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August 2020 MONTHLY MAGAZINE MARSTON MAGNA AND RIMPTON 1 THE PARISHES OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MARSTON MAGNA and RIMPTON www.marstonmagnachurch.org.uk RECTOR. Revd. Barbara Stanton [email protected] Tel: 850745 The Rectory, Camel Street, Marston Magna, BA22 8DD (To whom all enquiries should be made) EDITOR: Samuel David Crabb [email protected] Tel: 850274 Wickham Farm, Marston Magna RIMPTON CONTACT Nicola Benbow, Ash House, Rimpton [email protected] Tel: 850434 MARSTON MAGNA CONTACT Molly Crabb, Wickham Farm, Marston Magna [email protected] Tel: 850274 RIMPTON: Normally every Sunday 10.45am, with Holy Communion on 1st Sunday each month. Morning Worship and Morning Prayer on the 2nd and 4th Sundays. The 3rd Sunday Communion is either at Rimpton or Marston. MARSTON MAGNA: Normally every Sunday 9.30 am, with Parish Communion on the 1st Sunday each month, and Morning Prayer on the 2nd and 4th Sundays. The 3rd Sunday Communion is at either Marston Magna or Rimpton. CHURCH OFFICERS RIMPTON MARSTON MAGNA CHURCH WARDENS Mrs H. J. Stephens, Home Farm Cottage 851860 Mrs M L Crabb, Wickham Farm Tel: 850274 Mr J Tricker (Acting) Lessenden 850922 Mr K N Field, 2 Homefield Court Tel: 850705 TREASURERS Mrs Pam Hopkins, Ash Cottage, Marston Magna 850949 Mr Hugh Privett, The Manor Tel: 850294 P.C.C. SECRETARIES Mrs. M Green, Lark Rise, Woodhouse Lane 01963 220943 Mrs B Field, 2 Homefield Court Tel: 850705 ORGANISTS Mr Stephen Suttle, 4 Cooper's Barns, MM 850167 Mr Hugh Privett, The Manor Tel: 850294 CAPTAIN of BELL-RINGERS Mrs Caroline Baillie, Ginaville Tel: 850128 CHURCH ROTAS MARSTON MAGNA Flower/Church Cleaning Sidesmen/Readers Mrs M L Crabb, Wickham Farm Tel: 850274 Mr. Richard Venning Park Farm Tel: 851104 RIMPTON Flower Rota/Brass Cleaning Church Cleaning Mrs M Le Hardy Tel: 850212 Mrs Green Tel: 01963 220943 THIS MAGAZINE IS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE TO EVERY HOUSE IN THE TWO PARISHES AND IS PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST DAY OF EACH MONTH. MATERIAL SHOULD BE SENT TO THE RIMPTON AND MARSTON MAGNA CONTACTS NOT LATER THAN THE 20TH OF EACH MONTH. IT IS PRINTED ON THE 26th MONTHLY. VOLUNTARY DONATIONS TOWARDS PRODUCTION COSTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME THE MAGAZINE IS ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE AT marstonmagnaparish.co.uk AND AT rimpton.net 2 THE RECTORY August 2020 Dear All How good it is to report that we are gradually making the first steps out of lockdown. There have been services in the four largest churches. Please look carefully at the times. We will have less people to lead services so there will be only three services in a four-week month for Marston and Rimpton and the usual one for Chilton Cantelo. As no more than 30 people are allowed to come at present, to allow social distancing, there will be no Benefice Services. Of course, vulnerable people still need to be protected and should still stay at home. The Churches will still not be open during the week as this allows the 72 hours decontamination time between services. The Cleaning Rota will now be even more important. This seems a good time to thank all those who clean the churches and to Hugh and Jane Privet who have been getting the books and jig saws etc out twice a week during the lock down. This will not happen anymore as people are free to go to the shops. Thank you also to Morag Le Hardy and Caroline Kirkpatrick who, with others, have kept Rimpton Church porch looking so beautiful and welcoming. There is even cushion for anyone who wants to sit there for a few minutes’ peace and quiet. All this makes me feel far more hopeful. Watching the news, the other day- I should have had a pencil and paper handy-as two very contrasting people mentioned hope. Boris Johnson, hopeful of things returning to something resembling normality by Christmas and Sir Tom, just knighted by the Queen with her father's sword. His hoped-for small amount of money for the NHS being raised, becoming a huge amount. Having celebrated VE very successfully in our villages, in spite of lockdown, it made me thing of George V1. In some ways he as well as Winston Churchill were beacons of hope during those war time years. VJ Day will come in August, and no doubt more celebrations and sadness in remembering the prisoners of war and the so- called forgotten army who fought in the Far East and the victims of the atomic bombs. Hope is a universal human experience. There is hope a person feels for the future. In Christian spirituality there should be a hopeful attitude to our lives, our future and that of the universe. It goes alongside faith and love. It is something about faith in trusting in God. Hope is closely linked with love because God in his love involved himself in the world through his son, in his death and resurrection, gives hope in the possibilities of eternal life. With my love and prayers for you all in this Benefice and for an end to this pandemic Revd. Barbara 01935 850745 [email protected]. CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN MUDFORD A Café every Thursday morning, starting at 10 am to 12 noon in the Village Hall. This is now suspended. A service every Sunday starting at 11 a.m. Not until further notice. CHURCH OF ST. JAMES, CHILTON CANTELO. A Café the first Saturday morning every month, from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon in the church. This is suspended. A Service the second Sunday every month, starting at 9.30 a.m. Not until further notice. ST MARY THE VIRGIN, RIMPTON - June 2020 There will be three services a month at Rimpton Church, please see page 4 for details. During these first weeks of resuming services. No rotas are in place. HS Friday Cafe at Marston Magna Village Hall Following the Government’s recommendation that social gatherings be restricted it has been decided to suspend the Village Café until further notice. Thank you for all your past support and look forward to seeing you in the not too distant future. Beryl and Kenneth Field 3 CALENDAR OF SERVICES August 2020 SUNDAY 2nd August WHITE VIII AFTER TRINITY MARSTON MAGNA 9.30 am Holy Communion Reader: TBA Sidesman: TBA RIMPTON No Service. Reader: SUNDAY 9th August GREEN IX AFTER TRINITY MARSTON MAGNA No Service Reader: Sidesman: RIMPTON 10.45 am Morning Worship Reader: TBA SUNDAY 16th August GREEN X AFTER TRINITY MARSTON MAGNA 9.30 am Holy Communion Reader: TBA Sidesman: TBA RIMPTON 10.45 am Holy Communion Reader TBA SUNDAY 23rd August GREEN XI AFTER TRINITY MARSTON MAGNA 9.30 am Morning Worship Reader: TBA Sidesman: TBA RIMPTON No Service Readers: SUNDAY 30th August GREEN XII AFTER TRINITY MARSTON MAGNA 9.30 am Holy Communion Reader: TBA Sidesman: TBA RIMPTON 10.45 am Holy Communion Readers: TBA MARSTON MAGNA Church Cleaning Church Flowers Locking Up AUGUST 2020 High Altar CHURCH WILL BE LOCKED OPEN ONLY FOR SERVICES RIMPTON Church Cleaning Church Flowers Locking Up AUGUST 2020 CHURCH WILL BE LOCKED High Altar OPEN ONLY FOR SERVICES STUDY GROUPS Marston/Rimpton Home Group The Group will not be meeting now. Hopefully, they will meet again soon, please contact Richard Gardner on 850127 for advice and help on this. HS 4 Letter from the Right Reverend Ruth THE RAIN REPORT Worsley, Bishop of Taunton For Parish Newsletters – August 2020 Following an exceptionally dry May, June saw a compete change around. There were 16 wet days Time for a rest with rainfall totalling 95 mms (3 ¾ inches), well above the June average of 61 mms (2 ½ inches). I am tired! I do not know about you. And yet I am getting up later and going to bed earlier than The middle section of the month saw the bulk of I was accustomed to before the pandemic struck. rain with 10 wet days out of 12 and 70 mms (2 ¾ I am travelling less, indeed I still have an almost inches) of rainfall. There were 2 very wet days with full tank of petrol and have had to call out the AA 36 mms (1 ½ inches) falling over the 18thand 19th. three times because the battery has died! I am So much for flaming June. at home principally, but my working day has got fuller and more demanding as time has gone on. The wettest June I have recorded was 2012 with 139 mms (5 ¼ inches) and the driest 2018 with just So, I am planning a holiday! A retreat and some 13 mms9 (½ inch). study leave. Having been ordained 24 years I have yet to have a period of sabbatical and I am Ricky Gibbs. looking forward to it! It is not going to take the form I would have planned. There will not be the Online and Virtual Church Services opportunity of a trip overseas or a residential conference to attend, but there will be plenty of Just because no one can worship with others does time for family, rest, reading and reflection. not mean worship cannot take place. St John's Yeovil are still streaming their service at 10.30 am What about you? I know some of you might be each Sunday morning, access is through their feeling that our children have had one big holiday website www.sjyeovil.co.uk at home since lockdown but I can assure you that they, their parents and their teachers have all The BBC on Long Wave or DAB have a daily been working hard to ensure that learning can service at 9.45 am on weekdays.