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The Pocklington Parish Magazine THE POCKLINGTON PARISH MAGAZINE WELCOME TO All SAINTS CHURCH, POCKLINGTON Let there be Light! October 2019 £1 THE POCKLINGTON GROUP OF PARISHES The Combined Benefices of Pocklington Wold and Londesborough Wold Ministry Team Clergy Vicar-vacancy - with welcome assistance from the following retired clergy who have the Archbishop’s Permission to Officiate (PTO) Revd Shelagh Jones 01430 871612 Revd Les Slow 303888 Revd Tony Burdon 304290 Revd Pam Burdon 304290 Revd Canon Rodney Nicholson 01430 650271 Deacon Revd Bronnie Broadhurst 307479 Readers Mr Mike Bailey 01430 873318 Mr David Rumbelow 306056 Mr Brian Snelson 302206 Mrs Pam Dean 303278 Mrs Barbara Myerscough 303331 Mrs Annie Harrison (in training) 01377 288070 Recognised Parish Assistants W = Worship P= Pastoral Dr Brian James 01377 288148 W Mrs Joy Hadley 306655 W/P Mrs Freda Bailey 01430 873318 W/P Mrs Lyn Stanton 302073 P Pastoral Team: Coordinator: Revd Bronnie Broadhurst tel 307479 Mrs Lyn Stanton, Mr David Rumbelow, Mrs Joy Hadley, Revd Canon Rodney Nicholson Revd Shelagh Jones, Mrs Pam Dean Parish Visitors: Pat Herbert, Sheila Waller, Annie Harrison, Louis Taylor, Frankie Taylor, Peter Brooke Group Safeguarding Representative: Revd Les Slow 303888 South Wold Deanery Synod Representatives: Revd Bronnie Broadhurst, Heather Young 2 Members of the Pocklington Parochial Church Council: Hilary Slow, Nigel Laws, David Brown, Ian Ryder, Louis Taylor, Kath Gilbank, Lyn Stanton, Carol Taylor, Karen Hoop, Polly Warcup, Heather Young, Jill Kemmenoe Pocklington Group of Churches Pastoral Team The Pastoral Team is available to visit the bereaved, those who are ill, the housebound, or anyone who would like someone to talk to .This is an important part of the Church’s ministry and mission but we can only visit those we know about. So if you, or anyone you know, would welcome a visit from a member of the church family, please contact us and we will arrange for a member of the Pastoral Team to visit. Church Wardens: St Giles, Burnby Mr C Soukup 306154 Mr J Hewitt 302622 St Ethelburga, Gt Givendale Mrs M Stephens 01262 678153 St Martin, Hayton Mrs E Thackray 304317 St Mary, Huggate Mrs R Braithwaite 01377 288422 Mrs S Dale 01377 288233 All Saints, Londesborough Mrs J Fletcher 01430 873554 St Margaret, Millington Mrs S Sheard 304783 St James, Nunburnholme Dr A Henworth 740915 All Saints, Pocklington Mr N Laws 304307 Mrs H Slow 303888 All Saints, Shiptonthorpe Mrs F Bailey 01430 873318 3 Is Harvest the wrong name? by Rodney Nicholson Harvest Festival might be seen as an old fashioned idea. Yes, a few gardeners bring their marrows and carrots to church as a welcome decoration and a reminder of the fruits of the earth. In general, however, we do not depend on our allotments but replenish our fruit and vegetables from the greengrocer, farm shop or, more probably the supermarket. Yet we still need that reminder that, just as our body needs the life within it to heal a wound, so without the force of nature, which we believe to come from God, crops in the fields will never grow, in spite of the best agricultural machinery available. For years now, most churches have not filled their window ledges and empty spaces with apples and other fresh but perishable food. Instead they have asked for tins and packets to pass on to the local food bank or homelessness centre. The tins don’t smell as nice as the fruit but they are much more practicable. Alongside that, our more modern harvest hymns and prayers include a focus on the hungry and oppressed, which is right. It would be hypocritical to celebrate the material plenty which most of us enjoy without responding to the needs of a hungry and war-torn world. Another emphasis of harvest today is protecting this good earth for future generations. The harvest displays are comparatively unimportant when compared with the stark reality that Greenland is melting and the sea levels are rising. In other words, climate change and harvest festival are inseparable, so that Greta Thunberg, the schoolgirl activist, should be a key figure in all harvest thanksgivings. Is Harvest, then, the wrong name? For a few years there has been the suggestion that churches hold a Season of Creation or Creationtide, just we have the Advent or Easter seasons. If we really believe in God the creator, maybe we should acknowledge this great conviction by something bigger than a traditional harvest festival. The suggestion – from the European Christian Environment Network – urges churches to adopt a Time for Creation, stretching from 1st September to the second Sunday in October, with 4th October being the Feast of St Francis. I first heard the idea from an Australian preacher when on holiday in Northumberland seven years ago. A Season of Creation would give time for sermons and themes on, for example, “Did God make everything out of nothing?” “Who exactly are we?” “Why hurricanes in a perfect world?” “A Christian attitude to animals – will they be in heaven?” “The importance of going green” and much more. This would cover more ground than is possible in a single harvest service. Just as we believe in sin and redemption, so we give equal emphasis, hopefully, to the glory of creation. The Bible begins with two different accounts of how God made the world – written from different standpoints – and ends with God’s new creation at the end of time. We live in gratitude and look forward in hope. Yours in Christ, Rodney Nicholson Welcoming Barbara as our new Reader by Rodney Nicholson A good number of people supported Barbara Myerscough in York Minster on Saturday 7th September when she and six others across the diocese were admitted and licensed as Readers. Some church members expressed their regret at not being able to attend but added their good wishes and greetings cards. The following morning Canon Charlie Allen, guest celebrant and preacher, welcomed Barbara and invited an applause for her. Those who came were glad to have taken part in what was an uplifting licensing service. On the way to the Minster church members kept meeting one another, and this gave a sense of pilgrimage as we travelled together for the big occasion. Led by the Archbishop, with all the other bishops present, the service was held in the Minster chancel which holds about 500 people. Geoff Hollingsworth, our last vicar, came with Marilyn to support Barbara. It was his first service since falling ill and they were both delighted to be there. Mounting and descending the sanctuary steps to receive Communion was a bit of a challenge for Geoff but Marilyn was there for support. Caroline Pinchbeck, our much- appreciated area dean, also took the time to be present. In his sermon Archbishop Sentamu said to the Readers, “However high is your view of Jesus, go even higher.” Barbara aimed to put this into practice in her first sermons as Reader at Hayton and Nunburnholme eight days later when she preached movingly about the God who searches for the lost. The parables of the lost coin and the lost sheep gave scope for some humour as well as Barbara’s own testimony about God’s call on her own life. Tea/coffee and a cake were laid on in the chapter house after the service, with the Ven Samantha Rushton, the Warden of Readers and newly appointed Archdeacon of York helping to pour out the drinks. I haven’t noticed male archdeacons doing that! Simon our newest incumbent by Rodney Nicholson The Revd Simon Geraint Pritchard was instituted Rector of the Stamford Bridge group of parishes by Bishop John on Thursday 12th September. A coach brought twenty or so of Simon’s former parishioners from Wigan, causing Bishop John to joke about the Wigan wagon. They were clearly very sad to lose him, a comment which speaks well of the quality of Simon’s ministry. In the front pew were Simons parents and his brother Jonathan, who was ordained the day after him in 2000 and is now a priest in Keighley. During the service various church members and representatives of local organisations, including the Mothers Union, welcomed Simon and his wife Linda and adult sons, Thomas and Mark. After a vacancy of fifteen months (some benefices have been known to be longer!) the people of Stamford Bridge and Catton, not forgetting Scrayingham, are glad to have their new rector. Significantly, Bishop John brought the Associate Priest, Maggy Ellison, and the two Readers, Lucy Lawson and Wendy Macfarlane, with Simon, to the altar for prayer at the end of the service, making the point that they were a ministry team. Gone are the days when a vicar or rector is a “one man band”. We wish Simon and his family well. 5 The Reader by Barbara Myerscough It didn't feel real. I had followed God's call for more than 15 years and here I was, just after 9am on 7th September, 2019, carrying my robes and being let into York Minster to join my friends, those who had trained with me, to robe and begin the process that would admit me as a Reader in the Church of England and Licence me as a Reader in the Benefice of Pocklington Wold held in plurality with Londesborough Wold. We had a rehearsal in the choir with Revd Peter Moger, Canon Precentor of York Minster, Revd Sam Rushton, Warden of Readers and Lynn Comer, who is a Reader and the head of training at the York School of Ministry. We then had a little free time before we would make our promises to the Archbishop, who was accompanied by his chaplain and the three Suffragen Bishops.
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