussed by the Greek fathers. The word ‘grace’ has a variety of meanings; however, Augustine understood it as an unmerited gift of God’s love and favour. In many ways, grace serves as a remedy to our fallen nature. Without it, humankind cannot act morally, nor can it find salvation. For Augustine, original sin is the source of the brokenness and grace is the means of restoration.
Pagan virtue Augustine re-shaped the way the Western world thought about the ethical life. He believed that the virtuous life was exclusively Christian. To be a good or virtuous person did not merely mean acting the right way, but acting the right way for the right reasons. Therefore for Augustine, the Christian faith effectively is the point of departure for a happy life. This view radically changed the trajectory of ethical thought in the Western world until the dawn of the Enlightenment, when both God’s goodness and existence were questioned.
Christian communion During his life, Augustine had to take doctrinal positions against groups or factions (such as the Pelagians and the Donatists) which threatened to divide the Christian Church. He nevertheless maintained that unity within the Body of Christ should be preserved. According to Augustine, Christians are in catholic (i.e. universal) communion with one another and are bound by the bond of mutual charity or love. In this way, love and unity are considered to be virtually inseparable. Fr John Moore
Great (and Messy) Wedding Fun
On Sunday 10th June, St Stephen's organised a 'Messy Church' session at the St Stephen's Community Centre, from 2.30-4.00pm. The theme of the session was 'The Wedding at Cana'.
Activities included: - making a stained glass window or church (linking in with the Tree of Jesse stained glass window) - bottle sand art - making and decorating a hat - making a 3D heart - decorating gingerbread brides and grooms - decorating a cake which could be eaten during the play.
The story of the Wedding at Cana was then acted out by members of the Sunday Club.
In spite of the fact that the event occurred at the end of half-term, a good number of children attended, and a wonderful time was had by all. Many thanks to Andrea Bateman and her team.
Watch this space for the announcement of our next event, a family barbeque in September!
PILGRIMAGE TO THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM (near Norfolk, UK)
8th – 12th OCTOBER 2018
For further information, please contact Fr John Moore [email protected] Tel: (01481) 720268
Travels in Iraq
In 1947 I was stationed in Baghdad as secretary to the General commanding the British Military Mission to the Iraq army. I worked in a private office next to the General with a middle-aged Quartermaster who was in charge. The General was a very kind man and gave us a staff car to share on non-working day religious holidays, of which there were many. We could use it as we wished. The driver of the staff car was an Iraqi soldier who was very keen and knowledgeable about Iraq history and anxious to share it. We let him organise our trips.
On one occasion we set off early, out over the Tigris bridge into a country of small farms, with some arable in the winter rains but otherwise arid country with a few hardy bushes. These were kept alive by summer storms and supported sheep and goats. We motored on and on as our driver picked out points of interest. Eventually we came to a valley into which we descended. The countryside was a little more lush. We began to pass a series of fortified towers built of mud bricks, some of which had stairways round them to reach the top. The fortifications are called ziggurats. After a short time we came to a much larger ziggurat built on an artificial hill and here we stopped.
Our driver explained to us that this was the remains of the Tower of Babel, sacred to both the Christian and Muslim religions. The building had angered God who had blasted it and the surrounding countryside as reported in Genesis. Indeed there was plenty of evidence of destruction. Even the Tower was badly damaged and the hillside was littered with blocks covered in cuneiform writing. The early history of our world was here awaiting historians.
What remains today I have no idea; but I hope it has not been lost forever. There was an aura at Babel and perhaps God is still looking after it.
John Bamforth
The Guild of Intercession The Departed
July
Emily Sophia Tupper, 5/7/1889; Ruth Anderson, 21/7/1920; Jane Hayes, 12/7/1936; Edward George Piprell, 19/7/1943; Samuel Walter Mills, 18/7/1949; George Stave Robilliard, 10/7/1950; Geoffrey Brooke, 26/7/1950; James Alexander Long, 2/7/1951; Emma Mary Sealey, 30/7/1952; Ivy Mary Bishop, 13/7/1954; Christine Cook, 15/7/1954; Kenneth McLeod, 31/7/1954; Joyce Stobie, 31/7/1954; Edward Alexander Howlett, 22/7/1955; Richard Morgan Barton Ince Cromie, 23/7/1957; William Thomas Henry Salisbury, 23/7/1957; Cecil Charles Bynam, 25/7/1957; Douglas Murray McLeod, 26/7/1957; Wilfred Peter Renouf, 2/7/1958; Arthur Gordon Newman, 8/7/1958; Ellen Gertrude Le Gallez, 7/7/1960; Ivor George Sanders (Priest), 15/7/1960; Audrey Dorothea Bellairs, 4/7/1962; Ellen Miles, 27/7/1962; Florence May Paint, 28/7/1962; Hedley Nicolle, 11/7/1966; Gertrude Louisa Smith, 11/7/1971; Gerald Drummond, 2/7/1973; Grace Faircloth, 19/7/1973; William Henry Arnold, 21/7/1973; Ethel Glynes, 4/7/1974; Nancy Georgina Shayer, 7/7/1975; Lilian Garrow Green, 8/7/1975; Alice Tregoning Matthews, 10/7/1977; Herbert William Carlton Shaw, 13/7/1977; Florence Eliza Huddle, 5/7/1979; Alfred Galliott, 16/7/1984; Cecil Pattimore, 10/7/1985; Gertrude Rowe, 23/7/1985; Ethel May Hamilton, 18/7/1986; John Norman Messenger, 20/7/1987; Patrick Williams, 26/7/1987; Roy Frederick Thoume, 2/7/1989; Ernest Joseph Fallaize, 24/7/1989; Mary Elizabeth Lorna King, 23/7/1992; Ruth Mackesy, 2/7/1993; John Alec Le Moigne, 19/7/1993; Delmond Roy Williams, 3/7/1994; Alan Henry Marquis, 5/7/1997; John Bygott-Webb, 25/7/1997; Carol Ann Walters, 12/7/2003; Lesna Harris Millard, 27/7/2003; Phyllis Elizabeth Netherton Agnelli, 5/7/2004; Maud Eunice Ogier, 7/7/2004; Michael Philip Gribbens, 17/7/2004; John Andrew Relf, 15/7/2005; Hilda Parnaby, 12/7/2006; Doris Lillian Fallaize, 19/7/2006; William Allen Dodd, 27/7/2006; David Arthur Le Poidevin, 1/7/2007; Ruby Amelia Bishop, 18/7/2007; Robert Charles Crisell, 26/7/2007; Brian Dyson, 29/7/2007; Isobel Clara Wright, 3/7/2008; Leonard Arthur Le Tocq, 31/7/2009; Robert Keith Dawber, 19/7/2010; Arthur William Helman, 11/7/2011; Muriel Elsie Troth, 9/7/2012; Jean Sermon, 13/7/2012; Tom Ramsden, 27/7/2012; Chase-Dean Honey, 29/7/2012; Michael St John Paint 5/7/2014.
August
Frank Dalla Johns, 22/8/1917; Arthur Thomas, 8/8/1926; Wilfred Henry Horne, 18/8/1937; Jane Tourtel, 2/8/1938; John Wakeford, 28/8/1938; Reta Ivy Piesing, 4/8/1949; John Thomas Hamon, 9/8/1950; Mabel Augusta Pickford, 1/8/1951; Cades Alfred Middleton Smith, 2/8/1951; Frances Emily King, 19/8/1952; Ada Bailey, 6/8/1953; Joseph Thomas Williams, 5/8/1954; Mary St Andrew Coldwell, 23/8/1954; Louise Elizabeth Henchman, 15/8/1956; Beatrice Mary Marquand, 30/8/1956; Charles Henry Toms, 23/8/1957; Frederick Locke, 31/8/1957; Percy William Bird, 2/8/1958; John Thomas Barber, 14/8/1958; Frederick William Bourgaize, 26/8/1958; George Udle 27/8/1958; Elsie May O'Toole, 4/8/1959; John Frank Bertram, 7/8/1959; Gwendoline Edith Sidgwick, 26/8/1959; Eleanor Christine Mitchell, 19/8/1960; Cyril Claridge Chambers, 29/8/1960; Margaret Frances Palmer, 11/8/1961; Leona Hart, 30/8/1961; Walter Henry Greening, 22/8/1962; Keith Martin, 15/8/1965; Edward Louis Frossard (Priest), 13/8/1968; Harriett Winifred Quehen, 14/8/1971; Clara Alice Horrell, 27/8/1977; Clifford Frank Pinney, 16/8/1978; Patrick William Gargan, 15/8/1982; Albert Frank Fallaize, 29/8/1986; Albert John Cochrane, 22/8/1987; William Davison, 18/8/1988; John (Jack) Carrington 31/8/1988; Phyllis Galliers- Pratt, 31/8/1989; Mae England, 1/8/1990; Doris Amy Hunt 11/8/1993; Mildred Edith Fallaize, 30/8/1995; Jennifer Winifred Moore, 18/8/1998; Margaret Win- ifred Cooper, 3/8/2000; Ann Elizabeth Franklin 21/8/2005; Louise Alice (Phoebe) Le Vallée, 11/8/2006; Martin Le Page, 28/8/2008; Noorali Dewji Dhan- ji, 20/8/2009; Ellen (Nell) Rosa Jane Hamon, 28/8/2010; Royston Charles Ogier, 20/8/2011; Peter Martin Cohu, 27/8/2012; Ruth Butler, 30/8/2012; Joan Raw- son, 19/8/2013.
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE AND RISE IN GLORY
Bible Readings July Sunday The Fifth Sunday Wisdom Ch1 v13-15; Ch2 v23-24 1st July after Trinity 2 Corinthians Ch8 v7-15 Mark Ch5 v21-43 Sunday The Sixth Sunday Ezekiel Ch2 v1-5 8th July after Trinity 2 Corinthians Ch12 v2-10 Mark Ch6 v1-13 Sunday The Seventh Sunday Amos Ch7 v7-15 15th July after Trinity Ephesians Ch1 v3-14 Mark Ch6 v14-29 Sunday The Eighth Sunday Song of Solomon Ch3 v1-4 22 July after Trinity 2 Corinthians Ch5 v14-17 John Ch20 v1-2, 11-18 Sunday The Ninth Sunday 2 Kings Ch4 v42-44 29th July after Trinity Ephesians Ch3 v14-21 John Ch6 v1-21
Bible Readings August Sunday The Tenth Sunday Exodus Ch16 v2-4, 9-15 5th August after Trinity Ephesians Ch4 v1-6 John Ch6 v24-35 Sunday The Eleventh Sunday 1 Kings Ch19 v4-8 12th August after Trinity Ephesians Ch4 v25-Ch5 v2 John Ch6 v35, 41-51 Sunday The Twelfth Sunday Proverbs Ch9 v1-6 19th August after Trinity Ephesians Ch5 v15-20 John Ch6 v51-58 Sunday The Thirteenth Sunday Joshua Ch24 v1-2a, 14-18 26th August after Trinity Ephesians Ch6 v10-20
John Ch6 v56-69
Hymns and Liturgical Music July
Sunday 1st July 8th July 15th July 22nd July 29th July
11.00am Trinity 5 Trinity 6 Trinity 7 Trinity 8 Trinity 9
Sung Mass
Hymn 385 486 393 457 C.22
Proper 697 698 699 700 701 Offertory 294 354 103 333 296 Communion 299 357 S.44 481 276 (2nd tune) Post- 378 466 391 113 368 Communion 9.30am 385 354 391 374 368 Said Mass S.29 486 MP790 237 MP678
Hymns and Liturgical Music August
Sunday 5th August 12th August 19th August 26th August 11.00am Trinity 10 Trinity 11 Trinity 12 Trinity 13 Sung Mass Hymn 234 374 232 449 Proper 702 703 704 705 Offertory 352 185 473 336 (2nd tune) Communion 308 77 467 305 Post- 178 186 339 434 Communion 9.30am 234 374 339 453 Said Mass S.8 186 MP414 S.2
Parish Registers
Baptisms None
Weddings None
Funerals Keith Roderick Parkyn - 30/05/2018 Alfred Paul Le Huray - 01/06/2018 Just a little reminder about our mission partners
Every 12 minutes, a Mission Aviation Fellowship airplane takes off or lands in a remote location.
Every flight begins with prayer (praying pilots!).
When we help ‘fuel’ the ministry (fuel being their biggest expense), hope is delivered to isolated people around the world. That hope could look like a medical evacuation, disaster relief, assistance to the World Health Organisation in fighting the Ebola outbreak, or translated Bibles delivered to a remote village. See Ann Goss for further details.
The Tumaini Fund can always use financial contributions, but they can also: whte school shirts, black school shoes, English dictionaries and atlases, footballs, scissors and sewing supplies, cotton or nylon thread, wool, buttons, cotton fabric and carpentry tools in good condition. See Anne Lemaitre for further details.
Guilds, Clubs & Activities at St Stephen’s
Lesley Le Huray Wednesday Community Centre RAINBOWS Tel: 254333 4.00pm – 5.00pm 5—7 years old Tamara Beach Wednesday Community Centre BROWNIES Tel: 07911 711052 5.00pm - 6.30pm 7 – 10 years old Debbie Robillard Tel: 714850 + 07911 Friday Community Centre GUIDES 132440 6.00pm – 7.30pm 10 – 14 years old [email protected] 1st VICTORIA Beavers Pierre Woodland Community Centre SEA SCOUT Monday Tel: 722210 6 – 8 years old GROUP 5.30pm - 6.45pm Cubs Paula Woodland Community Centre Group Scout Monday Tel: 722210 8 – 10 years old Leader 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Sea Scouts Rosalyne Julie Hutchins Community Centre Wednesday Le Huray Mob: 07781 430700 10 – 14 years old Tel: 257939 7.00pm – 9.00pm Andrea Bateman SUNDAY CLUB andrea.batement@yahoo. Sunday 9.30am Church Vestry co.uk Fr John Moore YOUTH ALIVE! As arranged Various venues Tel: 720268 ST STEPHEN’S Marg Kaines Church As arranged GUILD Tel: 254858 ‘housekeeping’ SERVERS Info: Guild of the Tony Kaines Monthly www.GSSonline.org Servants of the Tel: 254858 See notice board .uk Sanctuary SOCIAL Tony Goss EVENTS As arranged St Stephen’s Vestry Tel: 266214 COMMITTEE Steph Dragun ST STEPHEN’S Tel: 255654 As arranged Community Centre PLAYERS [email protected]
Copy deadline for the September Parish Magazine will be Friday 24th August 2018 Contributions are gratefully accepted and can be sent to [email protected]
ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH Vicar The Reverend Fr John Moore BA, MBA, MA, DHECT St Stephen’s Vicarage ▪ Les Gravées ▪ St Peter Port ▪ Guernsey ▪ GY1 1RN Tel: 01481 720268 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://st-stephens-guernsey.org
Honorary Assistant Priests The Very Reverend Canon Fr Marc Trickey The Reverend Fr Leslie Craske
Vicar’s Warden David Le Lièvre Tel: 255492 People’s Warden Tony Kaines Tel: 254858 Secretary (APCC) Mary-Carol Gales Tel: 712434 Interim Treasurer Tony Kaines Tel: 254858 Stewardship Officer Katherine Lau Tel: 233207 Safeguarding Officer Steph Dragun Tel: 255654 Director of Music Felicity Millard Tel: 725660 Community Centre Tony & Diana Renouf Tel: 711701 Flower Contacts Iris Dhanji Tel: 256528 Ann Goss Tel: 266214 Helping Hands David & Annie Peatfield Tel: 730688 Magazine Editor Claudia Moore Tel: 720268
SUNDAY MASSES
9.30am Said Mass with Family Ministry 11.00am Sung Mass with Sermon
WEEKDAY MASSES
Tuesday 11.00am The Book of Common Prayer Wednesday 7.00pm Common Worship Friday 7.00pm Common Worship